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Entries from February 2008

Pictures of our new space today

February 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Here are a few pictures of where we’re at. Capital Floors came in and layed new oak hardwood over top of the old patchy hardwood (some areas ie. the kitchen had old linoleum). Our walls are also primed and ready to paint. We finally are starting to get a real sense of what the end […]

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Tags: Plumbing · Hardwood Floors · The new house

Replacing the Boiler and the Hot Water Tanks

February 5th, 2008 · 25 Comments

Unexpected surprises are part of any renovation - but it doesn’t mean that you get used to dealing with them. A little while ago our plumber told us that our venting for the boilers and the hot water tanks might not be to code. This week he came back with the news that […]

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Tags: Heating · Plumbing

Results from our ecoENERGY Evaluation Report

February 5th, 2008 · 8 Comments

A little while ago we mentioned that we were having an energy assessment done on our house to see what type of grants we could receive from the government for making our house more energy efficient. We received the results and here they are:

First of all on a score of 1 to 100 (100 […]

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Tags: Heating · ecoENERGY Retrofit grant