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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
This is the point I like to make as well. When people compare DIY cost to a real shop cost, they don't factor in "their" business costs (G&A/Overhead operating cost). Those are things such as electricity, lighting, heat, taxes, facility space rent, computer systems, training, tools and equipment, just to name a few. Factor those things in, and the DIY savings picture gets worse. But one shouldn't factor in G&A and Overhead costs, just as they shouldn't count the monetary value their labor time when DIY'ing.
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I don't factor in the cost of the building or the hoist or the air compressor or any of the tools, any more than I would factor in the cost of the car itself. They're all my toys. It's play-time.