It’s in! So sorry for the delay in posting this week. It’s been a busy week on the home front. The reason is after much research, conversations, quotes and proposals, we now have our tank-less hot water heater and boiler installed in the cellar. This is HUGE. A main artery of the central nervous system to the house is officially up and running. A few weeks ago the company we are using came out and did a pressure test to…
Another project Paul has been working on the last few weeks is a much more formal clean out of the cellar. The cellar originally had old rusty shelves in it, long since deteriorated items stored on those shelves, broken glass, hoses, etc… As we approach the winter season we are now in the process of working with a heating company to purchase and install a new boiler and hot water heater, as well as testing the radiators (we have 22!)….
A few pics from a recent drive we took to enjoy the fall foliage…for my friends across the country. Thank you West Virginia!
Hi again! It’s been a couple of weeks since our last post and again, we had quite a lot of things going on which were larger projects nearing completion, thus it made since to wait. Plus 2 weeks seems to give us some good “meat” to talk about. One of the significant accomplishments this week was finishing our “test wall.” I know this doesn’t sound like much but this was the wall that we began scraping the very week we…
After we saw how beautiful the glass was in the old door, I began to look more closely at these doors. As you know, the house is a blend of Neo-classical and Victorian architectural elements. The Victorian side of things has details upon details. So upon further inspection of the door, we noticed even the INSIDE of the hinges (what a guest would see when the door is swung open) has a pattern on it. Seriously. See below… Once the…
A delightful discovery we came across this week was our front door glass! Although we’d walked past the door 100 times, we never saw it from outside in the evening with the inside lights shining through it. One evening as we walked in the yard, the light caught our eye. We noticed even through the old metal storm doors we still need to remove that the light was being refracted. Not only is the glass etched but it appears to…
Another one of our big projects which was just completed (sort of, I’ll explain in a moment); the completion of the front portion of the bay windows. With that, it was time to tear down the scaffolding. As you know Paul has been working on the scaffolding rebuilding the bay windows from top to bottom. He started by removing the old deteriorated rusted roof, applying a new one, then removing all paint on the front sections (each crevice, piece of…
Hi everyone. We never ended up making a post last week because we were very close to finishing a couple of big projects, so we held out wanting to instead, show you the finished result. We are there now! Our first relatively big projects, were the cellar doors and entrance. A big kudos to Paul on this! We knew this was something we needed to do but the true significance of this is that the boiler and hot water heaters,…
Here are a few other of the photos I found while going through one of the bins. Again, please know this is with utmost respect for the people in these photos and I am intentionally not posting any relatively recent family gatherings, out of respect for their privacy. The photos below are from a time long ago and a country away. As I sorted through the dusty old albums I found an old map of the Panama Canal and I…
This week, during the rains I finally decided to start sorting through some of the old bins I found upstairs in one of the bedrooms. The bins were left behind from a previous owner and appeared to have numerous old photos and other memorabilia in it. I had always planned to stop and sort through it with care and respect but hadn’t found the time to do so yet. As I slowly went through the 1st bin, what I found…