Saturday, May 15, 2004
I bought some plywood for the sub-basement wall forms. The stuff is so expensive that I shopped around and found the best price at a place that sells donated used bulding materials. They also sell new stuff that is forested in ways that is friendlier to the environment. Their plywood was cheaper then other places. I scavanged some more 2x4's as well.
I worked on re-routing the plumbing from the well. I only have 1 outdoor spigot coming out of the well head, but the pipe runs right through the area where the south 'return' wall would be. The pipe is soft copper, so I can bend it a bit. I cut it off and bent it upwards so that it would come out of the top of the new wall. Like the North wall, it this ever leaks it will leak right inside the cement wall. This could be a bad thing. After I bent it up and got it high enough so that it would clear the new wall height, I used some couplers and transferred this into 3/4" pvc. I ran the pvc all the way back to the well head and connected it there. I took the opportunity to add some junctions for future expansion along the way.
Upon testing it for leaks, one of the junctions was leaking a bit. The threaded plug was not tight, so I turned it a bit more, and more, and more and then SNAP - water all over me. I broke the threads on the plug.
Now I have to cut a whole section out and do it again.
In other areas, Rob has not been here yet to measure trusses. He tells me that it will take 3 weeks to get them in. That means I have to have my basement finished about 3 weeks after the trusses are ordered.
Also, our lawn tractor died (blown engine), then our pressure washer died, and a car needed brakes. My money is disappearing and we haven't even started yet....
I worked on re-routing the plumbing from the well. I only have 1 outdoor spigot coming out of the well head, but the pipe runs right through the area where the south 'return' wall would be. The pipe is soft copper, so I can bend it a bit. I cut it off and bent it upwards so that it would come out of the top of the new wall. Like the North wall, it this ever leaks it will leak right inside the cement wall. This could be a bad thing. After I bent it up and got it high enough so that it would clear the new wall height, I used some couplers and transferred this into 3/4" pvc. I ran the pvc all the way back to the well head and connected it there. I took the opportunity to add some junctions for future expansion along the way.
Upon testing it for leaks, one of the junctions was leaking a bit. The threaded plug was not tight, so I turned it a bit more, and more, and more and then SNAP - water all over me. I broke the threads on the plug.
Now I have to cut a whole section out and do it again.
In other areas, Rob has not been here yet to measure trusses. He tells me that it will take 3 weeks to get them in. That means I have to have my basement finished about 3 weeks after the trusses are ordered.
Also, our lawn tractor died (blown engine), then our pressure washer died, and a car needed brakes. My money is disappearing and we haven't even started yet....
