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i'd agree with this - i have a hard time employing trades to do stuff that i know that i can do because i care (or maybe obsess) about the details. cost is also a factor of course!
the knock on is that it takes me a lot longer than if i'd paid someone else do it.
i did all of the fitting out of our extension (kitchen, cloakroom, flooring throughout) but it has been 2 years since the build was completed and there are still loads of bits that need finishing off...
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It's just time and money isn't it? Reasonably priced trades aren't going to be able to spend as long on getting a perfect finish as a DIYer would. High end trades might be able to.
We have occasionally had people say 'i can do the perfect job for £3x or a satisfactory job for £1x, up to you', but that seems quite rare.
Obvs the tiler up thread was just a bit shit though