Does adding city water increase home value?
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Comments (25)Soil pH is a measure of the "potential Hydrogen" in the soil. In soils with low pH there are more free hydrogen ions while in soils with a high pH there are few. If you need to decrease the number of hydrogen ions Calcium Carbonate (CaCo3, lime) has been found to be the best way to do that while adding sulfur will increase the number of hydrogen ion. Rain water typically is acidic and has, over time, lowered the pH of some soils and some bodies of water. Most all municipal water systems add, in addition to Chloramine and Floride, something to make that water close to neutral since water very acidic or alkaline simply does not taste good. Adding Gypsum to soils that are not sodic is usually a waste of time....See MoreIncreasing Water 'Churn' in Self-Watering Containers
Comments (10)Sounds interesting. As someone who built the EarthTainers first time this year and has been using rain barrel water to painstakingly fill the tubes everyday, I wonder if it is better for my sanity to use pressurized municipal water and the AWS to feed the units everyday. It really wasn't so bad to fill 8 each day (three are nested 5-gallon bucket tainers), but as the summer has moved along and we got more rain than usual the systems became overloaded one week with too much water, tomato leaves yellowed and died. I began to question if I was over-filling from that point forward and still question it as we transition into the arid, dry autumns that put us water restriction in these parts. I noticed my tomatoes are not growing as large as they had in the beginning. Each tomato is about the size of a handball now, when in the beginning they were baseball to softball-sized. Since the over-watering with additional rain from the sky I think I reached some point of no return, so the system has remained too wet and certain varieties of tomato plants have not fared as well as others. I wonder if I add 4 gallons of perlite to each mix in each EarthTainer next year.. if that will help keep a drier mix. Will that make over-watering (either by your action or the weater) more forgiving?...See MoreBest way to increase appraisal value of land- pole barn or pond?
Comments (26)All the "what's nice" talk is really besides the point. The OP is building new and wants to maximize the appraisal in a crazy market. The ONLY winning strategy is to save whatever money they were going to spend on these improvements and hold that cash until they close on their permanent mortgage. The cash will be MUCH more valuable than a barn or pond at that point. It is SOOOOOOO much easier to close a deal by plunking down $50,000 in cash vs trying to argue about the worth of a barn. Once the appraisal is over and the mortgage process is complete, then the OP can start with any additions. At that point, if you are cash flowing any improvements, you should just order them in terms of what you value the most....See MoreAdding addition to smaller home in neighborhood of larger homes
Comments (31)I don't know if this helps BUT we bought a MCM-ish house on an acre 2.5 years ago. The house was designed and built by a non-renowned architect in the early 60s. It is 4600 square feet. Out of the 10 or so houses on our street, a couple are smaller, most are the same and a couple are more like 6000-7000. Most people thought of the house we bought as a tear--down. We are just finishing up a to-the-studs remodel. We haven't changed the exterior much at all. We love lower ceilings. I would never buy a house with high ceilings. I especially would dislike an addition with too-high ceilings. 9' is good. We have a butterfly roof so part of our ceiling is 11'6" and I was really stressed about it. I'm only okay with it because it's mostly in public/non-bedroom area and at least some of the ceiling in our house is low. We would have loved a house in the 3500sq ft range. I think it's very very desirable. Add-on if it would increase your happiness while you live there, though. I will say that if you are interested in resale, many purists would have a problem with the addition no matter what you choose unless you are super super consistent with the rest of the house and what the original architect would do. We met with four architects. I would encourage you to meet with more architects! You never know, the right idea could really clarify things for you!...See Moresushipup1
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