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New sunroom = more basement
For several years, my wife, Diane, and I have considered adding a sunroom onto to the back of our house. Finally, in early 2021, we asked ourselves, what are we waiting for? Both in our mid 60s, we figured that if we were ever going to do it, now was the time. A local contractor was consulted, and plans were drawn up, with construction to begin that summer.
Following one of our monthly operating sessions on my 1:72 Colorado & Southern Clear Creek District layout, featured in Model Railroad Planning 2018, I told my operating crew about the house addition coming in a couple months. One of the guys asked, “You are putting a basement under the addition, aren’t you?” I probably had a blank look on my face when…
