What makes home designing and architecture a skilled job? You don’t need to earn an answer. It is a pretty simple one. There are a lot of nuances hidden in the jobs and only the experts might know the way to the pearl. So, if TV shows encourage you to take the home renovation plunge yourself, be guarded! For all you know your best intent can fall flat on its face. Let me just give you 4 good reasons when you should not go the DIY way with home improvement projects.
Are you good enough to undertake the project?
Allow me to begin by asking if you can paint your home like a professional painter? Are you handling edge pads perfectly at ceiling edges? Are you rolling when you should brush and vice versa? Are you doing the surface preparation effectively?
Alright, let us not talk about painting. Let’s digress to another aspect of DIY home renovation: preparation of deck. So, are you bolting the beams to the side of the deck even when it clearly isn’t a low level deck? Are you using incorrect riser heights for stairs?
The point I am trying to make is elementary. Are you not falling into the trap of assuming that DIY is a pretty smooth mission? Because unless you are armed with adequate knowhow (and we always overrate ourselves), you will find a hundred insurmountable odds in the way.
Have knowledgeable people advised you against it?
Take a cue from a knowledgeable person. If he or she thinks that your scope of work warrants a professional hand, do not throw away the advice in the garbage bin. In time, you will understand, and at a fair cost, that the advice was pretty meaningful.
Have you noted the Opportunity Cost?
Judge your Opportunity Cost. May be you are good with DIY home renovation projects. I will concede that there is a level below expert level which can suffice for certain home improvement projects and a few homeowners can definitely make the cut. But, have you figured out the Opportunity Cost here. The time you spend may keep you away from other revenue-earning objectives. So do you stand to gain more through the given home improvement project than you stand to lose by missing out on other areas of earning revenue.
Does the job involve anything electrical?
If your project involves electrical work, I will be unequivocal in suggesting that you spare DIY. Electricity is not a colleague of ours that we can pat on the shoulder. It is no fun exercise and can have serious, even fatal, implications. So, unless the whole task does not include anything more than putting a bulb in the socket, use the services of a professional.
Home is our most familiar territory and thus we feel we can always be on the top of the home improvement projects. Sadly, the gap between what we think our ability is and what our actual ability turns out to be may be a yawning one.
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