I call this " why the cost of hiring a guy to do anything is either 250$ or 10000$ ". And when the switch from low to high happens your jaw drops.
Most routine maintenance work is the latter coat point(your toilet flus repair, electrical short repair, Hole in the wall AC replacement), but anything else more complex and the cost explodes and if you get multiple times estimates you will find out there is no escaping the bare truth. This stuff is hard and you have to do lots of estimation before hand if you have to get into anything.
Fortunately all my tooling for my little condo fits in three tool containers a bit smaller than full-size suitcases. Once you build enough of a toolbox and experience small repairs become a no brainer.
Most routine maintenance work is the latter coat point(your toilet flus repair, electrical short repair, Hole in the wall AC replacement), but anything else more complex and the cost explodes and if you get multiple times estimates you will find out there is no escaping the bare truth. This stuff is hard and you have to do lots of estimation before hand if you have to get into anything.
Fortunately all my tooling for my little condo fits in three tool containers a bit smaller than full-size suitcases. Once you build enough of a toolbox and experience small repairs become a no brainer.
But every now and then you gotta call a guy.