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No matter how new or how well-built, every house needs work or maintenance on a regular basis. You can pay professionals to do it all, of course, but if you’re looking to save a little money (or just want to learn and be in control of your home maintenance fate), there are plenty of home repair jobs that can be DIY’d. If you’re a beginner who’s just getting started on DIY maintenance and repair, however, you should watch out for some easy and common mistakes inexperienced DIYers make.

While some of these mistakes will be obvious the moment you make them, it’s also easy to get through an entire project and have superficial success only to see that success slowly fade into failure because you’ve made a simple error. If you go into your next

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