The pros and cons of doing an aviation degree have been done to death on D&G
You're definitely not too old at 26 to start your aviation career.
You may also want to search on subjects on how to balance work/life/wife?/kids? with your change from being a chippie to being a newby CPL (with appropriate wage loss and relocation). Here are a couple of threads (there are plenty more on this subject as kind of thread comes up pretty regularly).
http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-general-a...ly-juggle.html
http://www.pprune.org/dg-p-general-a...ce-please.html
If you want it badly enough you can achieve it; just beware of the sacrifices you may have to make. As a previous poster said, you may be better off staying in your current job and being a recreational flyer.
Hope this helps,
DIVOSH!