We had 2 evenings of chaos at our house last week. The HVAC guys had to fit us in between other jobs, and so had to come from about 4-8pm or so. They were placing the ducts for our new central air/furnace for the upstairs AND punching through to the rooms downstairs, so that we can use that system to cool the whole house in the summer. This is one of the added bonuses of doing the remodel - no more lugging 2 giant window AC units up from the basement every spring and down every fall. Plus it'll be a 1000x more efficient way to cool the house- ok slight exaggeration, but much, much more efficient. Given the 3 rooms upstairs, they had to figure out a way to get the very large ducts from the knee-wall space where the unit will be to each of the rooms above and below. One of them will be encased in a low shelf in our closet:
This then splits and the duct on the left goes to the living room downstairs, and the one on the right goes across the front of the house, which will be under our window seat - this unfortunately limits the storage space we thought we would have under that seat, but the floor joists change direction in that part of the house, making it difficult for them to go under the floor.
The vents going downstairs are fairly unobtrusive, small and circular things on the ceiling. The larger return air vent in the dining room isn't that bad either.
We also had a bit of a scare on Friday - our builder had an eye injury involving a nail...but it turned out to be just a corneal scratch and he should be good to go by Monday. Next up, the electrical and plumbing inspections, then we move on to insulation.
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