Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Day 12: Plumbing started

Coady Barnum and Adam White showed up to begin plumbing. They made measurements and planned the positions of drains and vents. The finish floor is a concrete slab, so it is very important to get all of these positions correct. There is no opportunity to make changes after the slab is poured. Coady used a laser level to establish the finish floor position. This allowed the drain for the most important seat in the house (the toilet) to be positioned – see the pic below. The big open tube pointing up is the toilet drain. The smaller tube heading off to the left is the vent, which will eventually go all the way up through the roof.

In the next picture you can see the utility room sink, washing machine and floor drains.

Besides this plumbing work, Granite Rock delivered 2 truckloads of drainage rock that will eventually be spread out evenly on the subgrade.


Green comment for today:

Building a home with one bathroom minimizes plumbing materials and complexity. This works for us because there are only two living in the home.

Thanks for reading. I appreciate your comments.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The youngsters like the videos. More videos, please of cool things like dump trucks dumping and bulldozers dozing.
Paul