Progress during the last month has been a mish-mash of small details. Soon Logan and Mark will arrive for a big push.
Much of the work in the past month has been devoted to plumbing, something I have very little experience in. Of course, I won’t know how well I’ve done until the water is turned on and the drains have been tested. The above two photos show plumbing for the kitchen sink.
The photo above shows the bathroom sink plumbing. The vent pipe ties directly into the drainage system.
It felt good to finally get the shower set in place! The left photo shows the shower, the right photo shows the water supply lines that I will leave in the open — at least for a while — so I can see if they leak.
The main drain with its large 4-inch and 3-inch pipes gave me fits. I threw out one whole section due to botched gluing, and even after getting the large pipes glued in, I had to make adjustments getting the other pipes in correctly. I have been dry-fitting all the pipes before gluing. The left photo shows the main horizontal drain with large pipes (3-inch main), and the right photo shows the main drain as it goes out of the building (4-inch main).
I am putting lots of valves on the supply lines, both so I can test the plumbing and so I can troubleshoot sections without shutting down everything. Note the whacky orientation of the valve handles in the right photo (bathroom sink supply).
We will be working on the porch when Logan and Mark arrive. In preparation for that, Wylie used my new hand-pumped hydraulic log splitter, and Jan stopped by and used the tractor to move the firewood out from under the porch.