84 per cent of Millennials admit they can’t change a light bulb or know any DIY skills, a poll reveals
Almost three quarters of the younger generation are afraid of assembling flatpacked furniture and 74 per cent said they'd rather pay someone else to do it.
A STAGGERING 84 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds admit they do not know how to change a light bulb.
And almost three-quarters of the younger generation are too scared to assemble flatpack furniture, a poll reveals.
Seventy-four per cent of them admit they would rather pay someone else to do it because they would only “muck it up”.
More than one in eight millennials cannot clean a car — and almost as many do not have the basic DIY skills to paint a shed.
Three-quarters can’t defrost a kitchen freezer — and 67 per cent lack the confidence to put up a shelf.
But most scored high for tech skills in the poll by website Airtasker which connects people with tradesmen.
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Experts say youngsters fail to learn DIY because they live with their parents too long.
Airtasker’s Ana Vitorino said they have different goals from their mums and dads which “don’t involve bleeding a radiator”.
A THIRD of millennials cannot find their way around without a smartphone, a poll by travel agents eDreams Odigeo found.
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