renovationism

I’m having a little post-traumatic-stress just considering this post.
This was probably the most complicated planning effort required in the basement remodel. I knew that the basement would have a new hot water heater (HWH), new bathroom, new laundry area, and new wet bar. I also wanted to run water up for a future refrigerator upgrade [...]

The water main in my house enters in the basement roughly underneath the front door. Below is a picture I took of it in 2002. There’s a hose bib near the front door that, in 2002, had been leaking for a some time. Coincidentally, that’s exactly how long I’d been ignoring it. My thought process [...]