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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 of the day cleaning up the wall where the sink goes. He moved the electrical outlet for the ...

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 house. The line itself is a ½”diameter PEX tube that provides a return path for ...

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, we also decided to add a radiant heating system to both floors.  Suddenly, ...

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 framing details in the kitchen.  Both the baking area and the breakfast nook now ...

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 ...