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Agree with all you said except the iffy car brake, done by a DIY mechanic,sorry.There is such as thing as a DIY electrical job, but there's also such a thing as a DIY disaster. A quick googlesearch will reveal numerous pictures of situations where someone has had a go at doing something them self when they really shouldn't have. Some are amusing, some are just dangerous.
Often worse than dealing with the mess left by a 'cowboy builder' is the mess left by a well-meaning person who doesn't understand their limits but feels they should be having a go anyway.
If you get your carpentry wrong you could end up with a wonky shelf or you could saw your leg off, get your decorating wrong and you could have streaky walls, with your car you can end up with poor fuel economy or defective brakes, with plumbing you could end up with a dripping tap or contaminated drinking water, with electrics you could end up with a burned down house or electrocuted.
As professional electricians we often have to deal with people who think they 'know electrics' when it's clear that they don't and shouldn't be having a go.
Well a bodged brake job is dangerouse as I explained in my last post agree with the painting ,woodwork etc, just disagreed wth the brake issu, nothing personal, and hope the OP isn't too hacked off, I have quantified my disagreement, unlike some on here, not you Tel.why the disagree, pete?
It looks to me like you disagreed.Agree with all you said except the iffy car brake, done by a DIY mechanic,sorry.
if i was not competent to do it right, i would. i was fixing cars and motorbikes, rebuilding engines, welding in patches, repairing bodywork, at el, probably before you were born. anything i could not do, i either learnt or passed it over."never had a brake failure yet"
That's like a DIY would be spark saying "I've never had a shock/ burned the house down"
Get your brakes done by a professional.
If you get your carpentry wrong you could end up with a wonky shelf or you could saw your leg off, get your decorating wrong and you could have streaky walls, with your car you can end up with poor fuel economy or defective brakes, with plumbing you could end up with a dripping tap or contaminated drinking water, with electrics you could end up with a burned down house or electrocuted.
Exactly - in that instance the person putting up the shelves was out of their depth and should have either learned how to do it, left it to someone competent or not bothered.You can even end up with quite a serious electrical fault by simply putting shelves up. Been to a few of those before.
There aren't many things which a competent person can't DIY (apart from certain kinds of surgery), but at the same time an incompetent person can make a hash of the simplest of jobs and should leave them to someone else.if i was not competent to do it right, i would. i was fixing cars and motorbikes, rebuilding engines, welding in patches, repairing bodywork, at el, probably before you were born. anything i could not do, i either learnt or passed it over.
why the disagree, pete? i done all my brake pad/shoe/caliper/cylinder replacements for donkeys. never had a brake failure yet. only thing now is the strain in knees, is it worth it to save £50?
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