So our little yellow house had two heaters. One in the old portion of the house that heated that part and one in the attached garage that heated the additions. In October the one in the garage quit working. Of course it was just a few short weeks after our home warranty expired. Then the one in the old part quit working. We were there at the house for a long weekend so we called a repair man to look at them. The one in the garage was a $400 part and since we were going to replace it, we decided not to fix it. the one in the old house was plugged into an extension cord attached to a light socket for power. We discovered the plug had been unplugged and then plugged in upside down. Who knew that furnace power had polarity!! 😏 So it was an easy fix. This did leave us with out heat in the additions where we were going to be renovating!
Furnace in old house. We pulled one of the ducts to add heat to our living quarters. Forgot to take picture of garage furnace.
After we moved into the house it was one of our priorities to get a new furnace or two put into the house. We also wanted a gas fireplace installed and a heater/ac unit put in the shop. We called a friend from Cedar Hills who has a heating and cooling business. He came in and gave us a Quote: $$$$$$$$$$$$$ Thank goodness we had figured enough into the budget. We decided to go with one furnace to heat the whole house. He said they could start the next week.
Before installation we had to do some prep work. We had to drop all the sheetrock out of the ceilings as this is where the ducting ran. Check - that was done. We also had to clean out some eaves to get better access for the ducting between the new house and old house.
This is one of the eaves after we cleaned it. You can see the old roof that they just left in place and added the new roof over it.
This is one of the eaves we had to clean out. Miah and Brady were down so Miah helped me to get it cleaned out. We had to remove insulation, wiring and leftover junk. In this eave we found a fully functioning light socket with light and pull string buried in the insulation. We also found old bathroom fans and more wiring junction boxes just buried in the walls and insulation. By code they are supposed to be exposed for access.
Perry framed for the fireplace.
AND then they came to start the work. It took them about two weeks. We left for one of those weeks and went to Hawaii with Zach and his family.
And shortly after we returned we had heat and AC and a fireplace.
Perry's shop heater/ac.⇩
They also ran the gas line for my kitchen stove and the gas line for our BBQ on the porch. Yea!! Perry can BBQ, less dishes for me!
AND THUS BEGAN THE RECONSTRUCTING INSTEAD OF THE DEMO AND FIXING!!
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