This house outside Polonia, well-built in the late 19th century, had a kitchen addition of poor quality added in the 1930s. Our project involved removing the old kitchen addition, rebuilding a larger kitchen, remodeling a bathroom, creating a master bedroom/bathroom suite from two existing first floor bedrooms, straightening a sagging living room ceiling, installing vapor barrier, insulating to R-32 walls and R-60 ceiling, and installing a masonry heater.
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Before.....
and after.
Not much snow stays on the old, un-insulated roof of the house!
Exposed aggregate sidewalk as well as other concrete in this project done by Alchemy Concrete from Nelsonville.
The masonry heater bakeoven door is on the kitchen side. The heated bench can be sat on from both the kitchen and living room. Split stone masonry veneer done by Check Brothers Masonry.
The masonry heater serves as a beautiful and functional room divider between kitchen and living room, radiating on all four sides. It also has a hydronic component that heats water used for the hydronic radiant in-floor and baseboard heating system. Plumbing and heating work done by Bob’s Plumbing of Amherst.