Downtown Kay Town : Week 9 and 10

Week 9 was the second week of July. We started removing flooring this week. We pulled up the teal carpet from the breakfast room and under that the linoleum. We scraped it all up and also removed all of the staples. We also started removing the wood flooring from the kitchen, southwest bedroom, the phone room and tile from the inglenook.

This week we also met with the HVAC guys from Freemont HVAC to plan for how we are going to heat and cool the house. I've been somewhat torn because I would love to reuse the old radiators, but I don't think that is going to work for us. Especially because the back section of the house has no radiators in it. A few years back, the owners put a furnace in the attic, a monstrous beast that is covered in box elder bugs. We have talked about reusing it, but we would like to relocate it from being dead center in the middle of the attic. We have talked about using the attic space as a bonus room, and would like to get the old furnace out of the way. After talking to the HVAC installer, we decided we would replace the old furnace with a new, high efficiency one and move it to the east side of the attic. We need to place some return air vents in different locations around the house so we discussed this as well. A few of them will be located in closets, and a few others will be placed in the columns entering the family room.

Week 10 was a continuation of removing the flooring. We tried very hard to pull out all the nails and not break the tongue or groove of the planks. This was a tricky task considering the wood is 94 years old. The kids were great help removing the nails that we didn't get. All of the flooring from the center of the house and the back area got removed and stacked out in the garage.

We spent time cleaning up the yard again this weekend. It's amazing how fast everything grows. We raked, trimmed edged and mowed the lawn. We were also able to sell the range this week which is awesome. Love getting appliances off the driveway.