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The Furnace That Fits Your Budget May Not Fit Your Mechanical Closet
How wide is the closet your furnace lives in? Most homeowners renovating a mid-century house can recite the tonnage, the AFUE rating and the rebate they are chasing, and not one interior dimension of the space the equipment actually has…
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Minimal Rooflines Punish Sloppy Flashing More Than Busy Ones
A steep gabled roof hides sloppy flashing. A steep gabled roof forgives the residential roofers Evansville IN homeowners hire in a hurry after a June storm. Mine does neither. The house is a 1958 ranch on the north side, two…
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Insert Windows Quietly Shrink The Light You Renovated For
The cheapest window quote in the stack is usually the one that takes the most from your rooms. Nobody writes that on the estimate. Insert replacement leaves the old frame sitting in the wall and sets a new unit inside…
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Clean Rooflines Concentrate Water Where The Details Meet
Twenty two squares of roof, and all of the trouble sat in about thirty linear feet of it. That is the usual shape of a leak call on a design led remodel: two skylight curbs and one shed dormer valley,…
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Three Shops Sent Back Three Different Curves From One Drawing
Most designers treat a dimensioned drawing as the final decision about shape. It is not. The drawing states intent, the shop delivers whatever its process can repeat, and the two agree only when somebody wrote down how much variation is…
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A Low Maintenance Yard Can Still Breed Mosquitoes All Summer
Less yard does not mean fewer mosquitoes. Homeowners who pull out the thirsty lawn and put in gravel paths, native grasses and a handful of containers usually expect the biting to leave with the sod, and then dusk on the…
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Standing Water Under A Rooftop Deck Is Never Just Water
The rain quits around four in SoDo, the light comes back, and the deck on a six-unit warehouse conversion looks exactly the way it was drawn: pavers set flat on pedestals, three planters, a bench nobody ever moves, a parapet…
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The Largest Blank Surface On Your House Deserves A Decision
A sixteen-foot opening facing the street covers roughly 112 square feet of wall. Nothing else on a front elevation comes close, not the entry door, not the picture window, not the simple roofline you paid extra to keep simple. So…
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The Eleven Month Checklist Most New Homeowners Never Run
Marcus found the crack on a Tuesday in October, ten months after closing on a 2,100 square foot house north of Odessa. It ran about four inches above the guest bedroom door, thin as a pencil line, and the paperwork…
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How to Renovate Your House Smartly and Effectively
House renovation sounds interesting and fun, but it takes a lot of perfect planning. If you are planning to renovate your house on a budget, then you should have some extra time on your hand. House renovation requires a time…
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The Checklist That Keeps A Pool Heater From Wrecking A Minimalist Deck
Pick the pool heater before the concrete goes down. A system chosen during design disappears into the build, while one chosen afterward has to be hidden, and hiding equipment is where the money and the safety problems both start. By…
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