During a bad economy it is almost impossible to find anyone that is enlarging their business or starting a new business.

The starirs would need to be sprial due to space restraints, so $7500 and window enlargement around $1500-2karound Fed 15th: I call Mass State Smoke Inspection office and ask if Fire PD should be enforcing building codes as part of smoke cert.

The three biggest ones being: configuration of a bathroom I'm enlarging, whether to open up a kitchen and lose cabinet space, and how to best convert a laundry room (I want to move washer/dryer to garage and either use that space to extend kitchen or put in a half-bath).  

On the front of the house, there is a large picture window that is too low - I'm planning on replacing it with a smaller window, which will allow me to enlarge the kitchen by running cabinets in front of the window.I have a budget of $40,000, and this is a house where I hope I can finally get it done under budget.The numbers are as follows:Purchase: $431,000Renovation: $40,000Other costs: $47,000Anticipated Sale price: $560,000 (I believe it will sell between $530,000 - $600,000)Anticipated profit: $40,000Pictures - Before!

You can look to the sq ft requirements of a sleeping area per person and if that area can not be enlarged by rearranging the furniture for example, then you may say there is only the legal space for one person for sleeping.

I have some friends (she designs/he builder) who will take a boring house and enlarge the panty and master closet, add a few retro accent walls and wala.

I've seen many properties where the entire structure was enlarged, usually in violation of the required setbacks or boundaries.  

Jon, any way to give a link to the article or enlarge it, can't read it, it's smaller than the fine print on an Tylenol bottle. 

The house across the street of mine had the toilets broken and cement pored down the drains.

If poring a glass of water directly into the drain hole not touching anything else I think it's pretty safe to say your leak is on the drain line somewhere.What kind of piping?