Dining Room and Kitchen Floor Installation

Parlor Floor Walls

Structured Wiring

With the opportunity of having  some of our walls and ceilings open, we decided to install a home cabling network system (also referred to as Structured Wiring). For those of you not familiar with the phrase structured wiring, here is a brief description... In one sentence Structured Wiring can be described as combining ALL of the communications wiring in your home and treating it as one wiring system. Cabling infrastructures usually are designed to support voice (telephone), data (Ethernet), video (cable/dish television), video conferencing and security applications.

We installed six data points throughout the house, one in each bedroom, one in the kitchen and one in the Dining Room area. Each Data point will have one Cat5e (telephone), two Cat6 (Data) and two RG6/U coaxial cables (Video) and all of the wires will come together in the cellar at the Central Wiring Panel.

For us data networking was one of the major reasons for taking on this project. With multiple computers in our home we would like all of them to be networked, allowing a number of things to happen:

- Internet Connection Sharing: Having multiple PC's sharing a single internet connection.

- File Sharing - The ability to share and access files located on any of our computers

- Resource Sharing - The ability to use devices such as scanners and printers from any of the PC's.

Video sharing is another main reason. With video wiring, the cable carries signals from Cable TV, DSS (Digital Satellite Services) and baseband video (such from a video camera). And with the high degree of configuration you can get with a structured wiring system you can easily accommodate all of the signals.

Installation of Front Cellar Door

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Cornice Restoration

We used JP Contracting to restore the cornice of our house. Jack was amazing and did a great job. We are really happy with the results!

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Slowly Moving Forward

Parlor Floor

Dining Room Wall

Future Bathroom

Cellar Window Restoration

Original Condition

Completed

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New Water Main

We decided to install a new water main to the house due to the fact that we are adding a new bathroom and dishwasher. Also the water main pipe is extremely old and contains lead.


DMC plumbing came in with their crew and started to excavate the street to gain access to the water main which is located on the opposite side of the street.  It was amazing the size of the cobble stones under the asphalt. Beautiful! It took them hours of digging mostly by hand to remove the old lead pipe and install a new 3/4" copper pipe. The old pipe was so corroded that the opening (which the water passed through) was the size of a straw. 

Construction Finally Starts...

After a very long wait, deciding on a contractor and having the permits approved, demolition finally started on Monday August 8^th. We hired Craft Workshop, Inc as our contractor and Andreas and his crew started demoing the three closets on the Parlor floor, the arch separating the living room and dining area, and the entire kitchen. Next will be the three closets separating the two second floor bedrooms where our future master bathroom will be located.

Restoration of Wrought Iron Fence

Sanding to remove the rust

Applying the First Coat of Paint

Finished!!!