Month: March 2018

Today brought us our first mishap.

We were all outside in the garage checking out the sweet piano Derek got me. I will get to renovate it as soon as we finish the house. Meanwhile, Granger was inside cutting out an unnecessary board when we heard a crash and he yelled like something was really wrong. We thought he was severely injured. Nope. The vent pipe that was used in the original master bath became dislodged from the roof and fell through both floors through to the basement. That wasn’t too terrible, but it was definitely a Funny Farm kinda moment. Now we have a skylight. We are covering those floor boards with underlayment anyway, so it’s not like it was an added expense.

It’s been a long time since we had an update for you all on our renovation of turning this convent into our family home. We FINALLY found an engineer that was willing to work with us. Not just willing, but also very excited about our project. He was very happy to see how sound the building is despite it’s run down looks.

We also have a great plan for hvac. We are going to have Bob Rojas install a roof mounted 5 ton dual pack unit that will handle our cooling needs and will also add a boost to the heating if we should need it. We will also have staple up radiant floor heat throughout the house that will do the bulk of the heating. We are going to be able to afford the solar unit for our radiant heat. We will have a wood stove on each floor as well. We are accustomed to that wonderful blast of warm you get from a wood stove. As you can tell by this overkill I HATE being cold!

We have now begun reframing and the demolition of the walls we do not want. During this process we have found a few solutions to our previous problems and have also made a few changes in what will go where. I think I’m most excited about the great room. Now that the dividing stud walls are down you can really feel how grand it will be.

Here are the update videos for each floor:

first floor

second floor.