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 OK we're finally ready for flooring. (bedroom flooring, white oak)
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So lets put the floor in. (kitchen flooring, hickory) |
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All the beams, frames, doors, window trim, and posts are conditioned with poly. So, might as well add some to the floor too.
And here is the kitchen floor, installed, sanded and finished hickory 4" planks that are stained a little. The stain really brings out the grain in the white pieces. |
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Here is the big house flooring, also white oak. We'll sand and put on 2 coats then after the electrical, and plumbng are done, sand again and put on the last coat.
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And here is the bighouse floor with 2 coats of poly. The flooring for the big house is white oak, 3" and 4" planks mixed in no particular way. |
The Wood-Fired Oven:
The wood stoves were vented a few months ago, the Kitchen can't be delivered
because of the snow, so maybe we could vent the kitchen oven now?
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Well the oven venting included some very specialized, grease duct piping. It arrived during a snow storm, OK what's new about that? We've had one storm after another all winter. Well they truck that pipe from West Virginia and stuffed it on an 18-wheeler. Great but an 18 wheeler can't come down my road, so I had to meet this guy out by the County Road. So the drive through the snow isn't much of a problem, I have a 4-wheel drive truck, but the large piping is banded on a pallet and smaller pieces came in about 20 loose boxes. Wedging them all in and around the truck and driving them through snow drifts was a problem. But after much deliberation I arrived back at the casa with the piping.
The installation of this piping is rather specialized, so it was 6 weeks later before my contrators were able to dodge the snow and begin the install. |
Well we had a gap in the snow storms and managed to start the oven venting project. Of course it snowed a few inches today and it will snow everyday next week, so I'm not sure when we'll pick up on this again. Since we're ready for the roof penetration and the installers suspect a foot of snow on the roof may be a tad slippery, they want to wait for dryer weather. Hmmm! In Ohio, dryer weather occurs every few years! So I don't figure on firing up this oven anytime soon.
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The drease ducts are industrial strength, very robust for this type of installation. The plumbing looks like it belongs on a cargo ship. Everything is double-walled, triple-walled in places, insulated, caulked, and then painted glossy "stealth" black.
The oven is installed, just got to peel off the protective plastic wrap, break it in, and cook something.
This is the business end of the oven. You cook and heat in the same dome-shaped chamber, just the way my ancestors did a thousand years ago. Hopefully I'll hear some helpful voices when I crank this thing up! |
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