Of Pipes And Plywood
Once the underfloor was done, the plumber came in with his crew and spent about a week working on the ground-floor plumbing: one kitchen sink, one bathroom sink, one shower, one toilet, one stove gas line and one fireplace gas line (which, oddly, we are unlikely to use), plus a whole bunch of drain lines.
Our downstairs bathroom. Isn't it lovely?
Francisco, the plumber, took me around to show me what he did, but I must've been dazzled by the shiny copper piping because I don't remember much. Everything seemed to be in the right places, though, and it must've made a good impression with the city inspector because he told Francisco and Charlie that they did a great job!
I thought the very tall pipe was a drain for the second story, baffling as there isn't anything that needs pipes directly above this bathroom. Francisco told me however, that it's a toilet vent and after something or other happened (to do with the inspection, I believe), it would be taken down.
Charlie, hard at work in his on-site "office".
Here at Ikea, we flat-pack your house and let you assemble it yourselves. This saves us on shipping costs and lets us pass that savings on to you!
Charlie's guys came back and went to work sheeting the floor, which is to say, covering it with a very particular kind of plywood with grooves to connect it together.
This had the effect of making the "house" look like a large stage.
Standing at the front door, looking across the house.
Purple nails. I don't know why.
This is the view standing at the kitchen sink.
Standing in the living room, looking out the bay window.
Charlie and Geraldo, his foreman, measuring for the fireplace. It has to fit between the two large bolts that are sticking up, which are points where the house is bolted to the foundation. There is exactly enough room for the fireplace we'd picked out. Hooray!
The ceilings on the ground floor will be 9 feet tall. Here, Charlie is showing me how tall that is on one of the main support beams of the house.
The sheeting only took about 2 days (and only that long because they ran out of two of some special kind of clip and had to wait until the next day to get more clips) which was good, because they finished just in time to cover the whole thing with plastic before a weekend of rain!
Next time: Our project starts to resemble a house!
Our downstairs bathroom. Isn't it lovely?
Francisco, the plumber, took me around to show me what he did, but I must've been dazzled by the shiny copper piping because I don't remember much. Everything seemed to be in the right places, though, and it must've made a good impression with the city inspector because he told Francisco and Charlie that they did a great job!
I thought the very tall pipe was a drain for the second story, baffling as there isn't anything that needs pipes directly above this bathroom. Francisco told me however, that it's a toilet vent and after something or other happened (to do with the inspection, I believe), it would be taken down.
Charlie, hard at work in his on-site "office".
Here at Ikea, we flat-pack your house and let you assemble it yourselves. This saves us on shipping costs and lets us pass that savings on to you!
Charlie's guys came back and went to work sheeting the floor, which is to say, covering it with a very particular kind of plywood with grooves to connect it together.
This had the effect of making the "house" look like a large stage.
Standing at the front door, looking across the house.
Purple nails. I don't know why.
This is the view standing at the kitchen sink.
Standing in the living room, looking out the bay window.
Charlie and Geraldo, his foreman, measuring for the fireplace. It has to fit between the two large bolts that are sticking up, which are points where the house is bolted to the foundation. There is exactly enough room for the fireplace we'd picked out. Hooray!
The ceilings on the ground floor will be 9 feet tall. Here, Charlie is showing me how tall that is on one of the main support beams of the house.
The sheeting only took about 2 days (and only that long because they ran out of two of some special kind of clip and had to wait until the next day to get more clips) which was good, because they finished just in time to cover the whole thing with plastic before a weekend of rain!
Next time: Our project starts to resemble a house!
posted by Tanya Klowden at 9:00 PM
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