On the topic of "do it yourself" and, um, quality of workmanship, I have a quick story from this morning's adventure in home improvement.
Our crawlspace has sufficient standing headroom that we decided to close-in part of it with a slab floor for a storage/work area. Personally, I prefer to build something rather than 'make it fit,' but oh well.
So this morning I was working on the last section of wall. I cut every stud, all five of them, 3 inches too short. >:(
I subtracted 1.5 inches rather than adding 1.5 inches, and AGAIN this issue arose from me doing something a little differently than I usually do it.
It's a humbling, really. I was feeling just a little too good for making nice, square cuts with my skillsaw. Alls not lost, though. I think I can use most of the too-short pieces for when I make the door to get to the rest of the crawl space.
So, should I give up and hire someone to finish it for me? ;D ;D
Nah, just make another run down to Home Depot... ;)
I used to work as an electrical and when I was doing an interview I used to the the person that I was so good that I can cut the same piece of pipe 3 times and it would still be short. ;D