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Plus even with all that, the incentives for them will likely be to timebox and accept certain quality as sufficient where you wouldn't need to.

There's definitely tradeoffs and they're very context dependent on your location/circumstances.



There's also tons of benefits for DYI if done in a correct balance. It allows you to later communicate with professionals more efficiently and figure out who is actually a quality professional, debug issues with the setup you have, make better decisions in the future. I think when owning a house, if something does not pose a significant long term risk health or damage wise, it's wise to at least try and spend few hours on figuring out the DYI. Unless you have serious FU money where you can hire a single, trusted person to just orchestrate everything for you.




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