There’s something about the city — I don’t think either of us can tell you what that is, any more than we can tell you when you meet your spouse and fall in love and for some reason you just know that’s the one. That was Detroit for us. — Amy Haimerl

Air Conditioning Equipment Arrives!

Our air handler and all of its components have finally arrived to the house! Holy cow, it’s a lot of equipment too! The boxes have essentially filled our master bedroom and 1/2 the attic.

1/2 of the boxes that arrived for our AC

Due to our home being made of plaster walls, we have decided to leave our current steam boiler system for heating and install a fancy new High Velocity Forced-Air Mini-Duct system by Unico… This newer style of system allows us to avoid needing to install full duct work and tear apart plaster (which in this home likely contains asbestos) and instead, run tubing around the home typically through the corners of our closets and to the proper rooms of the home where we need cooling. Each tube then has a crazy muffler system on the end of it to reduce the noise of moving air from it and places small round vents that will be in the ceiling.

These systems are designed for exactly the situation we are in with our home, which has never had air conditioning before. We will then be able to control both our heat and our cooling through the same thermostat. We were planning on using a Nest thermostat, but have decided to try something new so we’ve purchased the newest ecobee3 thermostat which gives us a second temperature sensor we can install anywhere in the home we’d like and use both to control heating and cooling.

Finishing the Barrel Ceiling

Christian worked hard on recreating the barrel ceiling this week. By determining the radius of the circle needed to recreate our arch, he made an arc template that he then was able to use to cut out over 18 arches for the ribs down the length of the nook space. Spacers are used like a spine in between to ensure that spacing and twist are controlled for across the room for when we need to attach curved drywall to them down the road.

Made with Logi Circle Day Brief feature

This room formerly wasn’t arced its entire length, with the room bisected originally to form a hallway from the kitchen to the dining room in front of the nook. Now with our new layout, we are making it feel more open and completely visible when you enter the home, where before it was hidden behind a wall.