Well in defense of my friend, he is a mechanical engineer and certainly could do it, and did. He added an entire master bedroom and bath to an old house, doing

Well in defense of my friend, he is a mechanical engineer and certainly could do it, and did. He added an entire master bedroom and bath to an old house, doing most of the interior stuff himself. However some of the hoops he had to jump through were pretty silly. I'm sure there was plenty of regulatory capture by builders and contractors.