Man, I feel this. I once spent a whole weekend crawling around up there, convinced I needed more insulation, only to find a bathroom fan vent just blo...

Couldn't agree more on the transparency point. When we redid our roof, the guy we chose was a smaller contractor who showed up in a beat-up pickup—ser...

Totally agree about ventilation being a sneaky culprit. Had a similar experience myself—spent hours convinced I had a leak, only to find out it was co...

You're definitely onto something with the coffee-stained notebook...mine's usually a random stack of sticky notes that inevitably disappear when I nee...