PLUMBING INSTALLED NEW HOUSE UPDATE

More technical stuff that might be boring for some, but hey, it's progress!  They have completed the plumbing.

We've taken extensive pictures of every single wall so that we know for the future when we need to hammer a nail into a wall, where NOT to do it, ha.  Example above, this is the wall in the living room where we know we will put our bar cabinet/credenza.  We will want to hang some pictures above it.  With the help of photos and a stud finder, we will know where not to put them!

Here are some pipe running through the attic.  PVC pipes are drain lines for various systems.

Kitchen sink/dishwasher area.  By the way, all pipes on outside walls are insulated (the black covering) and of course all exterior walls are fully insulated as well, so the pipes should be very safe.

This is the laundry room, the pipes here are for the stack washer/dryer.  The insulated pipe you see on the right side is going to an outside faucet.

This is the shower.  It's six feet wide and nine feet tall.  It will have a bench across the right side and the shower head and handheld piece are there on the left side.  The blue covered pipe you can see sticking down from above is the rain shower head.  There will be a grab bar on the back wall under the window.

They still have to use PVC for drains and septic lines of course.  This is a view of the master bathroom double vanity.  1st Man will be on the left, 2nd Man on the right, ha.

And they even have the tub in for the guest bath!

The line for the fridge in the kitchen (ice maker/water).

Here is the pot filler above the stove.

Insulated pipes, again, exterior walls and then it will be insulated over it all for further protection.

Here's the utility sink area in the garage.  The white PVC is the septic drain and black ones are the hot and cold PEX pipes and they are insulated since they are on an exterior wall.

By the way, all the piping for water lines is PEX...the UPONOR AquaPEX version.

It is a newer version of PEX that has a built in thermal memory so it will move and expand as needed (for example, in a freeze) and return to its original size and shape.  Like this area above, IF those froze, they could expand and even move a bit as needed and then once they thawed, they would return to this same curved position.  Because the are so flexible, they have very few connections so less points of failure.

Fingers will be crossed during every freeze, ha.

This week we get the plumbing inspected by a third party inspector and they are doing the electrical rough in.  Then there will be painting and the shingles!

Then the exterior is more or less finished and the behind the walls stuff will be done.