Ideas allow humans to survive. And necessity is the mother of invention. When someone really needs to come up with an idea sometimes they do. And often these ideas save the human race from either extinction as a species or individuals from death or give people the ideas they need to stay alive. I like to say that life or God has made us this way that we often come up with amazing ideas when we most need to. And often one is very frustrated up right until the idea comes up. For example, one of our next projects in our home was to change the French doors. Our first idea was to make them wood but since I live near the ocean wooden French doors might not be the best. So, we considered vinyl doors or plastic fake wood doors for example. But because the house is on a spring we have a French drain around the back yard so water won't pool up under the house and cause problems. In the winter it is nice because most of the time I never have to water my front yard because the spring waters it as long as there is enough rain. But this also causes another problem which is the settling of the house because a spring will move the smaller parts of the topsoil through and out of your land as the water moves on. So, then a carpenter told us not to put on vinyl doors because when the house settles the more you would have to plane off the doors so they will fit some places and you can't plane off vinyl doors. So, we put off changing the doors. But because we put off changing the doors the handles stopped working right. So then the handles came off inside which are French handles. So I put them near the door because they wouldn't stay on. It was like this for about 6 months and was sort of a pain. Then recently I realized I could tie twine onto a handle and tie the door handles to it. This way the handles stay with the door but sometimes are hanging and also are there all the time to make the doors open. So, recently someone said, "Get fiberglass doors that are planable. It was a General Contractor working on our other home elsewhere. So, one by one good ideas come forth in their own timing. You just never know when a good idea will show up and change everything for the better.
Later, couple of days:
So, in the instance of the doors for example it is not about money because that is not the issue. Instead it is doing something that doesn't have to be redone 5 times or more because we choose the wrong medium to solve the problem long term. Another issue I have is with tile cracking on the floor of my my large shower area. I really love the old clawfoot bathtubs:
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However, now I'm noticing one piece of tile chipping on the floor to the shower room I wanted to put it in that is enclosed but large enough to put a clawfoot into. My original idea was to just let the water drain out of the clawfoot onto the tile and down the tiled shower drain. I thought that would be fun and use a Grohe gold hand held like I have there along with a standard shower head. But, then I noticed a tile on the floor chipping out for no reason? At first I asked my wife if she dropped something on the floor and chipped the tile? But no, neither of us had done that. So, then I realized that likely there is an internal leak around the back of the stationary shower head and it likely has leaked down or there was a long term leak in the drain and possibly caused the flooring to rot out which might be the reason the tile is chipping because the floor in that one spot might be slowly sinking? Anyway, since I think this is likely I won't put a Clawfoot in there yet because someone probably needs to go under the house and look there. However, that section of the house is very hard to get into because I'm 6 foot 5 under that area. But still, it has to be done for my safety and my wife's safety if that actually is the cause because we have lived in this house since 1999 so that is now 14 or 15 years and since we haven't done any remodeling since we first moved in it is likely there is now work we need to do besides painting the outside of the house which we did last summer for the first time since we moved in in 1999. So, thinking about these things is helpful in keeping your home both safe and up to date in all ways possible.
Another thing I realized last night:
For example I was watching PBS tonight. I never knew that Fairchild Semiconductors made the first Microprocessor that led to home computers and everything else computerized and even the new drones you hear about lately. But it all started in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Silicon Valley at Fairchild Semiconductors.
In 1966 I got interested in College of being a computer programmer so I began to work in the field in 1968 and 1969. But back then there was no Ram and no microprocessors yet and no home computers not even desktops yet. Even my first home computer, a TRS-80 from Radio Shack wasn't available until 1978 and even then was only a 4k computer. It wasn't even a megabyte computer yet and ran programs with a cassette tape reader that I mostly wrote and saved myself as games for my kids to learn to program their own games with in Basic computer language. So, ideas often are on a "Necessity is the mother of invention" kind of timing for most humans here on earth.
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