After the quote from Cordell Mechanical that I outlined in a previous post I decided to do some research and get some other estimates. A gentlemen named Dan was nice enough to submit a comment with the name of someone he recommended and I received another referral from my sister.

Wow…lots of varying information about […]

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After Aaron (the plumber) and Spencer worked hard last night getting more heat on the pipes we had a nice surprise at 6:20 this morning when hot water started flowing out of the kitchen sink. It was a VERY nice way to wake up!

We still don’t have hot water to the bathroom vanity or […]

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We woke up this morning to discover that we had no running water in our kitchen sink or bathtub and only the cold water was running out of the bathroom sink faucet. It’s unbelievably cold outside and with no heat flowing through the main floor or basement, the pipes behind the bathtub froze.

We called Spencer […]

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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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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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