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Hot take: hitting 100 home repairs in a year means you're either really handy or really bad at maintenance
Honestly, I kept a log of every DIY fix in my 1920s bungalow near Denver this past year and I hit exactly 102 projects. Half were small stuff like patching plaster cracks and tightening loose door hinges, but the other half were bigger like replacing a corroded water heater line and redoing a bathroom vent. Tbh, it made me wonder if I'm just unlucky with an old house or if I'm actually making progress by catching problems early. Ngl, I feel like hitting that number means I'm either in control of my home or it's falling apart faster than I can fix it. Which side do you land on with your own repair counts? Does a high number mean you're proactive or just always fixing stuff that breaks?
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leo6035d agoMost Upvoted
My buddy Kyle has a house from the 70s in the suburbs and last year he told me he did like 80 something repairs. He was all proud of himself for being proactive until his basement flooded and he realized he'd been ignoring the crack in the foundation for months. So it seems like you can have a high number and still miss the big stuff, you know? Maybe it's just me but I think those old houses always have something going on, it's like they talk to you through creaks and leaks.
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sage_rodriguez5d ago
Yeah man, I get what you're saying @leo603 but I gotta disagree a bit. Kyle fixing 80 small things is great, he just picked the wrong one to skip. Old houses do have a voice but it's not always obvious which creak means 'foundation crack' and which means 'loose floorboard'. You can be super proactive and still miss the big one if you don't know what you're looking at. My neighbor had a 50s house and patched everything except the roof flashing, then got water damage from a storm. So it's not the number of repairs, it's knowing which ones actually matter.
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