I ran Ethernet from the basement to the first floor office and living room over the holiday break. That was one of my main goals for my first house.
The next project will probably be figuring out how to properly insulate the garage. It’s attached to the house via an uninsulated shitty door and that’s a problem when the garage is 38°F and I want the house to stay around 68°F.
I’m in year two of planning to replace the windows, this month it’s been a dying relative and an upcoming dental surgery that’s put it off.
I get older, and the to-do list only grows in length. Condolences about your relative.
I figure it’s not a factor of my age, it’s a factor of the house’s age.
You see some old houses they say something like “This house was built in 1840 by Mister Plutis Astercock for his family” and they mean he knocked some trees over, sawed it into boards and nailed it together with his own hands. Just…right there in town. Down the street from the post office. Try that now and they’ll broadcast your evisceration on PBS. I’m a trained carpenter god dammit there are five families living in houses I built. No, now the only place you’re allowed to build your own house with your own hands is out in the cousinfucks.
There’s no reason you couldn’t still do that, as long as you pull the necessary permits and your work can pass inspection. Most jurisdictions make specific exemptions in the contractor licensing rules for homeowners working on their own properties.
and your work can pass inspection
And we get into the red tape that makes it functionally impossible. Fuck everything about it.
