Home maintenance is 98% keeping the water where it belongs and out of where it doesn’t.
After decades of it, any deviation, whether sound or creak or mark or moisture, gets my immediate attention like a frugal, OCD prairie dog intent on minimizing the cost of whatever impending home disaster is about to cost it thousands of dollars.
It’s funny because they don’t have the self awareness to even ask themselves that question! Hahaha ha. Ha. ha