Basement Adjustments

Well, I had a complaint about cold feet in the basement (I'm not going to rat him out) so I decided to make an adjustment to hopefully take care of the issue.  I did take a temperature reading and the basement is running 1-2 degrees colder than the main floor of the house at floor level.  I'm not sure I will be able to completely correct the differential but I decided I would give it a try. 

I ended up running a new branch of duct for the heating and cooling system on one end of the basement and it went so well that I may run another on the opposite side of the basement tonight.  The unfinished side of the wall is ugly but the living side looks like the register has been there all the time.  Who really cares what the side looks like that no one really sees anyway?  The whole job took less than an hour and the one I'm going to run tonight will take even less time.  Here are a few pictures; most of you will be bored but if you are....don't look!

Helper Katie putting her two cents worth in.

Register boot on the unfinished side of the wall

Cut for the trunk line boot

Rather ugly duct tape job on the main truck boot but I couldn't find my Aluminum duct tape (only temporary)

Duct running and connected to the boots

All Finished!

Big Day for Katie

Our almost 4 year old going on 17 had a big day on Saturday.  She looked at Lisa and me and said "Let's go get my ears pierced".  Now those word also came out of her mouth a couple of weeks ago as well only to tell us "not today".  Since we were looking for something to do anyway, we headed out to the mall and no backing out this time.  Katelyn was so rock solid, no tears were shed (not even a sign of a watery eye).  Lisa, well that was another story.

Picture a crowd of about 12 or so gathering around to watch this tiny 3, almost 4, year old getting her ears pierced.  I'm sure it's some kind of sickness that all these people wanted to see a little girl cry her head off but nothing.  Then all of a sudden we hear someone in the crowd say she's not crying but look at her momma!  Yep, Lisa was wiping a tear away when I turned to look at her.

Waiting patiently

Marking her ears

The big moment

No tears!