Mr. Heatmiser

 

See our Ducts?!

We have heat!!!!

Our furnace is named – of course – Mr. Heatmiser.
For anyone who might not get the reference, here you go!
This is one of my all time favorite claymation Christmas specials. 

Pretty soon we’ll have a Mr. Coldmiser, and actually we do, but he’s not feeling so well. Thomas fixed some things on it, and then the condenser died – I missed it, but apparently it was rather spectacular.

We had our gas turned on last week, after we’d finished installing the furnace and all the ductwork.
Yep, we.
I really didn’t have much to do with the furnace itself, but I did help with all the ductwork.

It’s been pretty cool, learning about boots, registers, saddle collars, venting a furnace (very important!) and flexi pipe (very cool – they pack 25 feet into a 3 foot-ish bag. Open the bag and watch it grow! Sort of like the pill sponge animals from when we were kids).
Oh, and that wacky red tool I had pictures of a few posts back? Those are crimpers; you use them if your extending some of the rigid piping – we did.
Now we need to finish building the soffit that will go around the main trunk that runs along the living room ceiling. The flexi pipes fit nicely in the floor joists, so will be hidden by the sheet rock, once we finish installing that.

See our Ducts?!

Cutting Holes for the Registers in the Ceiling

More Register Cutting

Venting our Furnace

One thing I don’t have pictures of is our newly insulated and decked attic!
Yay Thomas!!!!!
I really didn’t do anything on this, aside from bring home many rolls of insulation and help get them into the attic. Then come back the next day and gush over the great job Thomas did. And I’m not being sarcastic; it looks great.
He had me save a bunch of panelling that we pulled out of the downstairs, and he used that for decking. We really have been reusing the heck out of our old stuff. The rest of the decking will be the big sheets of plywood over the windows (yes, we still have some boarded up windows – we’re waiting until we’re done working for most of them. Then we’ll replace any broken panes.
We also used a bunch of the 2×4s that were across the plywood for shims and, well, anything Thomas needed.

A picture, A thousand words

 

 

A View of Mr. Heatmiser

 

I’ve gotten so far behind that I feel the best way to catch up is to put up my latest pictures.
Sorry for no story – our furnace story looks to be turning into a choose your own adventure, so I’m trying to give it a little time.
Hopefully you’ll enjoy some shots of tools and such in the meantime!

A View of Mr. Heatmiser

You’ve seen this before – old ductwork

Dan, our furnace man!

Our Condenser Unit – Thank you Dave (and Dave’s Sister!)

The “door” to our attic

Our Breaker Box

I have no idea what these are for – but aren’t they awesome?!

I told you they were awesome!

Part of our Ductwork

Thomas Cutting Out Stuff

The Floor in our Living Room (for now)

Part of Dan’s Hydrogen Thing for His Truck