Life in the Time of COVID: Managing the Money Pit
Who benefits when you're staying clo se to home–all the time? Could be the home itself. When you're out and about, it's easy to get distracted and ignore signs that the house needs some attention. But when you spend the lion's share of your time at home, it becomes daunting. The most urgent task was determining the source of a significant water leak and then fixing it. Was it in the pool? The hot tub? The water feature? Worst case (most expensive to repair) scenario, was it under the concrete? Long story short, it took nearly 6 months to figure out that it wasn't the pool (yay) , it wasn't the water feature (yay) , and it wasn't something under the concrete (major yay, I hope) . We still haven't found the source, but we're closing in with help of professional leak detectors ( of course) . Although the water feature wasn't the cause of the mystery leak, it did need to be revised before becoming a major problem. The lining had to be repl