Hi everyone.
I am about to sign acontract to build my new house. I was thinking to do the all cabinets, sinks, tilings, flloring, carpet, doors, led lights, by myself. What is your idea? Have you done this? Thanks
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Do the internals by myself 3Aug 18, 2019 10:14 pm My build with Inspired/ Como Homes: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=93656 Re: Do the internals by myself 7Aug 19, 2019 1:30 pm In my opinion, and watching the tradies work, it would be rare for us plebes outside the trade to be as good & as accurate as the professionals, even ignoring how much longer it would take us to do it. However, also from watching the professionals work, the fact that we'd take some pride in stuff apart from what we were currently working on makes-up for some of our ineptitude. eg. we won't think we're a hotshot painter who doesn't need drop-sheets, so we'll put drop-sheets down, and hence we won't end-up with paint splatter on the tiles. Cleaning up our messes won't be left until everything's had time to set, and the cleaning won't involve Jim's Cleaning and a pair of overseas uni students whose approach to cleaning is to just throw buckets of water all over the tiles (hence munting the bottoms of doors & skirting boards). The only thing is that sometimes you won't save that much money. Some stuff the builders get for so much less than us Mere Mortals that paying for the materials PLUS the labour PLUS the profit still turns out abrely more exxy than us doing it ourselves. You really need to price everything, before deciding what to DIY. Re: Do the internals by myself 8Aug 19, 2019 1:57 pm Minaas Hi everyone. I am about to sign acontract to build my new house. I was thinking to do the all cabinets, sinks, tilings, flloring, carpet, doors, led lights, by myself. What is your idea? Have you done this? Thanks What about the OC? 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. |