Prior to all this hullabaloo, Scott had been working diligently on the ceiling for the bakery.
John, of Herrl Woodcraft, finished the essential part of primary kitchen’s installation and needed other parts completed before he completed those final touches. In the meantime he has been constructing our bakery cabinets. At this point, John is almost ready to install those cabinets.
But, poor Scott, is playing catch-up… Though the bakery is a square room, it requires a dropped ceiling to hide the plumbing coming from the second floor. Well, when we learned all the tubing needed to be pulled down, that meant the bakery ceiling needed to come down too. Fortunately, Scott only had a few tin panels installed, but still pulling down what had been completed was a major setback. All the insulation, the reflective bubble wrap, and reflector plates needed to be torn down. So Christmas Day… with his horrible cold… Scott was down in the cold tearing down the bakery ceiling he had just installed. All the reflector plates… all the reflective bubble wrap, all the insulation, and the few tin panels carefully removed…
Because of our heating coil issues, I am sure some of you might be wondering about our beautiful primary kitchen copper ceiling. The primary kitchen is an area that had been added to this home in 1949. Its ceiling is not connected to the other ceilings in the cottage. The only radiant heating tubing in that room is the tubing in the floor which comes from the basement. Granted it is in one of the more challenging areas of the basement because it’s a crawlspace… no one’s favorite area to go into. So other than needing heat, plumbing and gas for my cooktop, that room is safe from further destruction.
The day after Christmas? Bert and his sons came over. They pulled out the old coils and rusting connectors and installed the correct tubing and brass connectors for the bakery and dining room on the first floor. Now the process of installing the bakery ceiling needed to begin again.
New tubing with brass connectors? Installed… new reflector plates? Secured… reflective bubble wrap? Stapled in place… And, Roxul insulation? Secured between rafters. Scott returned to measuring, estimating, re-measuring, and placing all the firring strips needed for ceiling light fixtures and the tin panels. A cold job… a very cold job… because though the tubing is in place for the bakery ceiling, that tubing will warm the second floor laundry room, not the bakery.
To warm the bakery and primary kitchen, we still need to replace all the tubing in the basement and follow-up with reflector plates, reflective bubble wrap, and insulation. Right now Bert and his sons and Glenn are out helping people who have no heat because of our extreme cold snap… so in the meantime, Scott runs down to work and runs up to thaw…
