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Really?!!! What would they do to a homeowner who is painting and repairing their own home?
I've read that 35% of homes in Maine are built before 1940.......so that would mean a lot of lead paint, right? and lots of people are DIYers.
You can do anything you want to your own home on your own property. You can be an electrician or a plumber or whatever. If I lived in maine, and I will about next year at this time, I could even do any work on my rental property myself. The laws only pertain to people who are employed by someone else.
Actually the EPA has extended the deadline to enroll in training to Sept. 30 and to complete training to Dec. 30, partially due to the efforts of Maine Senator Susan Collins. Apparently there are only three instructors in the entire state of Maine.
Most of Maine is fairly rural. Our township has around 250 people. A city of 10k people or more is pretty urban by our standards.
I know guys here who do carpentry, painting, electrical, plumbing, roofing, heating and cooling work. If you already had disability or a pension coming in, then doing handyman work will do you okay.
I knew one friend who moved to Maine from Texas, a General Contractor with a license. None of the rest of the handymen I know have licenses. The General Contractor ended up had to go back to Texas after 2 years here. He found the cost-of-living here is much lower than Texas, but so are the earnings.
In Bangor the Job Corp facility teaches 'Facility Maintenance' as one of their courses. It includes carpentry, painting, grounds-keeping, electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling, and roofing. I think it is a one-year program. They train about 30 students a year in that course. [both of our sons looked at their program]. I think they keep it so there is no shortage of handymen in the Flat-lands of Central Maine.
You can do anything you want to your own home on your own property. You can be an electrician or a plumber or whatever. If I lived in maine, and I will about next year at this time, I could even do any work on my rental property myself. The laws only pertain to people who are employed by someone else.
Zarathu
I wonder what happens if someone wants to buy a property that has a history of its owner doing all kinds of work on it--electrical, plumbing, structural carpentry--that the owner is not qualified to do?
Another good reason to have a house inspected before you buy it.
You can always say the painter is helping you. They have a hard time proving he is not.
A house inspection is necessary these days. I didn't have one, and while there aren't any major problems, it would have eliminated some work for me after the fact.
A general contractor in Maine would have a tough row to hoe unless he is in southern Maine, where a lot of people are not DIY'ers.
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You can do anything you want to your own home on your own property. You can be an electrician or a plumber or whatever. If I lived in maine, and I will about next year at this time, I could even do any work on my rental property myself. The laws only pertain to people who are employed by someone else.
Zarathu
Actually according to State law you cannot do your own plumbing on rental property. Has to be a licensed plumber. You can do minor plumbing maintenance but nothing requiring a permit.
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That works for me........
