If you are financially challenged I do like Owbist's suggestion. However, if not please consider purchasing new if it becomes necessary. A new one would allow you to contaminate the keyboard with your desired drink, food, pet hair or other debris rather than having to be saddled with the tastes of the prior owner. Does a single click on the Inbox entries followed by a click on the Delete button on the Toolbar work? DA

Everything needs to come up....including porcelain tile. A warranty breach (ie. it is not covered) means NO ONE will help you. I guarantee it. If you expose any of these to ++ heat = no warranty = no one will help you. If you do not have humidity levels set properly = no warranty = no one will help you. If you do not pay to have the subfloors made to MANUFACTURE'S REQUIREMENTS = no warranty = no one will help you. I have not met a retailer who will step in and LOSE MONEY because a homeowner's house can't keep the floor inside the warranty claim. No one will help you unless you pay for it. Warranties are there to tell the HOMEOWNER how to keep their floors happy. It is rarely used to compensate a homeowner for a faulty product (less than 1% of claims would end up as accepted warranty claims). Why? Because the house or the INSTALLER voided 99.9999% of all warranty concerns with installation.

First things first: make sure the HVAC has full humidity control capacity. In many climates the A/C can control summer humidity quite nicely. In other areas (like Eastern Seaboard) the A/C isn't enough to keep the summer humidity (in the house) below 60%. The winter humidity (maintaining it UP) can be the bigger issue. Just make sure your HVAC does BOTH for your area.

@melissean, Yes, they actually did build the roof first and then cut through to put in the dormer; I guess it was easier and maybe more structurally sound to do it that way (?) The reason I originally thought the dormer was fake is that I had no idea they were going to do that, and from the plans, it looked like it was completely separate from the attic. I think our builder made that executive decision, and I am glad hedid, as it adds a little light to the attic. As an aside, you might also notice that we did not end up with a metal roof as we'd planned: the cost + labor ended up being over 3x that of asphalt during the worst of the supply-chain issues (and steel tariffs) in 2021, and there was no way we could afford it. We are very happy with how everything turned out regardless. I like your front elevation with the dormer but am not knowledgeable enough to know how it would look if you just leave the window as-is. Our windows are pretty reflective on the outside as it is and reflect the surrounding woods - so much so that we do have problems with birds hitting the ones in the back where our feeders are. So I am not sure you need to do anything but just leave it as is. One thing I have learned now, being over 2 years out from moving in, is that all the little details we sweated over, mostly don't matter now. Once you see the house as a whole, you don't notice a lot of the small stuff but more of the big picture. I agree that the front facade is important, but I bet yours will look just fine. There will be so many other things to catch the eye besides that one dormer.