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The plumber was back out on Monday. He tweaked the pipes in Brittany's closet to hook up to the water heater, which is mounted on the west wall, outside her room. If it looks funky, it is. It's a demand water heater. It doesn't have a tank, but instead heats the water as it flows through the pipes. It senses when there is a demand for hot water, and fires up the burners at that time. The brand name is Rinnai. This bad boy will deliver over six gallons of hot water per minute. We can have both showers, the dishwasher, and the washing machine running at the same time. |
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The plumber and electricians have been giving this poor wall "what for" during the past week. Those bricks are pretty messed up. In addition to electricity in the kitchen, we also have water, now. |
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| This is the trench from the power pole to the
house. Our electric, phone, and cable will all be happily buried out of
sight in this 36" deep trench.
Chris dug the trench, and was very disappointed that I didn't have the camera with me while he was running the trencher. He wanted a cool action shot of himself running heavy equipment. |
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It's Tuesday, and Chris and Ernie are working on the framing for the patio. They had planned on pouring concrete right up to the foundation. I asked them to leave dirt in that area so I can put in some plants and vines and stuff. |
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Here's a shot looking the other way of where the footings for the carport roof will be. I need to get a surveyor in to make sure that we're three feet from the property line, otherwise, the carport will go up, then it'll come down. |
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Leisa and I were wandering around Fairview Place, a historic district immediately north of Story, and happened upon an open house. We wandered in to look around. We weren't very impressed by the house, but we did like the glass block in the closet that provided light. We asked Mark to put one in ours. |
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After Chris and Ernie got done with the concrete forms,
Sonny began working on the plumbing to the barbeque island. I thought the
work looked pretty good, but the building inspector, Don, didn't. More
about that in Week Twenty Three!
We now have planter areas next to the foundation. |
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These are all of the vent and drain pipes under the floor
and in the roof framing. My brain would hurt if I did this for a living
and had to keep track of where everything went.
And if you think you've seen this before, you probably have! |
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We're adding an alarm system. The system is wireless, but
the keypads have to connect to the control panel by wires. The guy from
the alarm company came out Friday morning and ran wires to the panel
location.
He also wired the windows so they're fully protected. The windows are double-hung, which means you can slide the bottom window up, or the top window down. You can't put two transmitters on the window, so they wired two contacts to one transmitter, which will protect the house no matter which window moves. All this wiring had to be done prior to the installation of drywall, which may happen sometime around Flag Day. Leisa and I stopped by the house over the weekend to check the progress, as well as pick up the mail. We noticed we'd been red tagged, again. The last time the inspector was out, we got red tagged because our plans were water damaged. Mark called Bob and got a new set. Mark left the new set of plans for the building inspector. He didn't like them, and wanted to see the copy that was stamped by the city. L'idiot! |
| Leisa and I took Thursday off, and met with a
listing agent from Russell Shaw's real estate group. We listed her house
for sale. Russell's average sale time is only twenty three days. The
listing agent said that the average time on market in this neighborhood is
about fifty days. Assuming all goes well, we should be closing on this
place about the same time that we're moving into the new place.
Click here to get some specs on the house. (Coming Wednesday Evening) Thursday's optimism over a move-in date, however, was soon shot to heck by Don, the building inspector. |
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The Justin ReportJustin started his job at Papa John's. He attended a training class during the week, then his first shift was Friday evening from 4 to 8. He had to prepare for work by not going to school all week. He enjoyed working, and is looking forward to his next shift, which isn't until Wednesday.
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 Fig. A. "Would you like to add Cheesy Bread to that for only a dollar more?" |
