My partner and I were excited to buy and transfer into a historical home.
We just enjoyed all the original features such as hardwood floors, ornate banisters on the stairway and solid wood doors.
The lake house includes large windows, ten-foot ceilings and tiffany light fixtures. There is an enormous wrap-around porch across the front of the porch and a balcony that’s accessible through French doors in the master home office. The largest downside was the lack of a central heating and cooling system. When we first purchased the home, we got by with electric baseboard gas furnaces and window cooling units. We discovered that handling the extreme weather in our area is impossible with portable units. The heating and cooling component detracted from the decor and cost us quite a bit to operate. It wasn’t long before we were aggravated with chilly in the Wintertide and covered in sweat while I was in the Summer months, but my partner and I were expecting a huge remodeling project in order to install conventional HVAC duct. We figured the plaster walls and ceilings would need to come down, creating a gigantic mess, huge expense and a particularly time-consuming process. However, the Heating and Air Conditioning business told us about high velocity heating and cooling that is designed particularally to retrofit into older homes, but very narrow diameter, adjustable ducts are able to be snaked into the walls and worked around pipes, studs and electrical wires without causing destruction. Vents that are only six-inches in diameter can be installed just about anywhere and come in a variety of styles and colors. The actual heating/cooling component is located in the attic