My DH is a builder, so I have spent years and years in an UN-finished house here in Vanuatu until we got ready to move back to the US last year and sold it-that is when he started working on it again! Now he's retired (sort of), I thought a rectangular ironing board would be simple-showed him many pictures and tuts on this board-took weeks of nagging to get him to get the board (I already had the material for the cover) and it still isn't done (not even started) Granted, we have been overseas for 2 months, but he had the board weeks before we left! I can totally relate-he may not be an engineer, but as a builder, I still have trouble getting what I want!