KleinPad!

After remodeling the upstairs bathroom I was beginning to feel badly for visitors who had to use the small downstairs bathroom. The sink had no room for the various products that folks use when getting ready for the day/night/whatever. The shower was small, and the toilet was in a location that consumed way more space than it should have. Before… What I had designed in floor planner. Let the work begin: Shower, toilet, sink, flooring, and walls into the bedroom…

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I’ve been playing around with some apps to map my home and have been using Scaniverse lately. So far it’s been pretty useful in mapping. It’s been useful to see the layout in 3D to visualize how the floors overlap and how my upper bedroom (very messy when testing) sits over the porch.

This home had one bathroom and it was small and downstairs so the previous owners split the former upstairs “master” bedroom into this weird little bathroom and vestibule. It was very inefficient and not done well. The vestibule couldn’t be used for anything other than storage. I worked with a few contractors to remake the bathroom after I spent some time to demolish what had been there so we could start with an open room. With the roofline impeding the…

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My old 1921 home, like many of its age, has floors that aren’t perfectly level. My upstairs bedroom, which sits above the front porch, settled slightly after the house was built, but none of the previous owners addressed the issue in the ensuing century. They could have either torn up the flooring and added sister joists to level it, or spent the money to lift and level that section of the house. I chose the former option, with the help…

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The Enphase 10T battery backup with a Panasonic solar array is a powerful combination that can provide homeowners with a number of benefits. Here are just a few of the reasons I chose to generate solar energy on my rooftop: Here are a few reasons why I decided to add a battery backup: I went with a local installer after hearing too many stories about problems with national installers who have to connection to the local community, the city inspectors,…

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