“more than half of millennials prefer to call a professional”
I’m a millennial. Main source of prosperity, buying and fixing and flipping real estate.
I do what I can, but I’m under 100 pounds and I don’t trust my little hands with power tools. I can repair and fix lots of things but you can waste a heap of time and energy, and wind up with poor results, if you don’t call a pro.
Usually the hardest challenge I face is getting the pro to be where he promised and when.
Also, what I don’t know and what doesn’t take male strength, can usually be learned from youtube.
“Also, what I don’t know and what doesn’t take male strength, can usually be learned from youtube.”
Our future DIL is a Youtuber. She can basically fix anything. She owns the home she lives and two rentals and does 90% of the repair work on the 3 homes, thanks to You Tube.
In the past few years, even good products often come with poor instructions on how assemble at home or to store. I bought a new Dyson portable vacuum cleaner and none of us could figure out how to hang it on the wall with an attachment for storage and re charging.
She came down, and we took my chromebook,tools and the Dyson into the laundry room and went to YouTube. One description was terrible, one in a little over 2 minutes showed us how to drill the holes install it and plug it in with the proper measurement.
She and I did the whole job in about 5 minutes including the Youtube video. 6 months later and in spite of being used basically everyday. It is still hanging and charging. My wife just jerks it out of the holders.
Knowing that we put in wood screws into a stud to secure it.