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Have you done the sums on taking twice as long as you originally thought?
Speaking from experience of doing something similar….
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That’s my maths.
Although now maybe 1.5x slower.
Usually better quality than cheap trades too.
Pal of mine is redoing all his new woodwork as trade was bargain basement and results awful. -
Last project took twice as long and that was paying people, so I'm banking on four times, lol.
We will be getting grown ups in to do the structural stuff, the electrics and plumbing I can't do, the joinery, fitting windows, probably various things I've forgotten, so it's not like I'll be on my own.
But yeah in it for the long haul really and that's OK.
chrisbmx116
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This is why I'm self-building full time on our renovation: it's incredibly hard to find main contractors whose pricing isn't absolutely insane, and some of them are really taking the piss (not saying yours is, if they were you'd probably be looking at 200% over budget).
We did the maths and realised it would be a lot cheaper for me to not work and pay me a token wage (enough to live reasonably comfortably, but I don't cost much) to project manage, do as much as I can myself and procure everything. Our architects reckon we'll probably save a six-figure sum.