@Stan Galat posted:My answer to "how hard can this be?" is always, "hard enough that you want to pay me to do it".
I can pour concrete. I can shingle a roof. I can put up siding. I've tried drywall and paint, but I'm no good at either. I pay for all of it because it's harder than it looks, and I like things to be done well.
All that...but I do most of it myself because I'm actually better at a lot of that than a lot of the guys I've seen doing it for money, and also—damn, it costs how much??
But as I've aged I've come ever so slowly around to Stan's way of thinking.
Very slowly.
Last Tuesday I was awakened by five guys tearing off the neighbor's roof. It surprised me because I had, just the day before, squeezed a dab of roof cement on about 20 exposed nailheads along the ridge of my 8 x 16 shed, having run out of steam after re-shingling half of it in the wake of an unfortunate squirrel nesting incident.
And I knew it was going to rain that afternoon.
So at 7 am, those dudes were just getting started on a whole-ass four-bedroom house, and I exclaimed "oh no," loudly enough that it woke my wife.
Friends, those pros were done and out by 2:30 pm. House, garage, flashing, vents—the whole nine. And they left the yard clean.
I, meanwhile, managed to finish the second half of the shed roof on Saturday and cap it off by about 3 pm.