One last project completed while I was on vacation was the final cleanup of the crawl space and plugging the many holes in the concrete pads from when we had the diesel furnaces removed in spring 2018. There were four HUGE holes in the floor of the closet in Agent Smith’s office for the supply and return vents for them, as the pad was actually poured around them when the house was built in the late 1960s.
While I was gone, Agent Smith and a couple of our side-work guys managed to fill these suckers in, making that closet usable. And what’s in it now? Our 3D printer setup!
Those weren’t the only holes that needed attention though–holes in the kitchen and guest bath that looked like this were also now gaping maws. But with a bit of cement and framing, they were soon filled in. Eventually we will cover these with tile, but that project is still pending, since there are also four holes in the slab of the sunken area of the great room. Currently I’m trying to have the tiles in that space matched or recreated, and it is proving a very lengthy process.
Eventually it’ll get done and I’ll write about it, but for now the advantage of having all these gaping holes plugged up is that critters–rodents specifically–have a harder time running about through the house. But more on that in the next post.