Wow !! From the 1st 2 replies I think we've discovered an important fact about family relations and predicting who can rebuild a toilet and who cannot..
Probably if you're dad was expecting too much interest from a sub teen about hardware and power tools and "doing it right" -- it just might sour the whole thing.. For the record -- Dads are RARELY having a lot of fun fixing stuff around the house and kids pick up on that...
Or rather they enjoy the RESULTS -- but from the outside -- LOOKS like they are being punished into doing the jobs.. LOL...
Actually, I like doing stuff. Small jobs or big ones. I've redone bathrooms, kitchens, ran plumbing, electrical and gas, reworked ceiling lighting schemes in rooms, put in a dock, wired up electrical and installed sprinker systems outside, built a slide for the kid's pool this summer that was killer. Just about anything. Helped my brother last weekend dig up and fix a broken water line from his well into his house.
Funny story is that it isn't me doing a lot of this work. I plan it, normally CAD out the drawings for more complex jobs, develop a BOM, watch a couple of Youtube videos to make sure I'm not missing something, and get the materials.
After that Contractor Billy takes over. He does the vast majority of the work.
Contractor Billy drinks Miller beer pretty much endlessly and works until the beer or the light runs out. Even my wife at this point is aware of this phenomenon and calls this alter ego Contractor Billy; and when she wants something done she stocks the fridge.
The man cannot be stopped, as long as the beer holds out....
Lol.
