More plumbing and a new back door

  

The new septic line was leveled out and buried properly, hooray for functional septic parts!

 

Here's a bit of PEX piping sticking out where the washer goes in the mudroom. PEX is awesome, so much more awesome than copper.

 

Here Joel is working on the shower. We decided to just get the pipes replaced and come back later to re-tile everything. Get it all working so we can move in and deal with aesthetics later. 

 

 

Here's the set up for the bathroom sink, incoming water and outgoing drain.

 

This is the maple tree in the front yard. The garden is there in the background. 

  

This was the back door. It was a cobbled together special with many things wrong with it, so we decided to replace it.

 

 

While we were at it we decided that a wider door would be nice too. Here's the door opening with the old door removed but not yet widened.

  

My dad showed up in the middle of the door replacement to watch and help. Here Joel is smoothing out the thinset that we used to seal the bottom of the door frame to the concrete.

 

Joel put in ton of work this day to get the door installed and functional. I think he's proud of it, can you tell? :)

Plumbing work!

 

This is the pipe out to the septic tank which is just on the other side of the blackberry bushes at the top of the photo. The lower half of the pipe is cast iron, probably from when the house was built in 1947. The second half of the pipe is PVC, probably from the 70's when the second bedroom closet was converted into a bathroom. The PVC pipe was just small enough to cram inside the cast iron pipe, so that's how the two were connected. The cast iron is rusted out in several places and the PVC was crushed in at least one place. The whole run had several root balls inside it to make matters worse. Clearly the whole thing needed to go.

 

Here Joel and Chris (one of the plumbers) take a gander at some of the new pipe they laid down.

 

 

A sampling of some of the pipes that were removed from the house. Most of it was rusted-out galvanized pipe.

 

The carport has been the staging area for most of the work we've done this year. Here you can see PVC parts for the new septic and drainage pipes, a nice stack of drywall and even our new back door which is there in the background.

 

 

The new septic line all installed and awaiting proper burial.

 

The demolition of the bathroom has started as well. More to come soon!