The folks from McDowall Company, our contractors for replacing the HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) system at the Weyerhaeuser Museum, are making quick work of the project. They started tearing out the old system on Monday, October 4, 2021. By Wednesday, October 6, 2021, they had removed the boilers, air handler, and most of the ductwork from the furnace room. The space looks so large, we feel like we could host a cotillion in it!
Here are some before and after photos. Pay attention to the dates in the captions for the timeline of what happened when.
Gas boilers in front of air handler in the furnace room at The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum, Little Falls, MN. This system was originally installed when the museum was built in 1974/75, with the gas boilers being an upgrade in the 1990s. Photo taken October 2, 2021.South side of the giant metal air handler with control panel (box near top center of photos) and humidifier (larger box on lower left). Note that the air handler is so large that it was impossible to get a photo of the entire system. Photo taken October 2, 2021.The northwest side of the air handler, showing one of the gas boilers, Weyerhaeuser Museum, October 2, 2021.South side of the air handling unit with the control panel, humidifier, and side removed, exposing the large, dark cavities inside the air handler. Weyerhaeuser Museum, photo taken October 4, 2021.View of the west side of the air handler – the boilers are gone! Weyerhaeuser Museum, October 4, 2021.View looking northwest in the furnace room at the Weyerhaeuser Museum. Look, there’s no air handler or other furnace equipment blocking the view! Instead, there are four boxes lined up on the cement pad where the air handler used to sit … our new high-efficiency gas furnaces waiting to be installed. October 6, 2021.
