I am so sorry to hear such sad stories about bad tradesmen they're seems to be a lot of laid-off auto workers who think they are handy My step-Dad was always remodeling which was lucky for me I learned how to do my own remodeling because my Dearly missed Husband could put things off at home til Hell froze over so if it needed done I just did it The only thing that scares me is anything electrical-- I don't like me in curls :-D