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Originally posted by I-Hate-Hulse@Jun 23 2005, 11:03 PM
How did you guys all get these skills? Working in the industry, tinkering on your own, trade schools, MacGyver?
When I lived at home, my dad was never the Tim Taylor (tool man, not Captain Disrespect) type and as such I never became that "handy". I'd like to learn how though, and like fooling around on projects with my limited skills.
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I learned most of it from my father. He's a cheap bas**rd and won't pay anyone to do anything. Case in point. He is 64 years old and he is currently putting new siding on their house. They have the money to hire it out, but he realized that the quotes he got that were all around $8,000 were more than 75% labour/profit. He went out and bought the siding he needed from Home Depot for $1800.
Also, IHH, books are a godsend. Those big hardcover Do-it-Yourself books they sell at Home Depot are awesome. Black and Decker make a really good do-it-yourself book as well. Explains a lot about the fundamentals of construction.
Also, we built a cottage ourselves near Invermere, so I learned a lot there, and I worked on a framing crew one summer.