I try to do all home repairs on my own.
My feeling is that when hiring a professional, you are paying for someone else’s mistakes.
Everybody on a major job will make an error. Do you want to pay someone to make that mistake or make it on your own? I like the idea of saving the money and learning something in the process. Sometimes doing my own work bites me in the butt. I recently got heated flooring installed in my home. I got electric heated mats to go under my floorboards. The HVAC company I bought the system from quoted me the heater installation price and I decided to do it myself. I read online and the process seemed doable. I have pulled up floors before. Then you need to set the mats next to each other, hook them together and put new flooring over top. It seemed simple and possible to not make any mistakes. I am proud to say I did a great job with very few errors. There are a few gaps with no heated mats, but they are small. The only complaint I have is that the heater installation took forever. I spent days working on that heater install and it was tedious. My back, knees and neck are still aching after the job I did. I get where people would want to hire out the heating service because it was just awful. Some people might be willing to give money to never have to go through it. If I got heated flooring again, I might consider hiring someone.