Owain Lastname wrote :
Worktops and sheet flooring are on my don't-try list, as it's too easy to get
it a tiny bit wrong and spoil a whole lot of expensive material.

Did my worktops 35 years ago, no problems.

Re-did my sheet flooring about three months ago, my largish kitchen had
been recently decorated, but I took the skirting boards off this time
to make a proper job of it - skirting on top of flooring.

Because I had done the decorating, I had kept the left over paints, so
once the skirting was back in place I was able to tidy up the damage to
the paint on the wall. Had I 'got a man in' it would have taken a whole
lot longer, finished job would not have been as good and likely with no
matching paint - the whole kitchen would have needed doing. Start to
finish, done it five easy days, with kitchen usable each evening for
cooking and meals.

And it's a lot easier to moan about someone else's bad job than live with the
consequences of one's own mistakes.

The other way to look at it is, that you can learn from your mistakes.
Better to look at your own mistakes for years, than looking at a
professionals mistakes. I never just wade straight into jobs at home,
unless I have to - usually I will spend a bit of time (sometimes weeks)
researching and planning how I intend tackling it.

I had intended to replace the kitchen floor for a couple of years,
before I actually took the bull by the horns. Before doing it I spent a
few weeks deciding what I wanted to use, discussed colours and
materials etc., research places to buy and cost, measured twice,
ordered on the Saturday, delivered on the Monday, job all done by
Friday.