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The rain moved us indoors yesterday so we couldn't pull the baseboards outside for sanding and paint. So we turned our attention to the laundry room. The utility sink hasn't been reinstalled since we had all the work done on the boiler. Nick spent most
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The punch-list to the drywall stage is thinning out. The other night I installed the recirculation line for our DHW (Domestic Hot Water) line. The purpose of this line is to provide nearly instantaneous hot water at any of the fixtures throughout the
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It became clear to us pretty early in our remodel that the plumbing in our house would need to be completely overhauled. The master plan called for essentially two new bathrooms, and a reconfigured kitchen. What other plumbing does a house have? Well,
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Day two wasn’t nearly as productive as Day 1. I spent most of yesterday between projects, contemplating (or procrastinating?) what to do next. In-between these long periods of silence I had several short bursts of efficiency, primarily finishing up some
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Two long days (12hrs yesterday!) later and we made some definitive progress over the weekend. The tubing for the radiant floor is now complete - we snapped the last loops into their tracks on Saturday and hooked all 6 loops to the manifold on Sunday morning.
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One of the major aspects of our remodel is the radiant floor heating we're adding to our 1st and 2nd floors. On the 1st floor we're using a system called Quick Trak, and for the 2nd floor we're using Joist Trak. We installed the Joist Trak last week when
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Saturday Nick ran the cold water pipe to the laundry room so it is ready for the boiler installation. The soldering went pretty well- he says it's messier than he'd like, but we don't have any leaks and I think it looks great. I put the second and third
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The last couple of weeks around our jobsite, er – “house”, have been non-stop busy with projects. Our radiant heating contractor, Paul Pollets, is arriving between the 14th and 18th to install our new boiler, and there are a number of prerequisites we’ve
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It was a productive weekend. We raised the beam(Nick will post about this project soon) and the gas pipe for the boiler has been re-routed and is ready to go. Our new doors arrive tomorrow so now it's time to clean up the shop so I will have a space to
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