>just install the oven yourself lil bro
>just install the ceiling lighting fixtures yourself cuh
>just install the toilet, sink, water heating pipes, shower, washing machine and dryer yourself my brother in christ
>just mix cement and repair the foundation yourself stan
>just fix the incoming mains powetr fuze box yourself bro what could go wro-ACK!
Here's some herbs for your horrible thread. Reminder: do not bump moron threads.
there's a REASON these repairs are gatekept by insurance companies and in many cases by law
Doing it yourself can be DANGEROUS
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Protip!: learn everything you can about what you're doing and then apply it IRL
Insurance companies wont give a frick though. Where I am from your are not even legally in the clear if you are a certified electrician doing electrical work requiring electricians in your own home
that sounds like Judaism to me
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> Just let someone else do it.
I bet OP doesn't even frick his own wife.
I'm not a handyman or contractor and even I can replace a frickin toilet.
>*leaks and isnt covered by insurance cus u did it urself*
nice one
imagine living in such a dystopian shithole...
where i live, i did all the work on my apartment (including installing the toilets, electric appliances and everything else) and the insurance company just gave me the signed papers and said "good luck and hope you never use it"
Even if the premise was correct, and your shitty insurance won't cover DIY toilet replacement (nonsense) ... how the frick are they gonna know it was a DIY replacement?
That toilet has always been there.
100% this
Until you've lived somewhere like 20 years, just deny that you are capable to anyone that's a state or fed
How?? They will literally just ask for documentation you moron.
>but what if i fake it
Oh so DIY Insurance Fraud then. GENIUS
Documentation of what? The 20 year old toilet in my house? Yeah let me dig up that receipt... Frick off moron.
Or you know if there is a leak you could notice it and repair it and not get insurance involved at all because it's an absolute nothing burger...
The documentation that the toilet was replaced in 2005, and that the previous homeowner generously left you?
My 66 year old mother can replace a toilet. If you simply don't want to do anything yourself, that's fine, no need to be a drama queen crying about insurance companies and destruction.
>They will literally just ask for documentation you moron.
Show is a statutory requirement to maintain said documentation for private dwellings that is enforced outside urban hives and cite examples or go felch hobos.
You're either a rentcel who has no idea what he's talking about, or you live in the gaygiest most over-regulated Canadian/Euro-gay dystopia imaginable.
Oh say can you seeee..
The only excuse is being super rich, which frankly no one here is. Everything that isn't gas, windows or incoming mains can and should be done by yourself. No excuses.
>Oh say can you seeee..
That isn't how it works in the USA, and you're both moronic
gas, windows, and incoming mains are no harder than copper pipe, putting in coping or wiring car speakers. there is literally no reason to avoid any of it if you're even semi-competent. The problem is most of the world is not semi-competent and the scariest shit is not doing this stuff yourself but all the fricking idiot tards who "fixed" shit before you.
On a very base line i have to agree, but mains and gas leaves too much room of error if you don't really know what you're doing(especially boomer tier "i've done this before frickery" or "well there's only green-yellow cable left" frickery) and windows are just impractical. Till you get there you'll have a whole workshop assembled. It just doesn't break even(Unless you're just installing prebuilt plastic shitters, then it's whatever).
My workshops more than broke even. Self and wife renovated our houses, maintained and rebuilt and painted our trucks and motorcycles etc etc and buying the tools and equipment was a bargain. Roofing sucks except for glorious galvalume but it's nothing a reasonably fit human cannot manage. I don't even know what typical current rates for auto, home or any other repair are because I've almost never used them.
Learn everything by deciding to learn everything, it's just triumph of determination. Once you hit your stride everything is of a piece. My bros are the same and are all gearheads, machinists, tradies, mechanics, jet mechs, avionics etc too. Anyone can do this.
Then do it right and you wont have leaks.
...insurance?
LMAO.
Listen, Anon.I love getting scammed as much as the next guy but are you for real?
The time and bureaucracy it takes for "insurance" to fix shit is not worth the price. It takes them a week to replace a fricking toilet, what am I suppose to to shit in a trashcan in the meantime twiddling my thumbs? And for the yearly cost of one toilet replacement I could replace 5 myself, 7 with a safe investment.
It's not rocket science. Don't get addicted to the help of others.
These kinds of threads pop up a lot now. Its as if ~~*they*~~ want you to be helpless. How intimidated can people be by others being self-motivated, reasonably intelligent and confident enough to try? Apparently a whole lot. SAD.
Are you implying any of those things are hard?
yes.
>can't install an oven plug
>can't tell black/silver/white apart
>can't turn a monkey wrench
>can't mix cement in a bucket and smooth it out
>can't Google fuses
Wow look at all the stuff you can't do.
Man, this guy sure is useless. I'm jelly.
its not that hard when you watch how its be made on youtube first
>>just install the oven yourself lil bro
>>just install the ceiling lighting fixtures yourself cuh
>>just install the toilet, sink, water heating pipes, shower, washing machine and dryer yourself my brother in christ
>>just mix cement and repair the foundation yourself stan
>>just fix the incoming mains powetr fuze box yourself bro what could go wro-ACK!
I have done ALL the above over the years with little fuss and my wife similarly but not being stupid helps. The problem is idiots, not the tasks themselves.
When a tree folded my weatherhead I called the power company who disconnected it. I repaired the damage properly then (because power co policy) an electrician came out to inspect and connect ($400 to connect three cables) then got power and life is good.
If you are helpless then pay someone who isn't moronic.