The Super Official Homeowners Thread

[Ryan T]

Along the same lines as DJ, if there is one thing I can add as someone who remodeled my entire home myself; think ahead, like 3 or 4 steps ahead. We went all gung-ho into putting up the drywall in our basement back in the spring without thinking about changing outlets, figured I'd do it later. Come to find out that adding the thickness of drywall to the paneling already there didn't leave me enough slack in the old outlets to pull them out and replace them. So our nice blue walls and white trim were left with black outlets. Only option left besides butchering the drywall is to change the covers and paint the outlets themselves.

There's a thread covering most of my remodel and work in the projects thread, but this will be a great thread for people to ask homeowner related maintenance/service questions!