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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our #1 is never paying someone to do work for us. Mow your own lawn, lay your own wood floors, paint the walls yourself, put your own brakes on (dh learned through YouTube), install your own light fixtures, clean your own house. We have a well maintained, beautiful house with new kitchens and baths we did ourselves. We only hired out what was mandatory under code (like gas lines). We've saved tens of thousands. [/quote]

This is assuming you want to sacrifice family time for these things. We are firmly in the camp of not worth it.  Plus i don't want to have a bunch of tools around the house. We just had our HW floors refinished and it took 3 guys 5 full work days to do our floors. That's 120 man hours. That would take us months to complete.[/quote]

Then you must have a huge house.  We diy'ed ours and it was not a big deal.  The prep work was the worst.  We have tons of tools but a floor sander is something you generally rent.  We get the kids involved so it is family time.  We don't work on our cars but do our house. That's not really living below your means.  Living below your means is spending less and saving.  [/quote]

Not interested in exposing my kids to those fumes.  The people who did our floors wore respirators and it was strongly suggested that we stay somewhere else for the week. They were correct. Polyurethane is not healthy to be breathing in without the proper equipment.

Just look at the back of the can of those chemicals. Nope.[/quote]

Its easy to DIY refinish hardwood floors.  Common sense is not to use strong chemicals.  They are still in your house for months so don't kid yourself to think you aren't breathing them.  You should have used a tung or other natural oil finish if you were so concerned about smells.[/quote]

All chemicals used for refinished HW floors are strong. Using oil or wax does not work well for a modern family.

Yes, we are breathing them, but I'm not about to strap respirators on my kids faces for a week to save money. That's just idiotic.[/quote]

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