I don’t know if you have any handy people in your life, but I can tell you that these folks are lifesavers.
I have a lot of handy friends, including mechanics and plumbers.
They’re consistently bailing me out of tough situations and helping me to get back on my feet without throwing away my entire savings account for a professional repair that takes only an hour or so. This is how I manage to get by most of the time on a low income, and one of the handiest people that I know, but, is my older sibling. He became a heating, cooling, and air quality control specialist a few years ago and makes incredible money doing what he does. He installs both residential and commercial indoor air handling solutions for customers all over the region. I know that he’s incredibly busy, traveling around to tell people how to improve their breathing and temperature control options. He’s consistently installing huge heating and cooling equipment, air media purifiers, and dehumidification devices. Any time my associate and I speak he has a new story from the latest heating and cooling upgrade job. That’s why I feel bad asking him for help with my own tiny indoor air quality control setup… but at the same time, I don’t want to spend my money another professional heating and cooling specialist to come provide my AC a gander. I just call my huge sibling and ask if he can squeeze my Heating, Ventilation and A/C onto his busy schedule, periodically i have to wait a few weeks for him to problemshoot my Heating, Ventilation and A/C system, but in the end he consistently helps me out. It pays to have people in your life you don’t have to pay.