This month I am definitely been lacking in inspiration. It may be because work has been busy, but also because the holiday I have recently taken was to do DIY jobs around the house.
So, I hope you won’t mind that I am revisiting the theme of an article I wrote in 2017, because it is pertinent to the holiday jobs I we have just undertaken. The biggest of which was replacing half of the roof of the cabin that houses the HQ of Bevan Financial Management!
Planning is important so we started off by asking ourselves some key questions:
- What is our budget?
- How will we get the materials to do the job as availability of wood etc., has been effected by COVID 19?
- What time will we need for the project as we needed to ensure we would not be caught out by rain when the roof was off!
- Will we do the job ourselves or get someone in to do it for us?
As you will know from previous articles I am a great believer in getting a professional to do a professional job. However,my husband Jeff is pretty handy at woodwork – and we had built the cabin ourselves originally – so we decided we would do the work ourselves. This decision handily reduced the budget needed – but would hopefully not come back to bite us!
Our son Alex and I would be Jeff’s labourers! Happily we are both very good at taking instruction from other people – NOT!
Last week was D day!
We had to make sure we had all the tools and materials we needed before the we started as the time we had available to complete the job was limited. Google came in very handy for finding the supplier of felting and shingles. Luckily, we were able to use a local supplier for the wood who delivered everything in good time and for free!
The day we chose for the job was sunny and hot with no sign of rain. This helped immensely but it was THE LONGEST DAY OF OUR LIVES!! But it was relatively stress free because we knew exactly what we were doing and were focused on the time we had to do it.
The job came out well and I am tucked up tight for another 8 years (hopefully).
The lesson from all of this? If you have a project, whether business or personal, plan for success and you are much more likely to get the results you need.