More progress!
The telephone and cable lines coming into the mechanical room.
The purpose of this blog is to share our home construction experience with our family and friends. Glad you stopped by! Check back frequently, as we plan to keep this updated as a journal of our progress.
Dwayne has successfully hooked the main water line into the house! We were suprised at that fact alone but another great suprise was the amount of water pressure. When Dwayne turned the water on, it shot at least twenty feet across the basement!
I haven't told Dwayne but I've actually decided that I no longer want a new house and prefer to stay where we are! NOT A CHANCE! (Just joking honey! Have you come to yet?) We just decided to relocate our washer and dryer so he had to move the washer/dryer hook-up. Dwayne doing the plumbing has come in very handy!!!
We found out that we had to run a separate line for our "grey water" or water that doesn't come from a bathroom. Dwayne had to do some re-routing but got the grey line out from the front of the house and down to the lateral lines.
I was a little concerned when I got out to the house and saw this huge hole- I was wondering if Dwayne had had enough and was preparing to end it all (somewhat like his Treo that he accidently dropped off the top of the roof!) I was relieved to learn that this was only the hole for the septic tank!
Just when I thought things were getting better as far as dirt piles and ditches, I went out and found three more ditches! Right now you cannot drive up to the house unless you come in from the neighbors driveway at the bottom of the hill. I guess it always gets a little worse before it gets better! Dwayne is working on getting water and electric into the house.
This week Dwayne is working on connecting the water and electric to the house. Somehow he is going to connect these pipes from the main water supply
We were fortunate to have a long-time friend, Stephen Mason, help out today with electrical work. Dwayne commented several times how great it was to have a third set of hands. They were able to get quite a bit done-here are can lights going up in the vaulted keeping room.