July 1, 2005
gentle cooling breezes
We have central air now.
The walkway that had to be cleared.
I had to take part of the brick walkway up to make a level space for the new AC units. It was easy work, but not so great on my back. We’ve saved the bricks and have plans for them for the back yard.
While I was stacking the bricks I was thinking about the beauty of how this walk was put together: in small, re-usable pieces. Contrast this to vinyl siding or poured concrete…
Bricks.
The James River van.
Two guys from James River were here all day yesterday and most of today. They installed 2 outside untis and ran the lines to the furnaces inside. We have 2 units because there were 2 furnaces installed when the house was cut into a duplex; it is nice now, with the downstairs being a construction site, to be able to have that one turned off.
Our new AC units.
Cool!
It’s like the dual climate control in our car - his and her temperature controls! I think you’re ahead of your time.
have you had your house conveted back to “single family residence” status? if so, how’d you do that? The people here [the city] say we have to have our water/gas/electricity all switched to one incoming source by “licensed” professionals before we can get back to 1 address again. I will be so happy when I don’ have 2 house numbers on my home! :)
jenne - We were never legally a duplex. Interior walls were added to make the space, but with any permitting. Thankfully they didn’t split the water, gas, or electric.
If you don’t mind sharing, how much did it cost you to put in central A/C? Did they have to run ductwork? We are looking at putting dual zone A/C in the house we bought in January and the quotes have been incredibly high. But with temperature in the triple digits, they kind of have us over a barrel.
Daniel — The cost could be accurately described as high :)
We had to replace 1 of the 2 furnaces, get the cooling bits for both and the 2 outside units, and re-run the ductwork downstairs. The ductwork had been run under the house before, but had fallen into disrepair (or had been shabby since day 1…). It turned out that we didn’t really have the clearance in the crawlspace to run the ductwork to code, and to make everything ok would’ve been tremendously annoying and expensive; we ran new ductwork inside.