It is official- we have heat!!! Rick the Plumber came and hooked up the 4 loops of pex tubing to our existing furnace and laid the tubing between the sleepers. He and Erik only got 1/2 way across the room, but the thermostat is slowly going up. I hope he can get back in to finish it, before the flooring is delivered.
This weekend, we also went down to Ma. and helped Stella & Karl pack up their condo in Haverhill for their downsizing to the Franconia Cottage. Good luck on the move! By the look of that U-haul truck they are definitely going to need an addition to fit all their stuff.
So, as some of you know we haven't been up skiing that much. Mostly, because we have so much happening so quickly, that we need to get some momentum. We need to get flooring in the room, we have appliances & cabinets ordered. In order to get flooring in- we need heat. In order to get heat, we need to lay the sleepers to run the radiant under. So instead of getting on planks to ski, Erik laid some planks over the sub-floor. Of course this sounds like it might take a few hours, but 1/3 of the room has a concrete pad. Erik put down a reflective bubble wrap over the entire room, this is to reflect the heat from the radiant tubing up instead of heating the slab and the crawl space below. The concrete slab was also about an inch above the subfloor, so Erik had to slice the 2 x 4-s so that they were level with the 2x on the subfloor.
Above is Erik starting to lay the 2x over the subfloor section. Those nailed right in. Over the concrete was a different story. I had to run out and buy a hammer drill- for him to screw in to the pad. He had to spray water as he was drilling so that the bit didn't get too hot. It took about 2 days to get that section done. I also had to borrow an electric hand planer from Mike, since the concrete pad was not level, he was planing each 2x with an antique at one point. The electric hand planer saved him about a week of work. 
This is the finished result. Sleepers across the entire room- now we just need to get the radiant in. While Erik was working, the dogs and I explored the woods behind our house. We made some snowshoe trails and enjoyed all the snow, we've had.
Nate and Erik closed out the duck season with two Christmas ducks. Fisher the dog was a big help retrieving them from the marsh. Good Boy!
