"The challenges certainly gave the job some personality," noted Yates. The Martin family lives in a 2,400-square-foot log home dating back to the Revolutionary War. Its stone foundation walls and massive, hand-hewn logs that defy pipe and tubing runs, has been in the Martin family for six generations, and it was about to undergo its first-ever major renovation.
Roughly one-half of the home would be involved in the renovation. Fortunately, the basement had a large room for the mechanicals, which were once necessary for the large boiler. Without the boiler there was plenty of room for the new mechanical components.