"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 11:58:35 UTC, Tim Watts wrote:
On 23/03/16 11:22, whisky-dave wrote:
On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 09:51:31 UTC, RJH wrote:
On 23/03/2016 03:39, Bill Wright wrote:
In the interests of the conservation of materials and energy, should
not
DIY, especially the repair of goods, be a priority for the
environmental
movement?

Bill

I do, but it needs working at.

One of the worst excesses of DIY has to be single household tool
proliferation. So, this sort of thing:

http://www.brighthub.com/environment...les/54244.aspx

DIY on its own as it stands probably wastes more than it saves.

Also, skill sharing. IMHO DIY gets bodged because the DIYer doesn't
have
the time/experience to get up to speed. It often takes me three or
four
times to get things even remotely right,

if it take you 4 times longer I can only assume you do it for fun. ;-)

So why don't people get pros in... the answer is usually cost.

More the aggravation.

A good pro is like gold.

Well a good pro is something else.


Most (9/10ths when I was looking to have my roof retiled) either don't
turn up, charge silly money, cancel at the last minute or just talk
bull**** and look crap.

So what did you do.
I had to have pros in as I don't own scaffolding and
I doubt I could put it up by myself, otherwise the
scaffolding company wouldn;t be employing 3 people
to do it but would just employ one person wouldn't they ?

Just because its more efficient to have 3 people do it when
you are doing it professionally doesn't mean that you can't
do it yourself when you don't care about how long it takes.

There are a few things like pouring a massive great concrete
slab where it isnt possible for one person to do it themselves,
but there aren't that many of those situations with houses.