Tom Eagar 80-year-old home renovation (Spring 2016)

Personal anecdote, surfaces twice. In §5 it anchors the electric-vehicle infrastructure cost discussion (three driveway outlets being wired during a down-to-the-studs renovation). In §7 it anchors the cast-iron sewer pipe corrosion-replacement point and the plastic-vs-cast-iron longevity comparison. Real-time during this lecture: "they just started digging out the basement."

I'm rebuilding my house right now. They just started digging out the basement. This is an 80-year-old home. If you go up to the first floor, the second floor, you can see right through the house. They took all the walls off — all you see is studs. As they're rebuilding it, I'm going to have three electrical outlets at my driveway. I don't have an electric vehicle now, and I couldn't buy one because I'd have to pay one or two thousand dollars to put an outlet in my driveway or my garage. Since I'm having the whole house rewired, I'm putting in three of them. I've traditionally owned three cars — one for my wife, one for myself, and one to go in the shop. When my kids were around, we had three cars — we didn't want to drive them to high school. Now we're empty nesters, I have one so that we can go to the shop.

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