Finally, after several weeks of waiting, our HVAC contractor has come on site. He is starting with the 2nd floor unit and will begin making his way down. The work starts with forming the ducts on site, insulating the ducts with R-8 insulation, and then hanging the ductwork in its final place. To date, the contractor has been on site for only a few days, so there’s been more work put into making the ducts than hanging them, but hopefully we’ll see much more progress above ceiling in the next few weeks to come!

In the mean time, over the last two weeks our mason has slowly built back the exterior front stairwell. We purchased new brick and tried to match it as close as possible to the old brick. The new brick was used on the exposed portion of the wall and the old salvaged brick was used to fill in the middle of the wall. Our contractor worked with old photos and pre-demo photos to build the stairway walls back to their original dimensions so that we can restore the old look of the house. It’ll still be several weeks before we pour the concrete and several more weeks before all the exterior work is complete, but its nice to finally see the house starting to take shape.