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You know, the ones why you wonder why no one noticed they were a bad idea before construction was finished.
I'm happy with my new house but really have to wonder why it never occurred to anyone that putting the thermostat for the furnace directly next to the oven with only a four inch wall between them wasn't that smart.
Anytime I bake, the thermostat decides that it is plenty warm in the house and it turns off the heat to the entire house.
How about your house? Did your architect or contractor have a brain blip and put something in an awkward place?
The stairwell to the basement is too short (run vs rise).
To compensate and create extra headroom at the bottom they built a 'pedestal' above
the last few steps. This is in the kitchen and where the refrigerator goes.
It works (unless you're really short) but took a while to get used to.
In my last house, a tri-level with 4th level basement, the tstat was at the top of the stairs to upper level. Nice for keeping the bedrooms warm, but the dining room was freezing.
So t-stat was relocated to a dining room wall (with the refrig on other side.)
It was easy since we had the open basement.
In another house, where the kitchen was cantilevered out from the crawl-space foundation about 24", the sink was on the exterior wall. If temps were much below 0, we had to leave cabinet doors open and/or install heat tapes, or pipes would freeze, even with insulation stuffed in the joist spaces. Stove was on interior wall. They should/could have swapped them.
The stairwell to the basement is too short (run vs rise).
To compensate and create extra headroom at the bottom they built a 'pedestal' above
the last few steps. This is in the kitchen and where the refrigerator goes.
It works (unless you're really short) but took a while to get used to.
In my parents house the extra headroom for the stairs is in a bedroom closet, it's only a small one door closet, the floor of closet is slanted. I guess it's better than taking up room in that bedroom, it's small, only room for a single bed and small dresser if you want room to walk.
My home, a split level, thermostat is centered on the wall coming upstairs, it could have been over one way 2 ft and I would have been able to hang a nice picture there... It's one of those thy on my lists of things to do someday.
My small house has one bedroom downstairs and a loft and guest bedroom upstairs. Both bathrooms are located in the bedrooms (have to walk through a bedroom to get to the bathroom). The house was designed this way. It's only 20 years old.
My small house has one bedroom downstairs and a loft and guest bedroom upstairs. Both bathrooms are located in the bedrooms (have to walk through a bedroom to get to the bathroom). The house was designed this way. It's only 20 years old.
ISTM that is a long-time building code violation in most areas At least 1 bath must be accessible w/o going thru another room.
In my parents house the extra headroom for the stairs is in a bedroom closet, it's only a small one door closet, the floor of closet is slanted. I guess it's better than taking up room in that bedroom, it's small, only room for a single bed and small dresser if you want room to walk.
There is closet like that in my parents home but the it's full closet and the part above the stairs is at an angle to it. The previous owner put in some shelves that would be like really high and wide steps.
You know, the ones why you wonder why no one noticed they were a bad idea before construction was finished.
I'm happy with my new house but really have to wonder why it never occurred to anyone that putting the thermostat for the furnace directly next to the oven with only a four inch wall between them wasn't that smart.
Anytime I bake, the thermostat decides that it is plenty warm in the house and it turns off the heat to the entire house.
How about your house? Did your architect or contractor have a brain blip and put something in an awkward place?
Hire an electrician to relocate the thermostat.
But, to answer your question....Quality control sometimes is lacking with building imo
In our house, all three upstairs rooms (two bedrooms and a bath) have no heat ducts. They just have those radiant heating panels in the ceiling. It is a bad setup for this climate, because since there's no thermostat, it took a lot of guesswork and trial and error to find the exact settings that work on, say a 30 degree night vs. a -15 degree night, and I still sometimes wake up either frozen or sweating. It's not that bad in the bedroom that I use for my office, but I don't like it at all for sleeping, and I think it was a stupid choice.
Also, I don't know if this is normal, but we have a sunroom area with not one single electrical outlet. And this house was built in the 1980s, so it's not like they didn't know about electricity.
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At least 1 bath must be accessible w/o going thru another room.
