Everyone who has ever picked up a hammer will have had dreams of transforming their drab old home into a place of wonder, a utopian construct formed by your very own capable hands. Ah, DIY. Why would you ever want to call in a professional? That’s not a hypothetical question, and it has a very simple answer – because a DIY project can go very, very wrong, very, very quickly. It’s probably fair to say that 95% of the people who have undertaken more than one DIY project, or remaking your home will have encountered some kind of issue, whether minor (like a cosmetic crack in the wall) or major (like drilling straight through a water pipe). What defines a good DIY’er is not the fact that ...

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