[any1]

> I'd happily pay for this work if I had any trust in the results.

This is exactly how I feel.

What's even worse is that when I hire contractors, I invariably have to clean up their mess and fix things myself so that they're up to my standards.

I've had a contractor do a job so poorly that it was more trouble to fix their mess than it would have been for me to do the thing myself from the start.

[any1]

For the curious, this is the saga of when I had to fix my washing machine because a repair man used the wrong type of terminals when fixing it previously: https://andri.yngvason.is/repairing-the-washing-machine.html

[ryandrake]

Plus, contractors don't want to do your small, easily-DIY-able job. They want to do big, profitable projects. The contractors around where I live won't even get out of bed for less than $1,000. And, as others have mentioned, there's no craftsmanship anymore. They show up, do everything exactly to code as fast as they can, and leave. You're the one who has to live with the quality of work.

[floren]

> They show up,

if you're lucky

> do everything exactly to code

if you're lucky

> as fast as they can

if you're lucky

[any1]

Haha, yeah, you have to hound them on the phone to get them to show up and even then they're not going to show up on time or even at all.