I've got photos for a good, long blog post all about
our cozy bungalow basement, but I can't seem to
get to that the last couple of weeks.
We've been BUSY with all the ticky, ticky finish work
details on the main level.
It is SO time consuming.
Throw in preparing my Relief Society lesson
(or rather, stressing because I hadn't prepared as thoroughly as I usually do)
and every other thing we have going on from day to day,
so when Sunday afternoon rolled around
I pretty much went into shutdown mode.
Can't blog or do much else in shutdown mode.
Right now I should be slappin' another coat of Dragon Skin
on the master shower and masking windows so we can
get the paint sprayed on the window trim upstairs,
BUT...
I wanted to share a little something with you real quick-like.
It's VERY awesome.
Do you recall how we removed part of the original
basement slab to replace the 60 year old rough plumbing?
Before we re poured those sections of basement floor,
we installed radiant floor heat.
Those sections of heated slab ended up being the floors in
the south-west bedroom and the bathroom.
The "great room" in the basement is heated with an awesome
Napoleon gas fireplace we had installed.
Code does not require the utility room/basement laundry/storage room
to have any type of heating.
The north-east bedroom, however, took some creativity
to figure our how we were going to heat it.
Remember that we don't have a traditional furnace with ducting.
We'd considered ducting heat through a common wall into that bedroom
from the gas fireplace, but couldn't quite make it work.
There were a couple of other options we discussed, but
I came up with an idea and presented it to Dean,
who thought it was pretty great.
Here it is...
Acquire an antique radiator and hook it up to our boiler system.
So, we did just that.
Well, it hasn't been hooked up to the boiler system yet;
that's gonna take some engineering by Mr, himself when
he has a chance to get to it.
Anyway,
I just picked this beauty up at the shop where they
sand blasted and powder coated her and may I just say that
she looks radiant!
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We got her from a pre-statehood building
(Utah became a state in 1896)
on 5th East and 24th Street in Ogden
that has been undergoing some renovations for a veterans housing project.
She came with, oh, maybe a dozen coats of various paints that
had been applied over many decades.
But, my goodness, she's GORGEOUS now.
Gotta git ta work now on that second coat of Dragon Skin
and masking those windows.
Hopefully we'll see you back here again Sunday afternoon.
Thanks for stoppin' by.
Dean had a photo of the building we got the radiator from.
He emailed it earlier and I just found it.
