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DIY - where do you draw the line?
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Chatham-Chick
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Re: DIY - where do you draw the line?
Posted by chmlengr
Yep, that's my DH too. Except I like to tell everyone he's just too cheap to hire someone to do it...  He's so proud of himself on the money he saved doing the re-sheetrocking downstairs. I told him 2 guys could have had the entire lower level finished in 1 weekend, and for him it's taking 6 months of Sunday's to do  
LOL...I feel for ya Trish!!!
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Re: DIY - where do you draw the line?
Posted by Chatham-Chick
Posted by chmlengr
Yep, that's my DH too. Except I like to tell everyone he's just too cheap to hire someone to do it... He's so proud of himself on the money he saved doing the re-sheetrocking downstairs. I told him 2 guys could have had the entire lower level finished in 1 weekend, and for him it's taking 6 months of Sunday's to do
LOL...I feel for ya Trish!!!
me too!
My hubby does it all and he's really good thankfully. I told him that he should be a painter on the weekends (he's a chiropractor) because the walls in my house are flawless.
We did hire an electrician to upgrade our electric, and we hired a plumber when DH gutted the bathroom (for something minor but tricky), but that's it. We are planning to put down hardwood floors soon, and he wants to do it himself. I am going to insist that we get them sanded/stained by a professional though.
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| Posted 11/14/07 3:00 PM |
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betty
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Re: DIY - where do you draw the line?
DH drew the line at electrical and plumbing too. We had a 1/2 bath added and all updated electric throughout the house. We knew both a plumber and electrician so it made the decision easy.
DH basically rebuilt most of the house but when he started to hang sheetrock, he knew he needed to get someone to do it or we wouldn't move in for a year!!
I'm so proud of everythig DH did though
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| Posted 11/14/07 3:29 PM |
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LMFitz
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Re: DIY - where do you draw the line?
We've renovated 3 houses and are on to our 4th now. Basically, for our last home, we did everything except the driveway (ashphalt) and installing and finishing the wood floors. Why? Because for the floors - the time it would have taken us, the back-breaking nature of the work, and the fact that a skilled person can truly do it better was worth the money to us. We did everything else in the house - from the electrical, plumbing, windows, doors, 2 bathrooms, kitchen and roof.
This house? I'll pay someone to do the driveway and floors again - and I'll probably pay to have the backyard professionally hardscaped (multi-level....lots of retaining walls). We swapped out all windows and doors ourselves, as well as the roof. We paid someone to do the vinyl siding. What they accomplished in 3 days in the cold of the winter would have taken my husband three months.
We do the rest.
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| Posted 11/14/07 3:48 PM |
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Re: DIY - where do you draw the line?
nothing toxic (possible lead paint, extermination)....
also, no plumbing or major electrical (I'll install a chandelier, but not add an outlet to a room or wire-up an electric stove or water heater)
oh, and no tasks requiring over 80 man hours.... like replacing all the windows
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| Posted 11/14/07 11:28 PM |
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