I try to do all new home repairs on our own.
- My feeling is that when hiring a professional, you are paying for someone else’s mistakes.
Everybody on a major task will make an error. Do you want to pay someone to make that mistake or make it on your own? I love the method of saving the currency & learning something in the process, however periodically doing our own work bites myself and others in the butt. I recently got heated flooring installed in our home. I got electric heated mats to go under our floorboards. The Heating & A/C business I purchased the system from estimated myself and others the furnace installation price & I decided to do it myself. I study online & the process seemed doable. I have pulled up floors before. Then you need to set the mats next to each other, hook them together & put new flooring over top. It seemed easy & possible to not make any mistakes. I am proud to say I did a good task with honestly few errors. There are a few gaps with no heated mats, but they are small. The only complaint I have is that the furnace installation took forever. I spent afternoons laboring on that furnace install & it was tedious. My back, knees & neck are still aching after the task I did. I get where people would want to hire out the heating repair because it was just awful. Some people might be willing to deliver currency to never have to go through it. If I got heated flooring again, I might consider hiring someone.