It’s been a cold and wet spring in the Northeast, so I haven’t gotten to work on the house much. But, alas, it’s starting to feel more like summer and I’m finding the time to balance house projects with everyday life once again. I’ve spent a couple of trips at the house mostly cleaning up, doing yardwork, and prepping projects for the summer.
The first project to commence is plumbing with the following sequential steps:
- Rough plumbing for first bathroom vanity
- Mount and plumb tankless hot water heater
- Have gas company complete water heater install and turn gas back on
- Install first bathroom vanity and finally have running cold AND hot water
- Install radiant floor PEX in the back half of the house
- Install shower pan in the first bathroom
I’ve completed the first task and here’s the manifold with the new lines installed:
And here’s the rough plumbing for the vanity in the bathroom:
It’s pretty simple, really, and wasn’t even that hard of a project. Except that getting under the house in precisely the right location to complete this was really tricky. I had to shimmy in a crawl space that is less than 18″ and I found some broken glass in that area just to make it more of a challenge. I spent some time cleaning it out to be sure I wouldn’t ultimately shimmy across the glass and I’ll need to do a little more of that when I get to connecting the shower plumbing down the road.
It feels good to get even a small project completed in this sequence and hopefully I’ll be getting more done in the summer weeks.