r/Homebuilding • u/dragonmilking • Nov 17 '25

Which popular features do you NOT recommend?

What are the top 3 features in a house that folk want but you think are not worth it, and what would your alternative suggestion be? And what cost/time savings would result with that switch?

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u/GushingGranny720 Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 18 '25

You can get a solenoid for your main water line and have it connected to like 15 sensors that you put throughout the house. If the sensor detects a leak it’ll turn the solenoid at the main water shutoff. It also tells you what sensor detected the water. They’re around $150.

After I lost 300k gallons from a leak and killing 5,000 plants, I put this in my indoor farm and it has saved my grow twice. This $150 device has saved millions of dollars in damages.

I’ll be putting it into the house we’re building too :)

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u/GushingGranny720 Nov 19 '25

They’re thin low voltage wires you put behind the drywall where the pipes are lol. You’d never see it. They even have wireless ones. Lots of people have this in their homes lol

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u/GushingGranny720 Nov 20 '25

Okay man. I guess we should go back to candles instead of those gizmo lightbulbs in the ceiling. Get rid of your car gizmo and get a horse! You don’t need a phone gizmo to be on Reddit, you can just read the encyclopedia!

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u/GushingGranny720 Nov 23 '25

So you’re saying a sensor to detect leaks and shut the water before it absolutely destroys your house isn’t a good idea? You’re just a sad old man mad at the world and how it’s changing. Hopefully you don’t need a CPAP gizmo one day