Plumbing, not done,.......
Got all the old galvanized pipe out, except I am leaving about 2ft coming in and out of the water tank. Easier to let that dog lie, and there were handy fittings right there. I still have to finish up hangers, and add two tees right inline with each other, in the new 3/4 pex run to feed the washer and bathroom vanity. That will not be a big job. I quit around 5:30, ate, took a breather. JUST got back in here 9:30PM after about a last of 45 minutes--got the hot run to the shower. So now I have water back in the house, and a brand new outdoor faucet out front from Friday.
And When I get a breath, I'm gonna add another outdoor frost free out back. I did have both hot and cold, comeing from the old kitchen sink, and straight through the wall. I may wait until the inspectors are all gone, and re-create that setup.
Otherwise, I'll just punch a nearby hole in the sill and come directly out of the basement with cold only
I FINALLY seemed to regained my impressive 77 year old strength LOLOL. That cold--whatever I had, ate my *** now for over a MONTH
This all still needs hangers. Part of the "sloppy" is because I just simply have not cleaned up some of the odd low voltage/ old telco wiring, and also what you can't see is I had to already remove considerable amounts of the furnace ducting just to get to the piping. I'll have to clean the ducting anyhow, so this was not wasted effort.
Still needs hangers, etc. So I still have a fair amount.
Need to hook the hot to the vanity and laundry are the big things.
Laundry. This was already pex down into the basement, connecting there to the old galvanized. All this was melted in the fire I detest these new valves---they close CCW instead of CW
No hangers yet, the new front faucet. I hit that one winter with the little cletrac dozer and bent the outside of the faucet all up LOL. The ugly thing in the middle is RF heliax, hi quality, low loss UHF coax
The shower. This piping is in a box under the joists in the electronics room, the front faucet runs off to the left. Need more hangers for all of this
Below,toilet. Yup, that is original cast iron / lead &oakum sealed 1950's sewer stack.
Below,the vanity. Still need to connect the hot,
cold water tees to the vanity/ toilet, and to the laundry Hot will hopefully be done tomorrow
Below, all that's left of galvanized. I partly left it for convenience, and because it provides a good anchor point You can't see here, but there's a pex tee in the cold for the kitchen, and the tee in the galvanized to pex transistion has a plug facing to the rear, this will be the kitchen hot connection I guess I'll stick a frost free through the sill up to left, and connect to the blue in the corner, which is the supply into the house
ll the old 1950's ****. Some of it had considerable internal rust, and some looked pretty good for all those years. For some reason they use a HUGE number of unions, which made getting it out easier. I recently scored 2 used 24" wrenches for a good price, and the shape I'm in, I need all the torque arm I can get.
The vanity stubs. It is just sitting there, and won't be connected until drywall I had NOTHING to do, by the way, with notching the stud to the left. This is not a supporting wall, tho
Got all the old galvanized pipe out, except I am leaving about 2ft coming in and out of the water tank. Easier to let that dog lie, and there were handy fittings right there. I still have to finish up hangers, and add two tees right inline with each other, in the new 3/4 pex run to feed the washer and bathroom vanity. That will not be a big job. I quit around 5:30, ate, took a breather. JUST got back in here 9:30PM after about a last of 45 minutes--got the hot run to the shower. So now I have water back in the house, and a brand new outdoor faucet out front from Friday.
And When I get a breath, I'm gonna add another outdoor frost free out back. I did have both hot and cold, comeing from the old kitchen sink, and straight through the wall. I may wait until the inspectors are all gone, and re-create that setup.
Otherwise, I'll just punch a nearby hole in the sill and come directly out of the basement with cold only
I FINALLY seemed to regained my impressive 77 year old strength LOLOL. That cold--whatever I had, ate my *** now for over a MONTH
This all still needs hangers. Part of the "sloppy" is because I just simply have not cleaned up some of the odd low voltage/ old telco wiring, and also what you can't see is I had to already remove considerable amounts of the furnace ducting just to get to the piping. I'll have to clean the ducting anyhow, so this was not wasted effort.
Still needs hangers, etc. So I still have a fair amount.
Need to hook the hot to the vanity and laundry are the big things.
Laundry. This was already pex down into the basement, connecting there to the old galvanized. All this was melted in the fire I detest these new valves---they close CCW instead of CW
No hangers yet, the new front faucet. I hit that one winter with the little cletrac dozer and bent the outside of the faucet all up LOL. The ugly thing in the middle is RF heliax, hi quality, low loss UHF coax
The shower. This piping is in a box under the joists in the electronics room, the front faucet runs off to the left. Need more hangers for all of this
Below,toilet. Yup, that is original cast iron / lead &oakum sealed 1950's sewer stack.
Below,the vanity. Still need to connect the hot,
cold water tees to the vanity/ toilet, and to the laundry Hot will hopefully be done tomorrow
Below, all that's left of galvanized. I partly left it for convenience, and because it provides a good anchor point You can't see here, but there's a pex tee in the cold for the kitchen, and the tee in the galvanized to pex transistion has a plug facing to the rear, this will be the kitchen hot connection I guess I'll stick a frost free through the sill up to left, and connect to the blue in the corner, which is the supply into the house
ll the old 1950's ****. Some of it had considerable internal rust, and some looked pretty good for all those years. For some reason they use a HUGE number of unions, which made getting it out easier. I recently scored 2 used 24" wrenches for a good price, and the shape I'm in, I need all the torque arm I can get.
The vanity stubs. It is just sitting there, and won't be connected until drywall I had NOTHING to do, by the way, with notching the stud to the left. This is not a supporting wall, tho
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