xMisterDx
2023-01-21 01:23:49
- #1
One must also consider that during the DIY work, the loan is already being serviced as a rule, but one still lives in a rental.
That means, in addition to a month of DIY work, there are also 800, 1,000 or 1,500 EUR rent + additional costs to pay.
My tiler has tiled the kitchen (17m²), hallway (12m²), upstairs bathroom (10m², barrier-free shower) and the ground floor WC (2.5m²) in 2 weeks and is still not finished. Grouting, silicone and bathtub still need to be done. He has worked 10 days so far, 8-9 hours each day.
For an amateur, you can roughly estimate double (semi-professional, who has tiled a few times before) to four times (absolute beginner, mixing tile adhesive for the first time) the time. Besides work and family, I can manage to free up at best 25-30 hours per week, most of them on Saturdays and Sundays.
So for the tiling alone, I would have needed at least 10 weeks. That would have been 2.5 months’ rent just in my case, so the tiler would almost be "a bargain"...
DIY saves money especially when you do it while already living in the house or when you live rent-free.
In all other cases, you have to calculate very carefully; as a rule, it is not worthwhile or you save much less than you think.
Above all, one should not underestimate how much it takes out of you to work on the interior finishing every spare second next to your job for months or even years. After 1-2 rooms of drywall, you simply get fed up... but there are still 7 more rooms to go ;)
That means, in addition to a month of DIY work, there are also 800, 1,000 or 1,500 EUR rent + additional costs to pay.
My tiler has tiled the kitchen (17m²), hallway (12m²), upstairs bathroom (10m², barrier-free shower) and the ground floor WC (2.5m²) in 2 weeks and is still not finished. Grouting, silicone and bathtub still need to be done. He has worked 10 days so far, 8-9 hours each day.
For an amateur, you can roughly estimate double (semi-professional, who has tiled a few times before) to four times (absolute beginner, mixing tile adhesive for the first time) the time. Besides work and family, I can manage to free up at best 25-30 hours per week, most of them on Saturdays and Sundays.
So for the tiling alone, I would have needed at least 10 weeks. That would have been 2.5 months’ rent just in my case, so the tiler would almost be "a bargain"...
DIY saves money especially when you do it while already living in the house or when you live rent-free.
In all other cases, you have to calculate very carefully; as a rule, it is not worthwhile or you save much less than you think.
Above all, one should not underestimate how much it takes out of you to work on the interior finishing every spare second next to your job for months or even years. After 1-2 rooms of drywall, you simply get fed up... but there are still 7 more rooms to go ;)