After a brief hiatus from work on the house last weekend, we have resumed home improvement efforts! Today we had two separate heating/cooling guys come out today to give us estimates for putting in a Unico or Spacepak high velocity air system (since we have no vents to use in putting air conditioning into the house). On Monday, someone is coming to give us a third quote.

Back to the basement...when we bought the house, we wrote into our contract that the sellers would need to remove the abundance of asbestos insulation surrounding our steam pipes. That has happened, but replacing the insulation is up to us. Loren made a trip out to Grainger to pick up our 180 feet of fiberglass insulation and spent several hours putting it up while I continued efforts on trim work upstairs.

Another big step forward is that we confirmed today with the painter who'll be doing our outside paint work, and Loren and I spent time at Sherwin Williams, working toward making the big decision of external colors. These Notre Dame and Michigan grads are leaning toward a couple very nice shades of blue...

Our (highly recommended) radiator expert forgot his appointment this afternoon to come clean our boilers--we have one for each the first and second floor from days as a duplex. It's a good thing we don't plan on relying on our boilers for awhile!