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How hard to remodel a house? Evaluating difficulty of a remodeling project correctly allows homeowners to make a right decision whether to do it yourself or hire an experienced installer. Cutting labor cost might be tempting and many handy homeowners would rather spend few hours on watching tutorials and complete a simple home improvement project successfully by self. But planning on more complex renovation hiring professionals might be the only solution. Very often poor on site work performance including improper installation or not adequate preparation will lead to significant reduction in lifespan of materials, fixtures and finishing products. Installation of any type of fixtures, replacing any products or building something new is a complex step by step process and while installation instructions will show the basics in many cases they won’t show you every single detail due to time constrains. It is a big possibility that there might be situations which you just have to know how to resolve and without the experience even looks like a simple project may not be completed the right way. Another factor is a preparation work. Replacing some older and out of date products might not be a complicated task at all, but ones you perform demolishing there might be more preparation work involve than installation itself. Let’s say a homeowner plans on extending a bathroom space and moves a partition wall a few feet. You cannot say it is a hard project and homeowners who know how to operate a circular saw, framing nailer and able to install and finish drywall can do it by self. But ones wall is open there might be multiple water and drain pipes, HVAC ducts as well as extensive rough-in electrical done through the studs. In such case simple work will quickly turn into the complicated time consuming project which should be done by a professional.
In the chart below difficulty of work was evaluated based on standard installation replacing or repair and all additional work which might be unavoidable was omitted. Estimated work complexity chart
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