Genius Hour

 Hello everyone and welcome back!  This week I decided to create a more comprehensive plan. Although I have some experience with renovations, a laundry room added quite a few extra components that I needed to familiarize myself with. To ensure I wasn't forgetting anything important I decided to research all of my basic requirements. After watching Bunning Warehouses How to Design A Laundry Room - DIY At Bunnings video on youtube, I had a clearing understanding of the preparation needed.  Many of you, like myself might think that the flooring or paint color has to all be planned out ahead of time but it doesn't. To begin building a laundry room you need to create a floor plan of all your appliances, counters and shelving. Although they will be the last thing installed, you will have no idea where to put any of your plumbing, electrical or HVAC needed for the units to work. Not creating a coherent plan will cost yourself a lot of money later on.  Since I like to keep m...

 Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! This blog will be used to showcase my genius hour project for EDBE 8P73 at Brock University. What is genius hour you may ask? Genius hour is a project where students are allowed to spend 20% of their classroom time to explore their own passions. When trying to decide what to do for my genius hour I was stumped. For years my family has neglected our laundry room as none of us had the knowledge to build one from scratch. This left me wondering if I could build my family a laundry room that follows all the code requirements in just 6 weeks if I spent my genius hour time learning to do so. Formulated my genius hour question, "Can I learn how to prepare and build a new laundry room at my house in 6 weeks". The overall goal for my project is to design and construct my family a laundry room that helps make laundry less boring. To complete my goal I will need to research Ontario's building code to ensure all my plumbing, electrical and HVAC...