Today I finished taping the roof seams.
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| North Roof Taped |
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| South Roof Taped |
I also manage to tape the bathroom, kitchen and both living room window.
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| Bathroom Window Taped |
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| Kitchen Window Taped |
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| Living Room Windows Taped |
Hopefully, tomorrow I can manage to tape the Front Door and the Sliding Door and I'll be done taping.
I built a couple of triangular walls on each side of the front edge of the loft.
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| Loft Walls |
Today I managed to finish up the water supply plumbing. PEX is so easy to work with. I remember the first house I built back in '82 and we used copper. It was miserable.
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| Toilet plumbing |
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| Bathroom Sink Plumbing |
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| Electric, on-demand water heater |
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| Kitchen Sink Plumbing |
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| Water Heater |
After that was done I managed to install almost all of the light fixture boxes in preparation for running my electric wires.
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| Bathroom Light Boxes |
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| Kitchen Light Boxes |
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| Under the Loft Light Boxes |
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| In the Loft Light Boxes |
I started running the water supply. First step was to connect from the poly-pipe coming into the crawl space to a shut-off valve and then to PEX up into the house. It require that I shut off the water at the road while I modified the pipes in the crawl-space.
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| Crawl Space Water Supply |
Once up into the house I ran the cold water lines to the shower, the washer and over to the toilet area.
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| Washer/Shower Cold Water |
It was dry and almost no wind today so I got up on the roof again. I managed to get most of the taping done. I couldn't reach the top seams and the edges so I need to wait until I borrow another ladder from my son.
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| South Roof |
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| North Roof |
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| East Wall |
Now, other than the top and edges of the roof, all I have left to tape are the door and window openings.
The weather has been kind of rainy & windy and I'm not thrilled working on the roof in those conditions. So, I refocused to work on my drain plumbing. I installed drains for both the kitchen & bathroom sink, a toilet flange, a washing machine center and the shower drain. One 2" vent is run up into the loft and I'll later run it through the roof. The rest goes down into the crawl space and out through the wall to the septic tank. I'm pretty sure that at least half of my time doing this was spent running back and forth to Lowe's & Home Depot to get the right fittings.
The only two joints that I didn't glue up are the toilet flange (because I want to install the bathroom floor before permanent installation of the flange) and the shower drain (because I need to remove the shower base and put it back in place with adhesive on the floor).
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| Kitchen Drain |
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| Toilet Flange & Bathroom Sink Drain |
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| Washing Machine Hookup and Vent |
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| Shower Stall & vent |
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| Crawl Space Plumbing |
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| Crawl Space Plumbing |
Since the last post I've gotten a lot done. Finished the spackling and painting and painted the inside of the front door. I picked up a...
