Heating/Cooling Project

Work began on August 3, 2006, to install a new heating/cooling system in the school. We expect the project to be completed well before winter.


Duct work and heating/cooling units to be installed.	Tom Turner (center, behind table) and his crew meet with Mike (engineer) and Ralph Larew, BOPARC, for final conference before installation begins. 8-3-06	Drop cielings come down for installation of duct work for new heating system.	Copper pipe for hot water heating and cooling.	Electrical upgrade: new breaker boxes

Duct work moved into individual rooms for installation	Panels in furnace room for new 300 amp electrical service.	Wires & breakers installed, 8/28/06	Duct from heating unit in cloak room in Lounge Room	Overhead heat duct and lateral extensions to be completed in Lounge Room 9/7/06

Old electric breaker box comes out.	New electric breaker boxes go in.	New electric service through stone wall to outside will serve heat pumps. Nine heat pumps will be located in various places around the building outside.	The new heat pump electrical service outside old library (or cafeteria) room.	Old duct work almost completely removed 9/17/06.

View from basement room that once served as cafeteria, most recently as library. Stairway upstairs is visible with removal of drywall that closed off entrance from downstairs hallway. Gaping hole in ceiling shows removal of old ductwork.	Heat register at entrance in main hallway, seen from basement with removal of old duct work.	New duct work completed in Lounge Room and in Crafts Room. It will look the same in all rooms and will be hidden by new drop ceilings.	Duct work removed in girls bathroom.	10/18/06 Copper pipe for hot water heat being installed overhead. It will be above the new drop ceiling.

10/18/06 This was the room where a huge circulating fan blew heat from the furnace to the upper rooms. The fan has been removed to make way for three new hot water boilers, which will supplement the heat pumps which will be located outside.	10/18/06 This note from the past, dating from the time that gas replaced coal as the main source of heat, will remain as part of the school's history.	10/18/06 Utilities (electric, cable, telephone) will run underground from Center St. to the school. This work will cost us a bit more than stringing lines overhead, but we think it's worth the cost.	Main electric service, 300 amp, going underground outside old furnace room window.	Just-poured cement platform for electric transformer, straw-covered against one of our first freezing nights of the season.

Burying conduit for main electric service, cable TV, telephone.	Three new gas boilers to supplement the heat pumps (nine of them) outside the building. One gas boiler will be on line and working by mid week 10/31/06.	10/31--underground cables in place, the ditch covered, cables up the pole, and hookup in process in the above photo.	Main transformer now on the ground by school rather than on the pole by the street. All cables are tied in and ready to go into the school. The transformer will be fenced off from the playground.	Old transformers coming down from pole and new cable hookup. A perfect day for such work.

New ventilation systems for both restrooms.	12/4/06 New gas boilers are hooked up and providing heat to the whole building. The draft and dampness is all gone. The building is cozy and warm	New 300 amp electrical service is now complete and operational. These are substantial breaker boxes, as you can see.	The gas valves and burners have been removed from in front of the old coal furnace. We will probably sand blast the face of the furnace to restore it to its original condition.	This looks like an air conditioning unit but it's actually a heat pump. Nine of them are now being located outside the old school at all four corners. The gas boilers are a backup to the heat pumps.

The last three heat pumps were put in place this week, Feb. 2, 2007. This completes installation of the heating/cooling system.	Close up of heat pumps.