I buily my own house. Took about three years to complete to the point of moving in. It's a lot of hard work when you have a crew of one, sometimes two. You just have to get the mindset that it isn't going to happen overnight. But the savings is enormus. I'm a contractor so I have the tools and experience, but when you get home after swatting nails all day, it's kind of hard, at times, to get the motivation to go out and do it after supper. But that's what it takes.

I subbed out the electrical, plumbing and heating, left those to someone who could get them done fast and right to code the first time.

I built my shop first and then finished off half of it for a place to live while we built the house. Problem is I finished it off so nice that I was to comfortable to keep motivated on the house. That plus a heart attack slowed the progress.

The house is 99% finished now and was well worht the effort.