Bath Remodel Contractor in Covington, WA

Unless you do this for a living, you will never be able to replicate the depth of knowledge and skill that true professionals have. It’s just like anything else. If you spend 10 years doing something every day, your ability and competency in doing that thing will be so much greater than someone who does that thing casually. Ability and competency don’t just refer to craftsmanship. It’s also about knowing what materials to use in each situation. It’s about knowing what order to install things in. There’s so much knowledge that goes into a renovation project that it’s hard to imagine trying to tackle such a thing without years of experience.

Experience breeds high-quality work. Let’s say we had a competition where we gave you 5 years to renovate a bathroom, and we gave our team 2 months. Which bathroom do you think would be of higher quality? There is this story about a pottery class where the teacher gave two teams 30 days to complete a project. He told the first team to make one clay pot. He told the second team to make as many clay pots as possible. In the end, the second group not only produced more pots, but their final pots were better than the first group’s pot. Doing something over and over breeds quality work. That’s why professional craftsmen will always produce higher-quality work than DIYers.

When you’ve been doing something for over a decade, you become a true master. Not only that, but you learn so many lessons about what NOT to do. There are an infinite number of mistakes that can be made during a renovation project. Professionals have made most of these mistakes in the past and have learned from them, so you don’t have to. When you work with professionals, they bring a plethora of solutions to problems you didn’t know existed. These mistakes can make or break your project if you don’t know what you’re doing, and they can be HUGE time wasters. It’s not uncommon for DIYers to start their project over from scratch several times before getting it right, which is expensive in terms of time and money. Even if you make zero mistakes, the work will take significantly longer for DIYers than it would take a professional team of remodelers.

The number one reason people like DIY projects is because they can save money, and that is true. Professional contractors will charge for materials + labor, and if you can do the labor yourself, you only have to pay for materials. If you have all the experience, knowledge, and skills required to get the job done, we recommend you do it yourself. If you are unsure if you have the experience, knowledge, and skills required to get the job done, that usually indicates that you don’t. If you don’t have those skills, we can almost guarantee that you will spend more money fixing your mistakes than you would paying for labor. But if you’re confident in your abilities, then it wouldn’t be smart to pay for it.