Happy New Year! - Almost

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thought I would would quickly post before the end of the year. So we are wrapping up 2007. Amazing. So I went back to see when we started this whole process. Feb 2006 was when we had our first meeting with Craig Bosworth - our architect. So nearly two years ago!

Anyway - we were hoping to have everything ready for the plumber at the end of last week but that just did not happen. We ran into some issues with the outflow for the toilet in the master bathroom. To allow us to have the toilet where we want it (not directly in front of you when you walk-in) we had to basically remove the existing floor joist that span both bathrooms and re-direct the joices. Here is a good photo - this is taken from the second floor and you can see the new bedroom on the second floor and the mud room on the first floor. The old joices ran length wise in the photo but the new ones will run left to right.

The other major thing this week is that they have taken down the chimney in the front of the house. This is a HUGE benefit. The chimney had no working fireplace and currently only was used to vent the hot water tank (it was originally used as a flew for a pot-bellied stove). We are switching to a tankless water heater and will not neet to vent out a chimney so we are able to remove it. The chimney really divided both the living room on the first floor and our bedroom on the second floor. Here is a before and after of the chimney removal.