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That's been our expression this weekend. It's been a productive weekend & we're finishing up quite a few projects that seem like milestones and are ''huge'' to us. The radiant floor got hooked up on Friday (and it works!), we plumbed in the drain for the kitchen sink and dishwasher, framed in the new coat closet and now we're working on ...

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.  With that, we were free to begin framing, and we did! In the last couple ...

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 Nick's dad was here.  Basically, we screwed extruded aluminum plates ...

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 needed to complete for that project.  Similarly, my dad is arriving on the 15th for ...