It began as an idea.
How could we affordably manage to upgrade our HVAC system and deal with the resulting alterations to our dining room, living room, master bedroom and daughter's bedroom? The answer turned out to be relatively easy to design, but difficult to execute.
Our heating and air conditioning layout, for the most part, was as old as the 1940 house. Like most systems installed during that era, the returns were not designed to adequately handle the supply airflow, resulting in a poorly balanced system that barely heated and cooled the first floor. Forget the second floor.
Our HVAC savior proposed installing a new mega-return from the basement through the dining room, and on up to the blog daughter's bedroom. Great, we thought. Now how do we deal with this ugly metal box in the corner of these rooms?
This was just the excuse we needed to integrate the new chase with a built-in bookcase. Yes, friends, the bookcase dreams could potentially become a reality. Although the end result is not what we initially intended to build, it turned out to be exactly the right solution for our space, and we couldn't be happier.
The story started nearly a year ago. The first weekend of October 2010 in suburban Washington, DC was especially mild and lovely. We should have been outdoors enjoying ourselves. Yet what were we doing? Demo, baby! It was a down and dirty, noisy, painful dust-up. And at the end of the weekend, we succeeded in prepping the spaces for the contractor to come in and begin installation of the new system.
Cutting up the floor and gouging out holes in the wall is really quite scary. But we forged ahead and finished the demo on time.
Fast forward to November. The new ducting and equipment were installed. Now we had to start the hard part: putting it all back together.
Next time: Time to Rebuild
How could we affordably manage to upgrade our HVAC system and deal with the resulting alterations to our dining room, living room, master bedroom and daughter's bedroom? The answer turned out to be relatively easy to design, but difficult to execute.
Our heating and air conditioning layout, for the most part, was as old as the 1940 house. Like most systems installed during that era, the returns were not designed to adequately handle the supply airflow, resulting in a poorly balanced system that barely heated and cooled the first floor. Forget the second floor.
Our HVAC savior proposed installing a new mega-return from the basement through the dining room, and on up to the blog daughter's bedroom. Great, we thought. Now how do we deal with this ugly metal box in the corner of these rooms?
This was just the excuse we needed to integrate the new chase with a built-in bookcase. Yes, friends, the bookcase dreams could potentially become a reality. Although the end result is not what we initially intended to build, it turned out to be exactly the right solution for our space, and we couldn't be happier.
The story started nearly a year ago. The first weekend of October 2010 in suburban Washington, DC was especially mild and lovely. We should have been outdoors enjoying ourselves. Yet what were we doing? Demo, baby! It was a down and dirty, noisy, painful dust-up. And at the end of the weekend, we succeeded in prepping the spaces for the contractor to come in and begin installation of the new system.
Cutting up the floor and gouging out holes in the wall is really quite scary. But we forged ahead and finished the demo on time.
Fast forward to November. The new ducting and equipment were installed. Now we had to start the hard part: putting it all back together.
Next time: Time to Rebuild
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