It is with great enthusiasm that we come up with the perfect idea to make our homes a better place, and worth an extra ten grand!
But how often when making a decision to put a patio on, or replace the kitchen myself to save a few quid; do we sit down, complete a materials list, guestimate how long it will take, and draw a rough sketch of what we want it to look like?

Everytime, sometime or never? But it matters not, if you dont considor the right tools for the job aswel. How can I sit here and write this? With experience and the lack of detailed planning myself, and having refurbished a run down house, and gone a couple of grand over budget, without knowing why, that the long and short of it.

The reason why proffesional builders, plumbers, carpenters, you name it, (we will call them the Pro’s from here on) can give you a price for a job, and carry it out within a set down time, and to a budget (Most quality “Pro’s” can do this!!) is because they take everything into consideration, exact quantity of materials, they know how long phases take to complete given the right materials and tools, they dont try to do things on the cheap, because they cant afford to be called back to do it again for nothing.

Does that mean we must say goodbye to DIY, the past time of the noble first tme buyer, and keen DIY enthusiast? No, but we must up our game and apply some basic planning, work through the job step by step, research the job on the internet, and as you discover what materials are needed,list them, find quantity estimators on supplier websites, use these tools they provide for free.

And when you discover a way to do something correctly, print of the article or advice and set up a project plan, from this list work out the tools you will need to do this job, if you dont have them, go to a site such as www.jpsuppliesltd.co.uk, register and create a user profile so you can store them in a shopping cart. this will allow you to build a list of tools that you will need, it will also give you the price per tool and a total for you to include in your project budget.

A project is always easier to complete when everything is ready and on site so you can continue to progress without any enthusiasm wasting time delays.

Above all remember, Building code has changed a lot recently, make sure you can do what you plan legally, no point in improving if you cant add the value to the sale because it doesnt have the certificate!

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