Adventures at The Bunny Manse

We still have an Iron Fireman in the basement. This was a top of the line coal fired boiler system for a house during the depression. The coal fire heated the steam which then pushed hot moist air through the pipes and radiators all over the house. The radiators are long gone, replaced seemingly with the Warm Morning heaters that got us through the winter. The basement however still has some of the steam piping coming off of the furnace and running around the perimeter of the basement and crawlspace. And this is what is covered in Asbestos to insulate againsts heat loss. We got a quote from AB control to abate the asbestos and it was pretty high (~$4,800) so Harris found someone in Greensboro to give us a quote, EME industrial that came in ~$3,300 for the same scope of work. They are currently at the house cleaning out the asbestos while Ed & Brad plaster and Harris studies for class. It's a busy day!

We can has asbestos? YA! YOU CAN HAS ASBESTOS! :not happy: We're getting an estimate for remediation now. We were going to focus on getting the HVAC installed then said, hrm- that old plumber who was out said every one of these old houses has asbestos, because he used to work on the boilers - let's make sure we don't have asbestos before we start heating and piping air through the house. Oh guess what! We do!  It's in several places around the crawl space, basically following the path of the old steam radiator pipes. They are going to have to cut the metal out of the crawl space, dig out the dirt in places where it's already fallen from the pipe and then do some negative pressure thing with the air. So. Yeah. Also, we found some weird wires that we're going to have looked at next week. We're getting our tax credits back over the next 4-6 weeks so were planning how we would spend the money. Looks like...more non-sexy things that are most defi...