Thanks Scott. I was happy where I was at - we had taken one of the lesser homes in the neighborhood and remodeled it 100% and added an office etc, but I made the mistake of telling my wife there weren’t any projects left.
And she really wanted to wanted move... I said I’d move if we could find something interesting/something different. So we got it and then some, but once again it’s the house in the neighborhood that “needs” everything. We knew it needed a new roof and that HVAC stuff was old, but I didn’t expect it to be “built” wrong. I also think it scared normal (non contractor or non motivated) buyers off - one of the first things I and some of my guys did did here was remove about 30 tons of debris leftover from the prior owner’s pool business! It wasn’t pretty.
And right away I began to think the HVAC looks way undersized, and that it also couldn’t breathe. We were still running the A/C then and the big unit kept freezing up. What we found is that someone had placed plywood shear-panel over one of the return pathways between the floors. And I could see how someone had hacked about a 4” X 4” hole in it to try and fix it. That particular return is about 14” in diameter at the air handler....
Anyways, I’m very happy here, but _everythjng_ needs attention.
There are some cool parts to it though. Like how careful they were to copy the 1910 house. I’d like to know how they managed to taper all the walls for example.