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Some professionals may refuse to finish a job that others have started. Others may look at a particular unfinished job and decide like you did, that it is going to be very complex. Knowing that, they would rather have nothing to do with it. Still other professionals hold the whole DIY concept in contempt and refuse to do work for those they know embrace the do it your self work ethic.

For what ever reason, sometimes it is hard, if not impossible to find a contractor who can effectively take on or complete a job the way you wish it to be done, in a satisfactory manner and in a price range with which you can live.

So what do you do when this happens? Do you pull out the stops and take out a loan, if you can get one? Do you try to sell the darn house to get out from under the burden, or do you run screaming into the night? No, what you do is get smart. You get smart and get ready for your family and friends to abandon you because, trust me, no one will want to know you, no one will admit to being your friend during one of these types of DIY projects.

What I mean by getting smart is this: 1. you need to find a way to either complete the project yourself, or, 2. find others you can hire to do specific portions of the project then, 3. tie the whole thing together yourself. In essence, you become a general contractor. But I have to add, not even this approach can guarantee success.

A friend of mine took on one of these nightmare do-it-yourself projects which needed some masonry work. He hired a capable local mason who has been in the business as long as I can remember. The project turned out to be such a burden that the sub contractor ran screaming into the night, so to speak. He left the job incomplete, leaving my friend with open holes in his home with winter coming on. The brick layer was owed over $1500 for work completed. He never bothered to pick up his tools, never even bothered to collect the money he had coming. He just left. His tools and equipment are still there, in my friend?s back yard, over a year later. The job remains incomplete.

Recently, I had such a project that before I knew it became a monster which I though would never be tamed. Because of a water main problem, I had water damage in my basement. As I started to remove the damaged material, there just seemed to be no stopping point. Not one that would lend itself to any conscionable way to match old to new any way. Before I realized it, I was in for a complete remodel of my basement which went way beyond what a normal remodel usually would encompass.

The wiring was substandard, almost scary.

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