Plumbing

The plumbers arrived this morning and I worked with them all day. It was past 19:00 when they finally left. I was beat. They made fast work, plumbing everything except for the kitchen and for the garage bathroom. We would've gotten that done, but it was taking so long to cut a hole through the footing for the sewer line.

The original sewer line hole that Terra-Dome provided us was in the wrong location from where I had specified, and it was way too low to allow for proper flow from the toilet. So rather than dig through the rock for a sump pump, we chose to bore a hole through the footing to provide for the proper drainage without the need of a sump pump.

Even with the giant hole saw machine that they rented, they were only able to cut about halfway through the footing and then there was just too much friction on the sides to allow it to cut further. We drilled through several times from both sides with drill bits, and hope to finish tomorrow morning.

One change order (already) is that Rachel wants a sink out on the patio, so we need to get hot and cold water back there, and plus she wants hot and cold water for a hot tub (some day). I mentioned it to the lead plumber late in the day and suggested that if we could just branch off the hot and cold in the garage, that there's a place in the footing that I provided to allow them out to the patio. He didn't seem to think this would be a problem.

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I was a bit embarassed that we had so much trouble with the garage sewer drain issues. It seems like everything we do isn't just off the shelf. We seem to be "out of the box" and it always seems to take extra time or extra money or both.