| Are you like many partners who have a little list of | | | | repairman up the street first and prefer to pay him |
| jobs posted on the fridge for the man about the | | | | to do the job. However, many guys are handy and |
| house to do? Some of those lists are quite long and | | | | will have a go even if the results are less than |
| tend to grow every day. What is the best way to | | | | perfect. One of the main reasons that your man will |
| motivate your man to get stuck in and do a few | | | | not have a go is because he lacks the tools to do a |
| jobs around the house? There must be a motivation | | | | good job. |
| for him to want to get started and I will share one | | | | Many jobs require precision work and a handyman |
| of those motivations with you. | | | | can't do that without the right tools. Even some |
| Having been a man about the house, I have a fair | | | | tradesmen are unable to do some precision work |
| idea what it is that can keep your man away from all | | | | with out the right tools. The days of the old |
| those little repair and fix it jobs. There are always | | | | craftsmanship are just about gone. One of the |
| heaps of those little jobs and more just seem to pop | | | | handiest tools that you can get for him is the power |
| up all the time as things break and wear out. I used | | | | compound miter saw. That may sound a bit |
| to be a builder when I was young and fit so I | | | | complicated but it only an electric saw that sits on a |
| suppose my own house was a bit like the trade | | | | bench and allows the operator to make truly |
| mans curse. No matter what trade you are in the | | | | precision cuts. This will give him the accuracy to |
| jobs at home pertaining to that trade just didn't get | | | | produce something he can be proud of and so will be |
| done. I mean if you are doing something all day at | | | | more than happy to get some of those jobs out of |
| your job why would you want to come home and | | | | the way. |
| do the same stuff again. | | | | Say you wanted some sort of picture frame made |
| So I always built my own houses and we invariably | | | | out of frame molding. There is no way he will be |
| moved in before they were completely finished. That | | | | confident cutting those mitered corners by hand but |
| meant they never really got finished. If you are at | | | | with the power compound miter saw it will be a |
| work all day building stuff why would you want to do | | | | breeze. It can do many jobs from cutting accurate |
| it at the weekend too? It was bad enough just | | | | lengths of lumber to cutting any angle you need. If |
| building the place in the first place. My first real house | | | | you buy him one of these you will find it will be the |
| project was a three story monster that I tackled as | | | | center of all his home handy man work. He may |
| a young and fit starry eyed dreamer. It was a pretty | | | | even be coming to you for more jobs or is that |
| special house right on a half acre of water front with | | | | maybe a distant dream. |
| a jetty out front. I spent a whole year every | | | | These basic power compound miter saws are not |
| weekend and every night after work on my own | | | | expensive any more. You can pick up some good |
| there getting the place up to move in stage. It was a | | | | brands for just over the $100 mark which is not to |
| massive undertaking for a young fellow. | | | | bad these days. So go for it. If he has a birthday |
| So anyway, back to those jobs around the house | | | | coming up or you just like to surprise him, this will go |
| that just are not getting done. Now some guys are | | | | down really well. I know it was the backbone of all |
| handy and some guys are not. If your man is one of | | | | my wood working jobs. You will be surprised just |
| those that are not handy forget it. Nothing is going | | | | how much it will motivate him to get to work. |
| to convince him to start fixing things. He will call in the | | | | |