How many f you do your own work around the house like renovations and things like that? I am asking because I have been renovation my condo in Florida with my parents and brother and I wanted to know who else does it them selves. Its normal to do all the work yourself in my culture but when ever I tell my other friends they always ask me "why don't you hire a contractor?"
Agreed!! I hate, hate painting, staining & mudding. I'll hang drywall though. Luckily, most of the interior work around here is log or tongue & groove. I try and do everything I can around the resort here. Sometimes I even get to play with heavy machinery
With the work I was doing, I was excited and happy to start dry wall and painting lol. After this reno I refuse to ever use wall paper or have to take it down.
I'll dabble with fixing stuff and & DIY projects. I'll admit it's because I'm cheap. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I do some stuff. In the foreclosure we bought I painted, did put up some new trim and just rebuilt the deck stairs a few days ago.
I work construction, so its safe to say that I do my own work I completely remodeled my bedroom, the downstairs living room, built a 16x32 deer processing/beer drinking shed, stuff like that. http://forums.bowhunting.com/bowhunting-talk/25886-my-deer-processing-shed.html http://forums.bowhunting.com/water-cooler/56487-my-latest-home-project.html
I built two rooms for the kids and roofed in my front porch. Put a metal roof on my house. Built a walk in closet. I think i'm going to put vinyl siding on this summer. May change out some windows while i'm at it, depending on how much money I spend on hunting stuff.
"I" do most of our renovations. And my "I", I mean my Dad, who owned his own contractor business for 35 years. I help.
I tackle most inside jobs. Bathroom remodels, dry wall, painting (I don't mind painting at all), flooring as long as its easy to install stuff. I don't deal with exteriors too much and the worst thing that I will not ever touch again is door replacement.
Framing and drywalling - Me Mudding - hired out Painting - my wife Electric & Plumbing - hired out Flooring - Me
Have never learned to do any type of handyman work - Never really had a house to learn or do things with my dad either, we always lived in a trailer that didn't need many repairs. Guess I will learn throughout life though!
I do some/most of the handy work. But I'll pay someone to drywall the inside of the house and mudd it. I also plan on paying someone to paint the house in 2 years, mostly cause im afraid of heights and lazy. same with the shingles in 3 years. wayyyyyy to steep for this fat boy! Wish ****ie Tunes lived closer!!!
