I recently purchased a new home construction house. The homebuilders try to save anywhere they can so that's the "optional" part. My community forces the builders to put gutters on the front and back and sod in the backyard. So, my house had no gutters along the side and was my responsibility after closing. They also forced my homebuilder to install a sprinkler system. There are many areas where new home construction only has gutters in the front, no backyard sod, and no sprinkler system.
Ziggy probably needs to see how much things improve after the COH finishes the project that they are working on. The product that he will be using seems closer to what stores use when they have water drips/leaks rather than a bladder system intended for multiple uses outdoors. One example of a small bladder. DIVERSION TUBE Pictures of bladder systems for large projects. Aqua-Barrier®
It's amazing how wonky some of these new homes are compared to even stuff built just 10-20 years ago. A lot of the homes they're building now don't have windows that open/close. I never noticed it until I asked a sales guy and he basically admitted 1) It was for looks and 2) It was a cost saving. These are the same people that try to get you to get the $8k-$17k sliding or accordion door option for your patio instead of the normal door and windows. Like you're going to open that thing more than 5 times a year. You're either going to be living in a swamp or get devoured by killer mosquitoes or bugs at least 10 months of the year with that massive door open. lol. Won't even get into how a 60' lot is "oversized".
Things can always be worse. The true hellhole of the world for more reasons than one goes to Basrah-Hussen Iraq, where it reached 124 degrees today. The other extreme was -96.9 degrees in Concordia, Antarctica.
It's the lowered expectations that come with the reality of the economy we live in. Houses are getting smaller and worse and it's just now starting. Don't worry, we millennials don't need living rooms anyway
My grandparents built a home in Houston that was before central AC- the design of the home's ventalation, insulation and air flow made it bearable with a mere box fan in the ceiling.
Not sure why you would have a car and live down there. Surfside has been eroding into the gulf for as long as I can remember. A friend of mine inherited his grandmother’s beach house- when he was a kid it was 3rd row from the beach, now it’s beach front (hmmm…may be in the water now, it’s been a few years) There are two reasons to have a 4x4 in Houston: getting out of high water and going off road to get to the feeder when there’s miles and miles of gridlock from a wreck or construction (or an evacuation panic)
Roadies to beaches, lakes, towns, general outdoors. Nobody will judge you by your testicles, other than your wife and she tells me they look "adequate"
Yeah, I guess that brings us back to the point of having a 4x4 in a beach town that is sinking into the sea. My 4x4 is also adequate.
Major flooding in the upper Midwest with several communities flooding in Minnesota and Iowa. A dam failed south of the Twin Cities.
