Snow and Plumbing.

That is my dodge pickup. It's a good thing she's a 1 ton with duals, because she is packing quite a jag.

The house did'nt fall down. Believe it or not, the solar panel side is pretty clean.

I finally got the main stack out the roof. Most of the drainage plumbing is done. There is just a little more where the fixtures connect to it all. It's 4" abs pipe where it goes through the roof and it is 4" abs where it goes under the basement floor and out to the septic tank, but it is 3" in between. Permit guy wanted 4" going out the roof for frost build up purposes. There is a fair bit of 3 " from the basement to the roof. It does'nt just go staight up. It winds around the tub on the main floor. All the drains and vents connect into the 3" somewhere on it's way up.

We had a few pretty mild days before it all got cold again. It was just enough to clean off the roof, and it took an extra couple of days for the ladder to self clean, then I got up there and flanged up my main stack where it comes out the roof. The next day it started to dump a bunch of snow again. Even the garage roof finally dumped a day or 2 after the house. You would'nt want to be standing under either one when it all takes place. I had to use the backhoe to open up a trail to get into the garage man door.

Anyway. I wrote a rather large thing in my word pad on my thoughts and changes of the heating system, then thought I would simply copy and paste it into this blog. As usual, I learn the hard way that maybe it is'nt quite that simple huh. I wonder, why not? Maybe there is a way, but I'll probably spend the night trying to figure it all out, so maybe I'll put it in later. Maybe it was meant to be. lol. Does anyone know if there is some simple thing I can do, I would really hate it if I have to print it out and retype it.

Not much got accomplished since the last post. I have been picking away a little at a time. I bought my electrical permit a little while ago. Sounds like fun to get started on all that. Usually there is 2 months or so in the spring where we are pretty slow at work. If I have to spend another winter in my little shack, no...... surely that won't happen. Anyone wanna place some bets?


 

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