Mid-week special - fireplace, siding measurements, & more plumbing

I met the fireplace installers on Wednesday morning. They extended the chimney an 2 more feet above the roof and added a metal plate around the chimney where it goes through the underside of the roof to trim it out and improve appearance. They also installed the final faceplate on the fireplace and made sure it was working properly.

Also, the chimney cap was bent to one side because of the snow load on it over the winter -- didn't even last the first season. They bent it back, but acknowledged they'll need to come up with a more durable solution before next winter.

That's a LONG way up. The 40' ladder is fully extended.

If you look carefully, you can see the metal bracket around the chimney under the eve.

Faceplate installed with fire underway. I kept it going for about 4 hours. Even without the thermostat and fan hookup, it throws off some serious heat.

While the fireplace workers were there, I took the time to get more official measurements on the exterior of each side of the Haus as I plan for flashing and siding. The pictures below show my chicken-scratch measurements along with a picture of the corresponding face of the Haus.

 

South side (front)

West side

 

North side

 

East side

I spent the remainder of the afternoon in the basement drilling holes for the plumbing stack for the upstairs drain lines to meet up and flow to the septic system. I ended up outrunning the Milwaukee holehog's ability to charge the batteries, so I took a break once and then called it a day about 4:30 pm.

The plumbing runs from upstairs will meet up in this horiztonal (1/4" slope per foot) 3" pipe and meet up with the vertical feed to the septic system.

The hole carcasses on the basement floor.

As I walked around the Haus taking measurements, I noticed a few interesting "issues" as shown below.

There was a mosquito pond in the back area being fed by our miniature glacier, so I dug a trench to drain it.

This is an *extremely* hardy sprout of some kind coming up right at the edge of the East foundation wall.  I could not pull it out, so I clipped it (but felt a little guilty as I did so.)