On: Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last?

[bluGill]

The return delivery costs are as much as the cost of the tools themselves.

I always tell people wanting to do a job themselves that the first time your costs are the same as hiring a pro, but the second time you own the tools and it is just time.

[ceejayoz → bluGill]

Unless, of course, I'm so incompetent that I accidentally cut a hole in a load-bearing wall, broke the tools, and had to call a pro in to fix it all.

[brianwawok → ceejayoz]

Been there done that.