Plumbing

Once again it has been way too long since I added anything to this blog. Luckily, we have not been idle and there is much to talk about. We have recently finished and passed our inspection on what I refer to as the "Holy Grail" of house remodeling... Plumbing. Plumbing...hmm...an odd choice maybe. However, I understand and can whole heartily endorse the cost of a plumber. Personally, I think it has been the most challenging and at sometimes the dirtiest job we have had to do. At the end of the installation, we replaced all of the plumbing on the west end of the house; drain pipes and supply pipes. We used copper for all of the supply lines. To quote a favorite movie "Copper...it cost's money because it saves money". I hope this is true. Although we replaced our plumbing in Austin with the new fandangled plastic piping, we had second thoughts about doing it for this house. For the DWV piping, we used ABS. If I had unlimited resources, I would have had someone else do it and used cast iron. ABS is pretty easy to work with, but it is noisy as hell. New photos have been added to the blog to show some of the work.