Days 63-75 Plumbing electrical and HVAC

Hello again all, sorry for the big delay. Things continue to be completely crazy here. Monica was out in LA all last week so I didn't have time to go over to the house to take more pics or update the blog. My respect for single parents grows every day...

So on to the pictures!


Hyo framed out the arches over the entry way. they will be drywalled and will be tall enough to get a 3" crown across the front in the dining room.


In this shot you can see both of them together. Because we cut back the wall on the side of the stairs on the side of the old dining room, the two entry ways are the same depth, so the arches are identical.



Upstairs plumbing in the laundry room. The white box contains the hook ups and the drain line. Because of the easy access tot he roof on the second floor, pretty much everything has its own vent line. It will be nice to have really good flowing drains.


Hall bathroom. The space is wide enough to have a very large vanity with two sinks as well as a space on either side to give the cabinet a more furniture like feel. I think this will be a very nice touch.


To the far left you can see the drain for the toilet. the near drain and supply are for the hall bath tub. The plans have changed a little since you all saw them last. The hall bath will have a door that opens out into the hallway and a small toilet room with a pocket door to the left of the entrance. That was a very good suggestion from Gretchen (thanks!). All we lost was a little space in the hall closet.



Here is a good shot of the toilet room. You can see the frame for the pocket door on the left.


The space for the one medicine cabinet in the wall and the bracing in the walls for the towel bar.


Master bathroom. This is the tub deck for the 5' soaker we picked. (http://bit.ly/dgvpie) It is not a huge tub, but pretty deep and with a very high drain to allow for a deep bath. It is also high enough to see out the window into the back yard (without being high enough to be seen).


Here is the shower stall to the back corner of the tub. This will be all tile with an all glass enclosure.


Another shot of the tub deck and drain.


This is the HVAC unit before they installed it (more shots in its final location in a little bit)


This is the framing around the larger window opening in the kitchen. The window there will be taken out, a larger hole cut int he wall, new structural steel lintel installed and a wider window put in set toward the outside of the opening to leave a deep ledge space.


Plumbing in the butler's pantry. This will be where the sink, wine fridge, and (my favorite) water carbonator/chiller will go.


Other side of the pantry. The thing at the top is the air return for the first floor. The HVAC guy, Erik and Hyo came up with the plan to hide it up above the pantry cabinet so we won't need to have a big metal grate on the wall somewhere on the first floor. Pretty good idea.


Plumbing run in the wall leading into what will be the new dining room. The rain and previous owners caused some damage to the floor in here that was so bad it needed to be torn out. Since we are reflooring the entire upstairs to match up the grain, level and color we have extra flooring to patch this area.


This is the run in the ceiling to the master bath. The line is 3/4" until the split between the tub and shower where it is 1/2". That should provide plenty of pressure tot he two supplies.


Down in the basement, the HVAC is all in as we saw in earlier posts, but there were a few things that I wanted to record before they closed up the walls. This is the supply run through the old window opening in the half bath. You can also see that the wall has been furred out form the existing exterior wall.


They put in the short wall in the peninsula for the basement kitchen. This will contain the drain and supply for the sink and dishwasher.


Here is another view of the supply running from the old house.


On the other side of the supply is the run for the return.


Now way up stairs into the attic - Here is the installed HVAC unit that was wrapped in the old master bedroom earlier in place in the attic.


The black line is the run to the condenser outside. The silver boxes are the supplies and returns for the upstairs.


On the other side of the attic. More runs and returns. As you can see, this ate up quite a bit of space int eh attic for storage. Luckily, the new section of the house has plenty of new space. It isn't quite as tall, but wider and longer. Also, I will build a small deck up here to go over the lines to make the space on top usable for storage.

OK, so next time should be tubs, and finished plumbing, electrical and HVAC and maybe even some doors and windows. Stay tuned!