It's all about the
mechanicals this week -- plumbing, septic, electric, gas...lots of fun stuff but not lots of worthy photos...We're moving right along -- we got the septic system in under the wire and the boiler got fired up for the first time today!
Here you see the electric panel with the outgoing sewer pipe...we ran into a small snag with the septic -- it turns out that it is 5 inches higher than the sewage pipe that leaves the house -- oops. So, no big deal, right? WRONG....we have to install a double pump with a 100 gallon storage tank to pump the sewage out of the house and up into the septic tank...which is a gravity tank.... ($4000) which we didn't plan for...ouch. So instead of going on vacation, for the next three years, we'll go into the basement and look at the pump. Sure beats the
BVI. When we have this pump installed we'll be sure to post some photos. (Family if you are reading this, you'll understand why there will be no Christmas presents this year...instead you'll be welcome to use our toilets anytime...)
Back to the good stuff. Here's the plumbing for the powder room on the first floor. The rough in is
complete and inspected -- signed off on by the plumbing inspector.
Here's the guest bathroom upstairs.
We also started
Eclectic this week...lots of progress there -- we should be done with rough in by the end of this week so that insulation can start.
Here's one component of our Contender boiler -- it's small and super
efficient -- 93% actually.
Water tank, boiler -- orange tubes are for heat, blue for cold water and red for hot water...
Here you see the electric panel with the outgoing sewer pipe...we ran into a small snag with the septic -- it turns out that it is 5 inches higher than the sewage pipe that leaves the house -- oops. So, no big deal, right? WRONG....we have to install a double pump with a 100 gallon storage tank to pump the sewage out of the house and up into the septic tank...which is a gravity tank.... ($4000) which we didn't plan for...ouch. So instead of going on vacation, for the next three years, we'll go into the basement and look at the pump. Sure beats the BVI. When we have this pump installed we'll be sure to post some photos. (Family if you are reading this, you'll understand why there will be no Christmas presents this year...instead you'll be welcome to use our toilets anytime...)
Back to the good stuff. Here's the plumbing for the powder room on the first floor. The rough in is complete and inspected -- signed off on by the plumbing inspector.
Here's the guest bathroom upstairs.
We also started Eclectic this week...lots of progress there -- we should be done with rough in by the end of this week so that insulation can start.
Here's one component of our Contender boiler -- it's small and super efficient -- 93% actually.
Water tank, boiler -- orange tubes are for heat, blue for cold water and red for hot water...
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