And we have heat

After having our furnace replaced a few months ago, we now finally have heat! We technically could have turned it on long ago, but there were a couple projects we wanted to finish first and it hadn't really been cold so there was no need. The basement crawlspace door (leading under our front porch) needed to have a new door built around it and insulated... no point in turning our heat on if it would all just flow right outside through that).

We also had to have the final duct work finished (which wasn't done before since we had to rebuild the stairs first, as that ductwork comes upstairs from up under the staircase). The stairs were finished about a month ago, and so we scheduled the guy that did our furnace and duct work originally and he came in this week and it all got done!  P.S. we used James Heating & More (he is a local guy in West Seattle) and he was great... very nice and easy to work with, and we felt very fairly priced.

The last week it turned a bit chilly, nothing we couldn't handle... but it is so nice to have heat again and know we will be warm and cozy (and energy efficient) this winter!



Matt after a long day working on the basement

New crawlspace door and insulation

It even has a lock... nothing is getting in here. =)

Here is the new railing/half wall around the staircase upstairs, with final duct work put in. Our house/furnace will now circulate air throughout the upstairs & downstairs (before there was only an air in-take vent in our basement, so the furnace was just pulling air in from there and then circulating that throughout the house), which will keep it even warmer & more efficient