Basement Remodeling: Furnaces & Other Services

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jeremy Blackwell, I'm here today to help you get started on your basement remodel project. Something else you want to think about if you do decide to finish your basement in stages, is access to the plumbing and heating. If you decide to finish your basement in stages and you cover up any access to your plumbing it's going to be more expensive to tear off the sheet rock and get to the plumbing than it would be if you initially thought that through. This is a good example of a room, the plumbing is coming down into the water heater where they'll tap into the main line and then run it over to the bathroom. This is already been done in this case, but remember to think about that. Also the the heating, the main trunk line has already been covered up. But before we covered anything up in this house with sheet rock, we ran heat to all the necessary locations. One of the things that you want to think about when thinking about doing your own heating, is that the size of the furnace and the locations of these ducts and the lengths of the ducts that you'll be running is, is very important. This is another place where I would strongly encourage you to hire a licensed professional. This heater is sized, or this furnace is sized for the house and the basement, but some sub contractors out there nowadays will put in a furnace that's only sized for the main floor and in that case you'd have to buy a whole new furnace for the basement or a fireplace. If you didn't do that and tried to tap into the existing trunk lines, your whole furnace may shut off just because of the air ratios that are involved with that process. So it is important to think about hiring a professional at that time. "