On 23/03/2016 11:22, whisky-dave wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 09:51:31 UTC, RJH wrote:
On 23/03/2016 03:39, Bill Wright wrote:
In the interests of the conservation of materials and energy, should not
DIY, especially the repair of goods, be a priority for the environmental
movement?

Bill

I do, but it needs working at.

One of the worst excesses of DIY has to be single household tool
proliferation. So, this sort of thing:

http://www.brighthub.com/environment...les/54244.aspx

DIY on its own as it stands probably wastes more than it saves.

Also, skill sharing. IMHO DIY gets bodged because the DIYer doesn't have
the time/experience to get up to speed. It often takes me three or four
times to get things even remotely right,

if it take you 4 times longer I can only assume you do it for fun. ;-)


Yep - curiously, I actually enjoy it and find it relaxing.

So why don't people get pros in... the answer is usually cost.


Not in my case, or I suspect many others. But that does bring into
question whether 'It' needs doing in the first place ;-)


whereas some things seem more
natural. So share skills:

https://www.impossible.com

(don't know anything about them, but does seem to organise the principle
of skill sharing)

Really , just seemed like an expensive place to shop.

£70 for an ipad case ! that's even more than Aple charge !

http://shop.impossible.com/collectio...hose-ipad-case


Rather missing the point - but it was more the skills exchange side of
it that I was looking at.


And then there's the issue of putting trades people out of work.

Not just trades peolpe but what of all those economic migrants looking for work or ayslum seekers who don't want benifits but want to work. :-)


Yes, that's what I meant: people working in the building trade.


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Cheers, Rob