Do you do house DIY tasks yourself or get a professional to do it or a mix of both?

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Do you do house DIY tasks yourself or get a professional to do it or a mix of both?

If it's a mix of both - which do you get the professional to do and which do you do yourself as DIY? Why/why not?

I also live with an (ex) tradesman who can do everything brilliantly, but only in his own good time (I've been waiting since July to have my living room ceiling painted 😩).

Mix of both. I'll have a crack at most smallish jobs and am quite a good bodger. DH loathes DIY but also loathes spending money, so he will (eventually) have a go at slightly bigger jobs, very very slowly, bitching and moaning the whole time, after I've pointed out about 900 times that they will eventually become much bigger jobs and cost him more money if he neglects them. Properly big jobs or anything that involves going up a ladder, though, we'll get someone in. We painted our own (tiny) kitchen but got someone in when the entire hall, stairs, landing and loft room needed doing, for example. DH will (reluctantly) go up a ladder for thirty seconds to put up a new washing line, but we got someone in to paint the masonry round the upstairs windows.

Basics I do myself, plumbing etc is the remit of my landlord. I can’t afford to pay somebody to do stuff, so we make do as best we can. I’m slowly getting a set of power tools together so that some jobs are easier, and I really rather enjoy flat pack so that’s no hardship.

I do it all by myself I enjoy it. Never thought I'd be able to do it but I do ok

We do painting and decorating, tradespeople do gas, plumbing and whatnot. We're having a new kitchen put in soon and that is being done by a kitchen fitter.

We fill, sand, paint, hang doors, new door handles, hang pictures, put up shelves, DH fitted new kitchen in b2l, including the worktops. DH also laminates, fits vynal and tiles in b2l. We get electricition in for electrics and plumber for plumbing and gas Safe engineer for heating. We would get a plasterer for plastering ceiling or whole wall but if just a small hole to fill plaster it ourselves.

A mix. No one is judging as it depends on finances, time and capabilities.

DIY, always, unless there is some law against it.

We do a mix, but it causes arguments in this house because when we do it it takes ages - the trouble is OH can do most jobs & doesn't want to pay someone else to do the work.

We mostly get someone in, including for painting and decorating, curtains up, bespoke shelves made

We do virtually everything ourselves. Well we paid someone to build the extension, but apart from that the onky thing we've had professionally done in the last 30 years is the kitchen floor laid, and we weren't particularly pleased with that. We can do most things ourselves perfectly well and at a fraction of the cost of getting someone else to do it. The only disadvantage is the time, but I don't really mind that,

Literally EVERYTHING ourselves!! We have renovating a good few houses completely ourselves. The only things we ever paid for was an electrician to finish of wiring and certify, a roofer to fix the roof and that's it I think!! My dh knows how to do pretty much everything. And I'm not too bad myself 🤣

We usually DIY. I can prep, paint and wallpaper. DH can do small plumbing and electrics (within safety) as well as work with wood etc. He fitted our kitchen.
I do sometimes wish we GALMI as it's not always 100% professional finish, but it usually looks good and doing it ourselves mean we can do many more projects within the same budget.

We are currently having the exterior walls and pipework on our house painted. I could have done it, but don't really like heights - although I've been up the scaffolding platform we needed for spanning the garage roof and filled some holes left in the wall from moving pipes etc.

If I'd known I would be fine up the scaffolding we might have got it to go all round the house and I'd have painted it myself, BUT there was only a couple of hundred pounds between the cost of scaffolding for all around the house and the small stretch we needed and the cost of the painters. Well worth the difference for the professional techniques and materials they are using. And not having to do it myself as I always get covered in paint.

During the summer holidays, we will be stripping and redecorating the downstairs. I like a holiday project.

I've always been very self sufficient. I've hung wallpaper, build flat pack furniture and even plumbed in a washing machine before. Only thing I've not been confident enough to do is fitting the gas hob. I've actually just bought some decking boards to extend my decking which my DP thinks I'm mad to do alone but they've already been cut to the right length lol

I can do loads, from laying flooring to rendering walls, but i don't enjoy it. So I pay for someone else to do it.

I prefer to do most things myself but if it's cutting a tree down or something then I would get someone in to do it.

I am a live alone oldie, and do all diy jobs myself, all , except anything electrical I should have said.

I'll paint, hang things, do switches, sockets, light fittings, etc. I've wallpapered, but that was non-patterned. Patterned I'll get someone to do it, as I know I'll probably bugger that up.

I'll get a professional in to do plumbing and full on electrics, they are the professionals. Our kitchen was fitted by a professional and boy you can tell, it's spot on.

We need our bathroom re-tiled and a new radiator put in. I'm going to get someone in to do all of that. I've tiled before and was told it was a good job, but I wasn't happy as I knew where the mistakes were. They will also be way quicker and better at it than me.

DH does most things and teaches himself, so he has fitted an entire kitchen, can do electrical wiring and plastering and as good as a professional. It’s not to do with finances he just wants to know they are done well. I can do decorating and a little basic plumbing. I won’t let him do anything on the roof much to his annoyance. DH and DS are in the middle o building a second patio area.

I do the basics. Quite happy to get a small tree down, too. What frustrates me is my landlord (who let us do whatever we want in terms of decorating/the garden because it was such an absolute shit tip) is responsible for structural stuff, so we're waiting for them to sort out the awful front door that lets a howling gale through. It just needs replacing, but they need to do it!

I wouldn't enjoy living in a house where I'd done none of the work.

This thread is shaming me! We get people in for practically everything (or sometimes my dad helps). I build flat pack and put up pictures but that’s the limit. I’d like to learn to do more but we have four very young children and it’s partly that’s there’s no time (particularly at the moment when there’s no school or nursery). When I was in my 20s I happily did practical things. I feel like I’ve lost my confidence.

I do very basic practical things. I can unblock a drain or pressure wash the patio, that sort of level. I don’t mind getting dirty. Anything skilled, or requiring strength or needing a neat finish I GAMI.

My DH is completely useless about most practical things. I think it comes from being the son and brother of very skilled tradesmen. Anytime he tried something his dad or brothers would get impatient and push him aside to finish the job themselves. Eventually he gave up trying. The one thing he excels at is assembling flat pack furniture. His dad and brothers could never be arsed to read the instructions. They thought they knew best and consequently made a mess of it. DH OTOH is very patient, he reads the instructions thoroughly, lays out all the pieces and tools neatly and follows every step. Our house is full of sturdy Billy bookcases, Pax wardrobes and Malmo chests.

I won’t let him do anything on the roof much to his annoyance.

My husband used to be into rock climbing and still has all the safety gear so I'm happy for him to go up there when necessary.

We have a big garden project in the offing and he's now looking at buying an excavator. I think he's been watching too much Australian Opal Hunters.

DH and I can handle most things between us. We don’t do anything to do with gas ourselves but other stuff yes. The only things we had people in to do were building work, a complete new bathroom(for speed, individual items we can and have replaced ourselves in the past), carpet fitting (tried it ourselves in a small room and it was rubbish) and new boiler and radiators. We installed our own kitchen, including tiles, plumbing and electrics; we do all our own decorating; I bought a new flush mechanism and fitted it to one of our toilets just before lockdown.

My Dad taught me lots of house maintenance stuff and I’ve taught DH....