Re: Corned Beef Brisket (and a mild rant)

On 2025-03-16, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> wrote:

Cindy Hamilton wrote:

songbird wrote:

...

  we don't have a lot of space for extras. 

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Basement.  The builder of this house went to a lot of trouble
in 1947 to dig a basement.  It was so much trouble, he put
a crawlspace under the living and dining rooms.  But the
three bedrooms, bathroom, and kitchen are over a basement.
>
My previous house had no basement.  That was an absolute
must-have when I bought this house.

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  not when you live in an area that used to be a swamp.

That was my second house.  The one that made me say "never again".
The one where we spent a few quality hours on Valentine's Day 1999
in the crawl space snaking out a clogged pipe.  He wielded the
snake, I pushed buckets of stuff (luckily kitchen stuff, but still
not nice) across the crawlspace and out the hatch, then carried
them behind an outbuilding and dumped them.

Nope.  Ready access to all off the house's systems is a requirement.
The electric lines and furnace ducts running through the partial
crawlspace of my current house can fend for themselves now (and are
not likely to need maintenance again in our lifetimes).  The plumbing
is within easy reach from the unfinished basement.

--
Cindy Hamilton