I toil on stuff in the apartment & my truck pretty much all the time.
Being sort of handy has been a way for myself and others to save a great bit of money over all of these years.
My dad raised myself and others to not be afraid to get in there & figure out a repair. The two of us both spent a whole lot of time working on the family cars, shrubbery mowers & just about anything else that needed it. These days, I can toil on my truck however my wife’s automobile has too numerous computer pretzels to be able to do my own repairs. I wish I had done the same thing with our Heating & A/C recently. The furnace went down a couple of months ago. Being the handy type, I just had to take a look at the complication before I made a call to the Heating & A/C tech for service. That was stupid because I found the complication & figured it would be an easy fix. There was a burned out switch so I just replaced it. The furnace fired right back up & I thought I was a hero. That is until the furnace crashed again a week later. But, this time it was not something anyone was going to be able to fix. The Heating & A/C girl came out. It didn’t take him certainly long to confirm that the replacement part had failed & cause irreparable mangle to the furnace. The furnace was done. And that wasn’t the worst part. Because of doing the service myself with a non OEM part, I voided the warranty. So, I get to replace a furnace on my dime.