DIY GUIDES · TRADES & CONSTRUCTION · CHECKED OCTOBER 2026
Trades & Construction jobs you can do yourself
Step by step, and honest about the rest.
6 guides for trades & construction jobs a householder can do in Ireland, each one written from the manufacturers' own figures and the safety authority's limits, with the sources and the month at the end. 46 services in this category are not here at all, because the law or the risk keeps them out of a householder's hands.
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6 guides. Pick the job.
Grouped the way you would ask for them. Every guide covers the checks, the questions and the quote for that job — then takes you to the builders who cover your area.
What every guide gives you
Every step, start to finish
The preparation, the technique and the order of work for trades & construction jobs, written out step by step with the time each one takes and the mistake it hides. Each guide is graded Easy, Moderate or Hard on the tools it needs, the height it reaches and what a slip costs, and it carries the month it was last checked and the sources behind it.
What to buy, and how much
The materials, the decisions behind them and a calculator for the quantity your own job needs, so you buy once. Where a trades & construction job is partly yours — and 2 services in this category are — the guide says which part you may do, which part you may not, and what you owe under the Consumer Rights Act 2022 when somebody else finishes it.
Honest about where it stops
the Construction Industry Register Ireland puts part of this work beyond a householder whatever their skill, and 46 services in trades & construction are here for that reason. Every guide says which register applies to its own job, how to check a number, and where the guide to hiring somebody begins.
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How these guides are made
Questions people ask
Some of it. Construction Industry Register Ireland (CIRI) covers work in this category that may only be done by a registered person, and no guide here tells you to do any of it. 46 services in Trades & Construction are out of a householder's hands for that kind of reason.
Easy is hand tools, nothing above a step-ladder, and a mistake you can undo. Moderate means power tools or precision, often a full day, and a mistake that costs materials. Hard means a mistake needs somebody paid to fix it — most of those are not here at all.
The coverage rates, drying times and clearances are the manufacturers' own published figures, and the safety limits are the safety authority's. Every guide ends with its sources and the month they were read.
Stop at the step you are on rather than the end of the job. Each guide says where it would stop and links to the guide on hiring somebody, and under the Consumer Rights Act 2022 a trader you then hire is responsible for their own work, not for yours.
2 guides in this category cover a job that starts as yours and stops being yours part way through. Each one ends at a Stop here card naming what takes over.
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