Renovation (Week 7)
Today we got to see the result of last week's craziness. The new furnace is installed, and it's about a third of the size of our previous one. Supposedly the previous one was actually an oil furnace that had been converted to gas a long time ago. It was old, maybe 30 or 40 years old. The new ducts are much less obtrusive than the older vents. This means that the horrible duct going across the basement, the one that everyone knocks their head on, can be removed. The new furnace is a Trane XR90, which is 91% efficient, probably double the efficiency of our old guy.
In the attic they've installed a piece of plywood where an electrical socket and the transformer for the low voltage lights in the kitchen have been mounted. The smurf tube also terminates there.
When everyone is gone, and any little comment doesn't cost me fifteen hundred dollars, I'm going to drop some networking cable in the smurf tube, mount a little shelf to that plywood, and install my wireless router there. Hopefully that will extend the wifi reception deep into the backyard.
The punchdown block is now full of the Cat-6, but not yet actually a real panel. Each of the pairs is labeled with the room and there are two colors per drop (the electricians are so thoughtful).
We also now have french doors in the back and a bunch of new windows that can actually be opened; What a concept!
The old door has now been re-hung and installed in its new location. When the cabinet maker was at the house for a meeting with us a while back he mentioned how much he liked the door. He said that it was probably Honduran Mahogany and made sure that we were going to keep it. When it was taken to the door people they also commented on how nice of a door it was, they said that they couldn't even get wood like that anymore, and the closest thing wouldn't be as good, and would cost around $3500. It feels a lot better knowing that we decided to spent $400 having it re-hung rather than the $800 for a new door.
The rest of the photos can be found here.
In the attic they've installed a piece of plywood where an electrical socket and the transformer for the low voltage lights in the kitchen have been mounted. The smurf tube also terminates there.
When everyone is gone, and any little comment doesn't cost me fifteen hundred dollars, I'm going to drop some networking cable in the smurf tube, mount a little shelf to that plywood, and install my wireless router there. Hopefully that will extend the wifi reception deep into the backyard.
The punchdown block is now full of the Cat-6, but not yet actually a real panel. Each of the pairs is labeled with the room and there are two colors per drop (the electricians are so thoughtful).
We also now have french doors in the back and a bunch of new windows that can actually be opened; What a concept!
The old door has now been re-hung and installed in its new location. When the cabinet maker was at the house for a meeting with us a while back he mentioned how much he liked the door. He said that it was probably Honduran Mahogany and made sure that we were going to keep it. When it was taken to the door people they also commented on how nice of a door it was, they said that they couldn't even get wood like that anymore, and the closest thing wouldn't be as good, and would cost around $3500. It feels a lot better knowing that we decided to spent $400 having it re-hung rather than the $800 for a new door.
The rest of the photos can be found here.
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