What do you do to modernize a furnace for an old, 80-year old apartment building with radiator heat? Well, this was my view...
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| Here's the building in question - a 1927, 16-unit apartment house across the street from me. |
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| The chimney before restoration. |
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| The first step was to lop off a few rows of bricks from the chimney. |
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| The second step was to reline the flue with a flexible duct. |
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| Make that two flexible ducts. |
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| Toiling whilst people are enjoying good bar-b-q... |
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| Well, shoot, it's too long. |
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| The good news is that this was all occurring during a warm weekend when none of the tenants needed heat. |
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| The final step is to install a new chimney cap. |
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| Note the two caps for the two separate ducts. Also note that the satellite dish was unscathed in this process. |
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| Here is the building when it was first built (top left). This is from the March 6, 1927, edition of the Commercial Appeal. |
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| This old Sanborn Insurance map shows that our building once had a parking garage in its small rear yard. |
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