Put off a home repair

Waiting costs you

Putting it off for 6 months costs you $2,148.

• Waiting only pays if the chance of it getting worse is under 0.2%. You put 40%.
• For every $1 you put off, you pay $4.58.
• Keeping the money earns you $12 meanwhile, which is already counted.

This is a worked example with illustrative figures, not data about any real person or company. Change any of them in the calculator and the answer changes with them.

How this answer was worked out

Every formula is written out on the formulas page.

What the calculator asks you

• What the repair costs now
• Months you would put it off
• Chance it causes more damage
• What repairing that damage would cost
• How much it grows each month if left
• What waiting costs you each month meanwhile
• Yearly rate the money earns you while you keep it

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• The cost of waitingThe calculator this example comes from
• Before you decideA checklist of what is worth checking first