> I'd happily pay for this work if I had any trust in the results.
This is exactly how I feel.
What's even worse is that when I hire contractors, I invariably have to clean up their mess and fix things myself so that they're up to my standards.
I've had a contractor do a job so poorly that it was more trouble to fix their mess than it would have been for me to do the thing myself from the start.
Plus, contractors don't want to do your small, easily-DIY-able job. They want to do big, profitable projects. The contractors around where I live won't even get out of bed for less than $1,000. And, as others have mentioned, there's no craftsmanship anymore. They show up, do everything exactly to code as fast as they can, and leave. You're the one who has to live with the quality of work.
This is exactly how I feel.
What's even worse is that when I hire contractors, I invariably have to clean up their mess and fix things myself so that they're up to my standards.
I've had a contractor do a job so poorly that it was more trouble to fix their mess than it would have been for me to do the thing myself from the start.