GET SOMEONE IN, NOT DO IT YOURSELF 

In this day and age, when we all have less time, more responsibilities, more money and our houses are worth four times as much as we ever imagined way back then, it's no longer DIY but GSI – Get Someone In.

Can you remember when you were young – just bought your first home, no responsibilities, lots of energy?

You’d come home from work and spend each evening and weekend fitting a new kitchen, making curtains or decorating the hall stairs and landing.

That was when the buzz words were Do It Yourself, everyone was at it and the DIY multiples were the fastest growing businesses in the country.

In this day and age, when we all have less time, more responsibilities, more money and our houses are worth four times as much as we ever imagined way back then, it’s no longer DIY but GSI – Get Someone In.

However good you are at DIY, you will be doing a job for the first time that someone else has spent a lifetime learning how to do properly.

You can always tell an amateur job from a professional one – and that’s the key, if you are going to Get Someone In make sure that someone is a professional.

Take tiling: a plumber isn’t a tiler, a painter and decorator isn’t a tiler, a electrician isn’t a tiler and that nice bloke someone introduced you to in the pub probably isn’t a tiler either.