So this morning, I was wondering what was going on with getting the basement started, and Kyle and I had this conversation on pidgin:
(10:22:50 AM) Rebecca:OK so have you heard anything from Dave yet?
(10:23:03 AM) kyle: no
(10:23:27 AM) Rebecca:ok well can you try contacting him again?
(10:30:40 AM) Rebecca:ok never mind
(10:30:50 AM) kyle: what?
(10:30:54 AM) Rebecca:the guy is here to move the duct!!!!
Yup someone showed up this morning to move the duct that went straight down the middle of the ceiling in one of the bedrooms! Had I known that he was coming I would have known to go downstairs beforehand to get a “before” shot of where the duct was originally. Instead, he showed up this morning and went down to take the duct down. He made some measurements and then went home to build the pieces he would need to move it. While he was gone, I went down and got some “in the works” shots. 🙂
That open duct there is where it used to continue down the middle of the room. And these are the pieces of the duct that he took down so he could move them over:
He was actually home making the new pieces a lot longer than I had expected. I ended up having to call Kyle and ask him to come home right away, so that we could get the kids to the dentist and still have someone at the house when the guy came back to finish the duct. It was a good thing too, because shortly after Kyle left to take the kids to their appointment, the guy arrived to put the duct back together. We have been waiting so long for the basement to be done that I would have hated to not be there when he got there to finish. He worked on the vent for quite awhile. Kyle and the kids were back from the dentist before he was finished. But now he is done and the duct now runs along the wall of the bedroom:
I’m so excited! Work has finally begun! And the guy that moved the duct said that he would be back Thursday or Friday to run our gas lines. Basement construction has officially begun!