On Friday, 24 October 2014 12:38:55 UTC+1, Rod Speed wrote:
whisky-dave wrote
Rod Speed wrote
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Rod Speed wrote

Yes, but you do know that DIY done properly has to be
cheaper than paying someone else to do the same work.

Doesn;t have to be, depends on the DIY.

You'd have to be completely hopeless at DIY for it not to be.

Do you have a gas safe cert. ?


If I want a tree cut down I could do it myself,
if I had the tools the ladders the PPE and the
skills, but I haven't so I'd get a 'man' in to do it.

More fool you. It costs peanuts to get what you need at
garage/yard sales and there is **** all skill involved at all.

You really are an idiot.
If you want to cut a tree down you need to ask the council in case it's listed or otherwise protected.
If you have a brain you want to buy all the correct euipment or at least hire it, and that's not cheap, you'd have top get insurance too.

I designed and build my whole house on a bare block of
land and taught myself to weld because I prefer steel over
wood for everything from tables to gates and the bulk of
the house structure.

Have you taken up dentistry too.



Maybe I could have replaced the roof,

No maybe about it in my case, I know I can
because I did all that myself personally too.

well good for you.


but I don't have any scaffolding

You don't need any scaffolding, I didn't have any.

When I got my roof done it was a legal requirment.
But of course you could break the H&S rules I suppose.
I bet you never even used PPE and probbaly worked alone.


When I built my own house from scratch,

so you didn;t actually buid it yourself you had help.
Why didn;t yuo do it yourself as you said.


that triggered a bit of a rash of that with
quite a few of my mates and we did that
with each other's houses.

so you have to help out your mates how many years have you been doing that for.


The worst of the technoklutzes just did the
easiest stuff,

so that technoklutze mate of yours did he build his own house too ?

in one case one of them quite
literally painted the outside of the concrete
block place with a broom and a bucket of paint.

Was that because you were to stupid to do it as I thought you did the DIY yourself. When a mate of mine replaced my meter tails I did NOT cliam to do thaqt MYSELF as a DIY project, getting someone else to do yuor DIY is not you doing your DIY.
Did you design your own house too, or did a friend do it.



so I got someone in to do it.

More fool you.

why you got someone to paint your concrete why when you can do it yuorself.?


Same with the 'gas leak' couldn;t DIY.

I've never got anyone to do anything like that.

So if you had a gas leak you'd do nothing about it.



I bet it wouldn't if you know what you are doing and can DIY the
rewiring.

and if you can't or don't have the neccessary certificates you're breaking
the law.

I don't give a flying red **** about the law.

well that'sobvious isn;t it you don;t care about the legality of drugs
you don;t even mind telling peole how to commit suicide fropm helium.
So it's not suprise you'd break H&S regualtions.


I got a licensed electrician to claim he had done the work.

So that was a lie then wasnt; it.


The only quibble he had with the wiring I did entirely myself
was that it was too neatly done and that no electrician would
have done it like that.

yeah right, I bet he told you you smelt nice too.




Yep, most of my mates did both.

So you didn't DO IT YOURSELF then did you.



I didn't with the solar panels because I had decided that
with the absolutely certain change of govt we were going
to see, that they would pull the plug on the 60c/KWH gross
feed in tariff where you get paid that even if you use that
electricity yourself. In fact they did pull the plug on that
when the govt did change, and you now only get 2c instead.

But they caved in with those who had got their panels
installed before change of govt and they still get the 60c.

and a helipad but few DIY peole have all rthe skills neccessary.

Its even easier to do pools and solar panels than the house.

Helipads in spades, nothing special about them at all.

aprt from the approval of teh aviation authorities not that you or yuor mates would care.


I don;t know anyone that is gas safe,

You don't need to be when doing work on your own house.

YES YOU DO.
you really are an idiot and a dangerous one.