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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 ...
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#3: Post edited
by
Karl Knechtel
·
2023-12-11T13:28:38Z (12 months ago)
style the site title in title case, to match other proposals
Home improvement
- Home Improvement
#2: Post edited
by
matthewsnyder
·
2023-07-06T02:53:34Z (over 1 year ago)
Many questions about home improvement projects are off-topic in other communities, e.g. a question about whether the U.S. National Electric Code allows splicing of low-voltage wiring in a normally-inaccessible area is off-topic for the Electrical Engineering community, which currently seems to be the closest-related community for questions on electrical work.This community would handle questions related to electrical work, plumbing, construction, and repair/maintenance of any other systems within a house or other dwelling.The expected userbase for the community would be broadly the same as users from the Home Improvement SE site.
- ### 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
#1: Initial revision
by
matthewsnyder
·
2023-07-06T02:38:04Z (over 1 year ago)
Home improvement
Many questions about home improvement projects are off-topic in other communities, e.g. a question about whether the U.S. National Electric Code allows splicing of low-voltage wiring in a normally-inaccessible area is off-topic for the Electrical Engineering community, which currently seems to be the closest-related community for questions on electrical work. This community would handle questions related to electrical work, plumbing, construction, and repair/maintenance of any other systems within a house or other dwelling. The expected userbase for the community would be broadly the same as users from the Home Improvement SE site.