Copper

I did not have “gutters” on my bingo card.

I had “stop the basement humidity smell” and “why is that corner of siding always dirty” and “please don’t let water be getting behind something.”

Then I stood outside in a light rain like an idiot and watched one run of gutter do the waterfall-to-nowhere thing.

So yeah. Gutters.

This post is the Notes app version: the little sentences that made the number go up and down.

I keep a Notes app page called REPIPE??

It’s mostly numbers, little warnings to myself, and the occasional: “do NOT let anyone open the wall and then go ‘oh btw…’”

A whole-house repipe is not a cute little “replace a pipe.”

It’s a relationship with drywall.

It’s also a project that can look predictable from far away (“just run new lines”) and then turn into a million micro-decisions the minute somebody is actually in your crawlspace.