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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.  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 ...

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 coat on the exterior side and edges of the back door and put the first coat on the front ...

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 ...

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 refinish the doors.  I've narrowed it down to using spar varnish or ...