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| Here's the old furnace, exposed. The wood flooring surrounding it was removed earlier. Shortly, Greg will go down into the basement to disconnect the gas and pull off some heavy attachments to lighten it. |
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| This flooring will reappear someday. Exactly where, we don't know. (Pull the nails from the underside to preserve the finished side.) |
Jennifer and her team tore into the living room floor today, yanking up dusty, brittle floorboards and revealing an old wavy subfloor, readying the site for next weekend. . . when a modern engineered truss system will be bolted onto the century-old foundation. A new leveled subfloor will lay atop it.
Over there in the old kitchen, 150 square feet of spruce (or similar) tongue-in-groove flooring was salvaged today and set aside in the big garage for later use.
In the midst of the project, an ancient and inefficient heating plant waited its turn, as ever, firmly planted, flush to the floor. It has performed faithfully for generations, children stood on it cold mornings and felt the glorious heat wafting through their clothes. Today it was time for it to be retired, disconnected and removed. . . and perhaps offered for sale.
It will soon be replaced with an efficient in-floor heating system, powered by hot water circulating back and forth under the new floor, radiating warmth from the bottom up.
There was nothing cozy about the construction area today, when Stan and Greg reported for duty, ready to take directions from the project superintendent.
Eventually they performed the coup de grace… after a few screws were turned and the gas shut off in the basement, they hoisted the old furnace from its moorings, making a big hole in the floor.
There's just no turning back now. Onward. . . .
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Photo by Greg
Two young urban pioneers and an old retired guy yanked this mid-century behemoth out of the floor today.
Thank goodness for Medicare … and Advil. |
