The braiding you have done, how hard is it to do, and hwere did you get it from?
The braiding isn't hard, but then again I have done a fair bit. As long as your happy with taking connectors apart and threading the braid on then heat shrinking cables in the right place it is fine.
I get mine from MDPC, cant beat their quality.
http://en.mdpc-x.com/10m of it is 5.95 Euros. That did half of my cables and I had extensions, so that means I needed less. To fully braid everything you need around 30m of braid. On top of that is SATA sleeveing and remember you need the tool to remove the pins.