It is tempting. I have found in my personal life that even things I would love to do and am capable of doing myself, sometimes it is better just to hire out. Because there are people that can a) do it better and b) can do it faster than me. I already put in my 40+ hours a week at my job. Finding the time to work on bigger projects at home is not easy or even feasible depending on a person's situation. If the wife wants a bathroom now, she might not be ok with the dawdling around working on it for an hour here or an hour there while the house is all partially a construction zone and then finally having the bathroom a year or two later than when she wanted it.
That's my problem, but it causes me a lot of discomfort paying for things that I know I can do myself. As I get older though, doing things myself might cause me more discomfort lol.
Same. I don't mind the hard work aspect, but if it is just awful work, or its complicated enough I might make things worse, then I am out.
Yeah, on some of the more complex stuff, I've ended up spending half of what I saved on tools. Not that having a lot of tools is a bad thing, but some of those more specialized tools will likely never be used again.
That guy is funny. "Next time you're in a public bathroom, **** with the door open. Be a man." Haha. Stuff like that.
I bet A LOT of us have tile saws from doing backsplash once.
I'm fortunate there- I work for a company that also installs tile (I installed wood and LVP), so I have been able to check out all those tools. It's generally plumbing and appliance repair that has gotten me a lot of weird tools.
I have a tool rental place, and I try to use that before buying a specialized tool.
