Thursday, December 10, 2009 - How It All Ties Together

Quite a whirlwind of a day. The best news of all is that the new roof line now connects to the old roof line. It is officially tied together at the top and the bottom. The worst news of the day came in the form of a couple of additional, unplanned, and unbudgeted expenses. Due to the plan redesign due to the issue with the steps, a lot of the ductwork and intake for the new HVAC unit will have to be extended and redirected. The original plans called for the staircase to simply be framed in with wood, and the ductwork could have simply been directed through any of the large gaps. Once it was redesigned and the base of the staircase became solid concrete, well, it was time to find another way around...and that comes at a price. Maybe worse than that, now that the old and new are connected as one, it is time to pop out the windows on the former back of the house. First the brick, now the windows. Well, only one window was removed and plywood put in its place on what will be a 14-degree evening. But no windows have been installed yet on the addition, so it might as well be open to the whole world...and Mother Nature. Forgot to add "heater running all the time" to the remodeling budget.