MA Remodel - Cold Climate Strategy

hey everybody we're live in andover mass on the build show i'm matt risinger and i'm here to give you well scratch that no i got matt in andover he's here we look like twins though though it's really hard to tell steve barton he's a foot taller than me but we look like twins and maybe 10 pounds heavier five pounds we are visiting boston my buddy steve basic steve if you haven't seen him before super super smart architect we've made some really fun videos before but today's video we're going to focus on this ranch remodel now steve you've been you've made a bunch of videos he made at least a half dozen on build show network if you're not following steve every friday he's got a new video but today we're going to take a tour we're going to show you some beautiful stuff and some really high efficiency i think people watching this that have a 50s 60s 70s 80s build house they're going to learn a lot about what they could do to upgrade their house yeah aesthetically performance how we knitted together all of that stuff the the opportunities that were here that we took and and just ran with are absolutely incredible and the talent i mean the guys that i'm working with in there it's it's crazy you wait till you see it man i can't wait full tour of a 70s remodel today's build show let's get going [Music] all right matt so here's the front entryway look at this wood steve dang so it's all vertical green doug fur vg we have a handful of different uh ceiling designs beautiful now the door that we just walked through that's not going to stay that's not the final door we actually have a mahogany door that was built by the mill workshop so traditional uh woodworks out of burwick maine built all this stuff and they're the ones installing it down here what am i seeing here steve so that's a two-piece closure there's actually two pieces there if you notice there's a piece of bar steel here that goes down oh my god into the basement framing and this is the top of that then this is drilled so bar steel right there it'll go into that that'll have a waterfall top and then that closes to the balustrade look how nice that is and uh oh my gosh so that'll be your newel basement that'll be the newer post and it goes into a waterfall right there wow that's a contemporary and then we have these nice tapered balusters and again i'm working with traditional woodworks out of berwick maine they pre-fab everything in the house all these pieces that are caught all the molding so this wasn't installed on the side board by board well the boards were but i mean everything gets cut all these columns on here they're all pre-fab on-site they come in multiple pieces and then they're put together just like this wow and uh i mean this is pretty spectacular but uh look at this we have the wall and it is it's spectacular but then you see this barrel vault here yeah this is uh this is where the money is in this house wow right what is that plywood that they've curved yeah so it's a it's a bendable fur plywood okay so you can see here there's five basically uh arches okay so all five of these arches were built independently in the shop they had formwork they took their measurements and they had this one big arch so they built each of the five pieces independently in the shop prefabbed it all and then literally brought it here two little crank up lifts put it into place screwed it off and then put the next one up and it's just dominoed into the next into the previous panel and then they marched across the ceiling gorgeous now the room is like 15 nine they built these panels to within about a quarter of an inch of the width of the room and then all we had was this little reveal detail like that to hide the end so that allowed us to get that panel up and that little ravi did reveal detail you can see it's mimicked in that coffered ceiling that gives you a shadow line too and it gives you a really nice shadow line in how this finishes man this is pretty steep and you know they're putting in the window seat there you can see we also in the soffit of the window that window seat it looks like too they prefab everything all the walls the panel for the front of this is already made wow you can see we have a wood soffit up under here on the front face here we have a big mantle arrangement that's flanked by two bookcase arrangements everything is fur with mahogany trim wow and uh those are the two colors there's a nice piece of mahogany right there that's actually flip it over that's the uh that's the rail for the rail top which is going to receive is that a metal no they're all wood paper balusters okay but again it's all pre-manufactured ready to be installed wow that's really pretty ready to roll really pretty looks like they're using some glue over here this is one of my favorites as well the loctite pl premium now this fast grab is a nice one because it'll actually if you're doing something that's going to be a vertical or a horizontal application it'll actually hold the material on too little plug for my friends at loctite right and then you know along with the aesthetics architecture plays you know a really good role when we think this through so i work with the client the wall there you can see it's a three-quarter wall right this is roughly 66 inches and it'd be very easy to say okay make this a full wall but when you do a ceiling like this i told the homeowner i want to be able to see that everywhere i go right so when i walk into the entryway i want people to see the ceiling now i don't want to give away the room but i want to tease them with that ceiling right or if i'm walking down the hallway from the bedrooms i can look over that and one of these columns i believe it's this one is actually a live column so there's a structural column in there and then the other ones are just equally spaced got it in our last video steve we talked about these white egg floors these will get sanded and finished in place i'm assuming they get sanded and finished in place it's a true hardwood three-quarter inch oak floor i'm seeing you've got some registers in here i'm assuming that's just for air conditioning so these are for air conditioning these two are slightly larger this fireplace has a number of options you can burn it and just have the heat come out it actually captures the heat in a chamber between the glass and the actual fireplace really and with the flick of the switch i have two options i can either throw the heat outside because i don't want it and just have the flame or i can re-circuit and use those two vents up there to push the heat back so these flex ducts are connected to the the chamber that's burning or the heat i should say they're capturing and then there's a there's some kind of fan in there that's then blowing it out the fan there's little squirrel fans up there that'll throw it out or there's one at the other end of the house where they'll throw it outside who makes that heat and that's a glow yeah it's a nice you know five foot landscape fireplace so i like that it'll fit in here nice the mantel's got a beautiful arch i mean we got to get you back when this place is done and for sure see it all but hey as beautiful as this room is i got to take you out to the sun room let's go see the sunroom i like it check this out real quick see this has nothing to do with with the beauty of the house but they've got a separate trash can just for food trash i think that's really wise yeah i love seeing that but you know the homeowner joy she calls this steve's room because i can never talk enough about it this is a beautiful room it's uh we did a little tray ceiling in here we have a beautiful modern fan 52 inch minka fan it's absolutely gorgeous very simple and these wood windows look beautiful in here but how can you you know walk walk in the front door and not appreciate a 13 foot by six foot window beautiful man is this the same species as the trim yeah so here's the real trick these are a upvc window with a foil on ah you fooled us some of that that is not wood and it's got a foil on the outside that's an anthracite gray so these are the shucos from uh european architectural supply yeah so you've got a black foil on the outside which looks like an aluminum cladding this is actually upvc and they've made it a dark upvc so it looks like the foil notice the multi-point locking system yep so it's grabbing you know every couple feet and these are european style so it down is locked and up is probably denting yep and this is actually not wood though that's a foil this is not what it is and look at it in that wall where you've got wood trim right next to it you cannot tell that's not a wood window you cannot tell the difference and let's say let's look at the numbers over here so the u factor on the whole window point one three so it's like an r seven something but the u factor of the center of glass c o g u factor center of glass you factor point one zero five so basically it's r10 at the center of the glass you've got r10 the frame is bringing us down just a little bit yeah and the big story of these numbers i think it's that number visible visual transmittance because when you start getting to numbers that even higher than this with domestic products this number goes down to 0.5 and these turn into sunglasses right so you lose a little bit of that clarity yeah with the european and i mean it's a massive window this window i don't know is this mold on site look at that this is a 700 pound window 698 pounds so yeah i like to challenge all the builders that i work with wow you know we do these nice big i challenge first of all i challenge shuko with the 13 foot by six foot window that's cool but uh i like that and then and what's this door so this is their standard lift and slide door right also shuco it's also shuco right when you rotate the handle you notice the door goes up on a set of wheels and this 300 pound door just glides like this just glides right across golly that's cool look how thick that is it looks like a submarine door yeah this is i mean the section through here is probably about eight inches wow so it's uh that's really pretty anything else you want to show us upstairs or can we take a little basement tour we could take a little basement tour we can go down there and talk about what we did hey before we go downstairs steve tell us this is all new drywall which means you probably had new insulation what was your strategy for insulation on these walls so this house here it has what we would term a hot ceiling or a coat uh yeah hot roof so it is fully insulated okay up along the the rafter line not the ceiling you can't see that from anywhere um there is a stairway that we can go up there it's a pull down stair where we can take a peek up there that'd be cool if we can see that yeah why don't we do that i think that'd be fun to see we'll meet you there all right steve i always love the good attitude yeah this is nice you gotta love it interesting to see that your hvac guys here are using a square rigid duct for the trunk line which we usually is round i don't know why we go round and i see a lot of square up here and then they're just dropping a couple feet in flex yeah they like to limit it i don't know why but they they like to limit their flex to like six eight foot runs maximum and what's funny is the returns they don't have a problem they'll use the round on the return right they just don't like it on the supply side and then what's our insulation at the roof deck here so we're probably at roughly around our 50 60 somewhere in that range yeah i mean it's that's a lot of inches 49 is the requirement so we're probably just slightly above that but we have four inches of uh lopola's uh 2000 uh 4g product so it has a gwp of one global warming potential so wow so really really a good side of spray foams and then we finish it typically with six or seven inches of open cell okay so we're seeing a couple inches open cell then four inches of clothes right right at the roof deck you know because in this climate you want a really thick and you don't want to have the moisture moving through it yep so getting to that uh cool roof deck got it and now you've got a radiant floor system so this is probably mainly doing air conditioning here you've got a carrier system but this is a heat pump i see there's no gas coming into this yeah so you could run supplemental heat on here as well certainly we could put a heating coil in there i've never seen this box before what is this april air doing for you so that's a humidification system oh a humidifier so we have a lot of woodwork downstairs so just the end the the couple there for on the comfort side they want to maintain that humidity in the uh um what you call in the winter months so so this is a water line coming in and this is so it basically squirts a little steam in there oh it has it to the air generator yeah wow so and it'll insert a little air into that air stream and raise the moisture content so this is actually feeding steam through this line and into the return side on the furnace that's really neat and then you've got a big old aprilaire filter in here too i love these yup i use a lot of these where i am too really easy to change this filter out there we go and you've got a merv 13 in there to start with but you could upgrade that to merv 15. yup you might even be able to get a merv 16 for this i'm not sure i can't yeah you get a merv 16 on here too so 10 13 15 16 in your options nice thing about these two is you just change them once a year yeah they're really really easy to change once a year change out this attic's cool man yeah steve but i really want to see though is what i don't have at all i do a lot of these condition attics in texas i don't have any basements will you give me a basement tour yeah we got we got 2 000 square feet of below grade space in this house that we'll meet you down in the basement check out this basement oh man i love basements i miss basements i grew up in the northeast but in texas you know we have uh rocks six inches down plus we have no frost line so it's really hard to get a basement this is a nice space yeah we're we're probably 2 000 plus down here so this is the 70s house though right so this is an old foundation there's an old foundation old basement we put three editions on the back we'll jump outside we'll take a look at that in a minute but uh you know coming down here part of the strategy is kind of whole house insulation i have had houses where we've actually cracked the slab and pulled it out insulated put a new slab in it wasn't in this one's budget we're connected to the earth we're connected to the earth we're coupled there so the new insulation goes from the ground or from the slab up okay you know here we're going to have a nice little kitchenette on the other side there we have a powder room so you don't have to go upstairs for the bathroom and then pump in the corner here so this is in a sump pump this is actually a grinder ejector pump so everything you know architecturally it's laid out so we have the sink the toilet and the sink for the kitchenette it's all right here dumps into there that ejects up and it'll connect to our sewer line okay right here so it only needs to go up a couple it just needs to go up a couple feet i mean the invert on that isn't very large and that sewer going through the wall they they builders refer to that as a hung sewer meaning it's not below the grade of our floor slab it's hung up above but as long as we can get that um black water above that level then it can flow downhill it'll flow down and go right back into the sewer again also notice you've got a wall hung uh carriage in here this is a wall hung toilet yeah every bathroom in this house is outfitted with a toto wall hung toilet very cool the homeowners you know they want that ease of clean underneath but hey here's here's the thought remember when we were down in austin we were looking at that house we peeled back the baseboard and we had the mold issue and i talked about how the wall was coupled look what we did here this is always that's a great tip man so when you basement framed this wall instead of just nailing this pressure to you to straight to the concrete you put a just an inexpensive sill sealer down yeah it's a it's a very small thermal break but it's also a capillary break and it's enough to get that to get that bottom of the wall closer to the temperature of the room and less of the temperature of the inside but that's a standard detail of mine frame your basements with a little seal sealer underneath and really puts it underneath i've got a kohler carriage like this going in the powder bath my house i'm excited to put one in yeah now tell me about the insulation strategy down here steve you mentioned it but uh how thick how much do we need in our basements so we've made it here we need if we do continuous we do r10 okay i do about r15 so this is like roughly seven and a half this is that same lipolo 4g product that's a cheetah per inch seven and a half per inch so we've got two inches here so we have two inches so we're roughly in that r 14 15 range and uh but it goes all the way up it goes into that cavity and it connects to the slab so it helps with that air tightness tightening and you're also then because you're going up into that cavity you've got your two by i don't know what those are ten or two those are twelve yeah and that's that close so spray foam is gonna seal off though it seals off all that band joyce there and you notice we actually have a couple areas where there's new floor joists we have the new zip advantec part of this the 70s ranch had a couple dropped floors that the homeowners hated they wanted everything on the same level so we cut out you can see as this marches along right here it switches to the old floor system again ah so that's an old 2x12 that's the old 2x12 that was up this was a floor that was down that we now push back up so that improves the quality of life down here in the basement yeah by pushing it up got it got one other thing to show you before we leave one thing that i don't see very often is this right here oh the strapping yeah i forgot you're from texas we don't do shopping yeah talk to me about that is that just that's kind of a standard detail for it's a standard detail we'll never pull it out because as you can see the electricians look forward to it wow because they just run their stuff staple they can staple in between plumbers can put a small pipe in there which also means then you're not drilling a bunch of holes and compromising your two by twelves right and it takes a little bit of the wow out of the system you know if those solids on joists have a little bit of a you know ground on them that'll help take some of it out as well as you know when i when i do a real high performance home where we're doing say like an r60 70 ceiling or something we'll switch these to 12-inch centers so i can take a 24-inch truss system and make it a 12-inch support system by swapping those it's not quite a three-quarter though no it's like it's like 11 16 yeah it's just under just the hair under and it's almost this one particularly looks like it's rough on it yeah it doesn't need to be expensive finish material you know i put these on the outside of the house for rain screen systems oh yeah we use that but would you want to show me down here this room here joy wanted a craft room but we also wanted to have a another means of egress so this is going to have a nice pair of french doors here okay and this is her own little private hideaway the woman cave if you will gotcha but you can see here we have our same real windows and these open up and we have a well full egress so we have a detail out there that will have a little stepped um vegetative wall super small so you can climb out in case of a fire and then climb out of the well that's really cool it's a coat approved egress system and what's up with the uh hose bibs going in underneath this so the hose bib here is this layers we have all radiant but we didn't have the luxury of being able to put the radiant so we're just doing some simple baseboard down here uh so there's no radiant floor so this is going through a baseboard it's just going to absolutely we'll have a radiator or a baseboard radiator that'll circulate hot water through it got it yep and that closed cell foam is going to keep it nice yeah that baseboard we don't obviously we don't need a whole lot it's about a six foot strip now steve you could have um we've got a detail that you came up with that i'm going to be doing on my house pretty soon that i've seen you do before where you take an old slab and you put foam on top of it i'm putting halo foam in my house an inch and a half of it and then we put two layers of advantech opposite each other you could have done that down here we could have done that we would have lost a little bit of the headroom that you know again because it's an existing structure they didn't want to give that up it's tightening up and it's one of those things where it's it would have been you know another significant part of the budget that you know in this particular project maybe it wasn't necessary i don't need it steve awesome tour man let's meet you out front or do it no we're going to jump out back i just want to give you a quick perspective on the back because there's there's three additions here it's pretty spectacular the siding and stuff we're using then we'll jump out front we'll wrap it up and we'll meet you back steve white and black pretty classic what's the story back here man it's pretty clients love it and we deliver what clients want man you give them what they want right we knew and i will say this technically it's not black it's anthracite gray that's that favorite color color isn't it but uh you can see i think it was important and we jump out here and you see the additions that we do because i think it's a really nice compliment to the house right we did it in three pieces we held true to some hierarchy so the house was flat before and these pop-outs we're seeing with the really pretty they had this 1970s greenhouse that was horrible so we got rid of that we got rid of this massive chimney and that's where the new middle sunroom is but you can see i pumped that ceiling up about 16 inches above though so it gives a little bit more character to that room we can get the bigger windows in there there's a higher house exactly i like that we have about a 1200 square foot deck out here you can see we have these two ipe these are herb gardens so they're actually she's gonna grow all her spices and stuff for cooking in there we have a cable rail system that goes around there over in the far side there you can see we have that egress basement window that's hard a second ago so you can climb out there but you know let's talk for two seconds about something that nobody ever talks about the dirty backyard right you can see this corner here well when you have ac units you have generators you have all this stuff tuck them around like this beautiful as they are you don't want to see them they want to be somewhere else so you notice there's no windows in that corner it's going to have a seven foot stockade fence that completes that corner they're going to disappear the landscaping plan it's the utility area it's where we park all the bad stuff i love that but the siding on here one by eight borel slope channel takes paint you can see extremely well gives that nice modern profile with the black windows and i mentioned earlier i really like your hip roof steve the way you've got those hips which gives you the ability to put that soffit overhang everywhere to really protect those windows you've got a almost like a visor cap yeah and we have some lights in there for some accent lighting and the other thing that on an architectural side to note is with the hip roof and bringing that soffit down it brings the scale down right so it makes walking around that deck very comfortable because it's almost like a ceiling it's not this two-story gabled structure that ceiling is right there so it's uh i mean they're overwhelmed with joy i love this place that's beautiful man let's wrap the video at the front of the house we'll show you a little before and after and we'll finish it up there all right steve we're back where we started we're back before we go i just wanted to point out this beautiful portico again traditional millworks made all of these tapered columns for us in this shop they made them as three sided units with the closure piece put it all together and this the funny story is this wasn't part of the original design we had this god-awful portico that i hated and i waited until we got well along with the design and i sprung it on the homeowners i didn't even ask them about i just came over with a new model and said you know let's talk about the front you're like oh we're gonna keep that and i said now let's rethink that for a second and they're like well what were you thinking so they were open-minded i showed them the model they said you know what we absolutely love it and so we took this god-awful portico and i'll show you that old picture here and then that old picture we changed it we pulled it off and the beauty was you could see the the white there on the brick it wasn't tied into the masonry wall the portico was built onto it so literally the excavator grabbed it just pulled it off the house and it was and it was it just collapsed right the roof was attached but the brick piers and stuff on the side they came awful but anyways we got this nice entryway now blue stone cows don't care it's gorgeous this looks like a pvc like a versatile material it's gorgeous man but great work steve but not only that i mean the house not only is it beautiful but it's super efficient really airtight it's going to be really comfortable for these new homeowners if you haven't seen our video that and i made we did a whole video about the floors in here he's got warm board radiant floor in-floor heating which is going to heat up those hardwoods i got to spend some time with your homeowners really really kind people yeah this is this is great and for those of you that don't know it you want to build show network i have a whole series of ranch remodel videos that take all these aspects that we talked about in this video into really high detail we go back to the office pull out big red throw down some explanations he's got some great videos y'all in the description below i'm gonna have a link for steve's instagram feed he's making great uh stories every day and great pictures sign up also for our newsletter steve's got new videos every friday on build show network there'll be a link for that below so you can get a notification 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Channel: Matt Risinger

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Length: 27min 31sec (1651 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 16 2020