Oh gotcha, I misread another comment and thought you didn’t have anywhere to run the water. You can throw a drain box in, they make “socks” for them that are going to fill up pretty quickly with sediment but it’ll do the job for one area. You’d still have to connect it with solid pipe to the other run

Everyone has a good start, corrugated sock pipe inside french drain etc etc. Thats great, but the water doesn't have anywhere to be stored until it can disperse.

With that slope, and your downspout connected you're going to need to dig a basin if you cant get rid of the water somewhere else. NDS makes a really easy to use product called a flow-well that I've used hundreds of times with great results. It basically just lets you dig out a big hole and it'll hold like 50 gallons by itself. You're still going to have to wrap it in good weed fabric, I would always just dig a big hole and then line the hole, drop in the flow well, and backfill inside the fabric with 4" rock to make an even bigger basin.

That water is just gonna fill up a french drain that doesn't have anywhere to dump to, they aren't magical unfortuantely.

Looking at that slope, he's gonna have to put a basin in as well. That drain box is 10" deep and fills up really fast. the PVC "french drains" only work if they have somewhere to take the water.

I cant believe the doors snd windows were almost 2k. It's definitely way over-built as well, super great work above and beyond what most people would do

If the grout is intact and the water isn’t pooling on the tile anywhere it’s probably something to do with the drain/plumbing. If you’re tearing it out it shouldn’t be too hard to determine where the problem was. If you can’t find anything obvious I’d probably call someone with professional knowledge to take a look and see if they can identify the issue. It’d be more likely to be a spot where the floor meets the wall than just soaking through the grout unless it’s cracked.

Leaks like it’s seeping out from under the tiles? If everything is done right you shouldn’t get any leaks and grout should last for a long time. If it’s breaking up you can try replacing the grout, but it shouldn’t be a continuing issue in my experience

Of course, always smart to get more eyes on something, especially when you have potential forces involved. Yea I couldn’t quite tell from the pictures but I’m not sure how they’d even be helping anything. They don’t look like they travel enough to lift or close it lol. Most important skill for a diy/handyman to have in their pocket is knowing their limits. Lord knows I use it often!

Hard to see based on the pictures but I’m not even sure what the springs would be doing. Doesn’t look like they have enough travel to assist with the door lifting lol

Those you should just be able to pull out, like a trampoline spring. Doesn’t look like there’s much tension. If they’re too tight you could use a ratchet strap anchored to something like a truck hitch to expand them and give you some room. The dangerous springs are the long ones up too that have a tremendous amount of potential energy and shouldn’t be messed with by most people. The ones in the pictures don’t look like much of a danger to me, I could be wrong though

Looking again I’m pretty sure those are the exact same springs as trampolines, mostly harmless just easy to pinch yourself. The hardware suggests they were definitely installed diy

Maybe it’s the dryer, but I don’t remember ever buying a unit that had the cord installed. You always have to do it when the unit is boxed. They have everything very clearly labeled

I’m bad with electrical but the new lights are using more power and some safety feature cuts the power of it exceeds the amount it’s setup for maybe?

I’d see if insurance will cover it, though they’re touchy about long term damage. Renting humidifiers and fans is quite expensive and then you need to isolate the areas with plastic and run them for a long time. We caught a small flood right away and it took about a week for it all to dry out with about a dozen pieces of equipment and professional setup and monitoring. The tile (backer board really) didn’t even start to dry and had to come out.

Obviously their prices are inflated to make a profit but a smallish leak was able to do around $20k in damage in a day. It was running right onto a piece of exposed subfloor though

Making it flush with the drywall is an odd way to do it, usually it sticks out just the width of the tile. They could just set the tile and then another layer of drywall to bump the wall out to be flush with the tile. Probably the easiest way rather than framing in two different depths. Wouldn’t worry about the weight, 14lbs isn’t much across a spread area and if it’s fixed appropriately all the force is vertical which is going with the strength of the wall. This is American knowledge, so it’s possible I’m missing something

You’ll probably have better luck securing an anchor rather than just the string, if you don’t need much tension even a command strip might be enough