Home Remodel: New Doors, Windows, baseboard heaters and Tubular Skylights

Home Depot Product Pages

Add Tubular Skylights to most rooms

• VELUX 14 in. Sun Tunnel Tubular Skylight with Flexible Tunnel and Low Profile Flashing 
• Are Solar Tubes Worth it. Make sure they have a thermal break ... 3 pieced of plexiglass.
  
• VELUX sun tunnel DIY install - EASY how to fit a solar tube or suntube
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Replace small bedroom thermostat with Nest Smart Home Thermostat

Replace small bedroom baseboard heater

Maybe not in existing small bedroom

ThruWall 7-5/8 in. Transfer Fan

Not necessary in utility room.

Replace double hung window in utility room

Replace Exterior door to utility room

Probably no skylights in the kitchen, but replace exhaust fan.

replace baseboard heater in the dining room

Add tubular skylight in Dining Room

No skylight necessary in hallway

replace thermostat in master bedroom with Nest thermostat (above and below images)

replace baseboard heater in master bedroom

add 2 tubular skylights in masterbedroom

Maybe hold off on replacing window in existing small bedroom

replace window in dining room

Conversion of crawl space to basement gardening shed and storage

Back Porch

Front Porch 4 Seasons Room Enclosure

Video Tutorials

• How to Make a Four Season Room from a Porch

Garage Conversion

Greenhouse

Inspiration from Earthships

• Description of glass, operable windows and skylites and view of doors and glass into main

Backyard Outbuilding aka Shed/Studio Workshop

Introduction

Welcome to Stevo's Summer 2020 Home Remodel Project: This project consists of the follow Sub-Projects

• Backyard Outbuilding aka Shed/Studio Workshop
• Seattle Egress Window Rules
• Seattle Egress Window Rules
• EMERGENCY ESCAPE AND RESCUE OPENINGS SHALL BE OPERABLE FROM THE INSIDE OF THE ROOM WITHOUT THE USE OF KEYS, TOOLS OR SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE
• Emergency egress rules as per WAC
•  - Every bedroom or other room designed expressly for sleeping purposes must have a window that meets the minimum requirements of at least 5.0 square feet of opening for emergency egress.
•  - Rooms that have a door, with a minimum clear opening of twenty-eight inches wide by seventy-two inches high, which opens directly to the outside do not need to have an emergency egress window.
•  - Windows and devices must be installed in a manner which allows for proper operation.
•  -  The bottom of the opening of an egress window shall be no more than thirty-six inches above the floor.
• Note: In some cases, the height of the bottom of the window can be increased to forty-four inches when the clear net area is increased to 5.7 square feet of opening.

• Greenhouse

• Garage Conversion

• Front Porch 4 Season Room Enclosure

• Back Porch 4 Season Room Enclosure

 

• Conversion of Crawl Space

 

• Existing Home Remodel: New Doors, Windows, Baseboard Heaters, Tubular Skylights, Exhaust Fans, intake fans into Front Porch enclosure and Back Porch Enclosure