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Adapting New Technology to Historic Properties
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" I'd say there's a little bit of decay evident in your basement -- well well -- the it's. With the building vacant for fifty years of the century. There was four feet of snow in the basement. The first winter that we came it was blowing in and like snow fences all these interior walls so that explains the heaving of the slabs down here. How big is -- it's about 34000 square feet. -- again wow 34000. Square feet one of the most interesting features of the basement is that there's a walkway underneath the front porch when we came in. And of course historically there was a butcher's shop and a Baker's shop and a laundry room and them. I -- two bakers. Drying racks it was it was like a little city's hotel I mean this was a private house but how many rooms in the house correct there's a 106 rooms in the house. And a staff of probably twenty -- thirty wasn't a total staff -- 128 remove probable property and think about twenty or thirty in the house well. And then. This is kind of have contrast because everything overhead lucrative brand new piping. Troughs like you see it and I mean. This is state of the art. -- why did you wire things miss it well it's an interesting. Some of the problems we had with the house went led to our ultimate advantage in that. -- none of the systems were usable except for the septic drains. We had great electricians Wilbur electric who. Installed these troughs which meant we weren't drilling holes and beings who were putting up conduit. If high voltage on the top low voltage here and you've got access to it in any point continuing activities go into and breaking into so it's new technology and coal technologies that have really old file and there it welcome to take some home are trying to get it out of the basement slowly. Historically. This was -- boiler looked like. Now. That's original right that's original boiler there were three. And they were. There were three this size. Three that size for the whole place. Ends. There were a few people who work continuously. Off seeding it with coal -- said imagine was not a very good job to have. Now when won't come open huh so there were stoker's this is just like the Titanic. If it -- electric I can -- now Oakland in the boiler room for a new boiler. -- toasty in here."
" Oh yeah I'm familiar where it is now are you saying that you've got three little boilers like this through the -- 106 Bruins -- The idea is that we have nine total boilers when the building is complete OK and the -- is really put. Normal house sized boilers in the house so people can work on them. And maintenance issues are easy that's interesting instead of a big industrial or commercial kind of installation you've got normal boilers. And if you got any kind of a breakdown anybody can come -- not a do some there repairs yourself we do and in. The other idea was to put each room on its own zones -- a lot of control in the house and I think that's really been. More infrastructure in the beginning -- has really been worthwhile in the long Bob what about fire safety a lot of these. Huge old palaces just kind of went up in flames in the last 2030 years it's great concern of ours we've. Completely. Made this room so it's airtight. In an addition we only take in a certain volume of air for each boiler. Through these machines trades here. Any sign of club fire. Excessive heat smoke the boilers shut down. Sprinklers come on in the room shuts down so there's no more air for combustion is no more air -- sounds like you've thought about all of it thanks buck."
