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Home Improvement
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Site Name
Home Improvement
Description
Questions about renovating, repairing, maintaining and building one's own home.
Topics
Topics covered would include:
- Any questions pertaining to work on a personal home
- Electrical work
- Plumbing
- Construction
- Repair/maintenance of any other systems within a house or other dwelling
- Questions about the Building Code as it applies to practical work
- Questions about interior design
- Homesteading and livestock kept for personal use
Exclusions
These topics or types of posts would be out of scope:
- Purely legal questions regarding official compliance with building regulation (should go to a legal-focused section)
- Purely financial questions, such as mortgage loans
- Real estate investment
- Questions about being a landlord or Airbnb operator
- Questions about commercial real estate, such as hotels, business, corporate farms
Special Features
One potential category would be tool, material and style (of furniture, paint, house construction type) recommendations. Not sure yet if there is enough interest in this - I think we should wait to accumulate enough questions first.
Another idea is project showcase: A place to brag about finished projects.
Overlaps
- Electrical engineering: Questions about wiring, electric appliances, safety
- Arts & Crafts: Questions about various DIY remodeling
- Legal (doesn't exist yet, but probably will): Questions about what is legally permitted/required in a given jurisdiction - should be off-topic on Home Improvement
- Money/finance (doesn't exist yet, but probably will): Questions about mortgages, what kind of loan can be used for renovations, return on investment, budgeting - should be off-topic on Home Improvement
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