You will almost certainly need at some point to hire a contractor, or perhaps many contractors, to complete a renovation. In fact, we have found that we were better served to hire a contractor to do much of the work that we could do ourselves. There are simply many things that can be done much more rapidly and with better quality by a professional. You will begin to figure out which things these are based on your own abilities and the things that you do and don't like to do.

Some things are a function of expertise. We have found that it is best to hire folks to do things on either extreme of the expertise scale...