I took Monday and Tuesday off of office work and spent them working up at the Haus, with Katie in tow. Made significant progress on the drainage plumbing: All the drains from fixtures are now run in to the basement and *almost* tied in to the main stack that hooks to the septic system.
With Katie's help I glued and connected all the pipes from the upper floor fixtures through the main floor wall and down in to the basement.
This shows the upper floor pipes coming through the basement ceiling above the foundation top plate and then tying together so that they run to the septic system. There was one moment of PANICK during the glue-up trying to connect the middle pipe into the horizontal run. Some quick thinking and cutting and gluing got it resolved. It's very difficult when there's not a lot of play between the pipes to connect a fixture in to pipes coming from orthoganal directions.
I hooked up the drain from the sink (coming from the right) to the toilet coming from the top-left. But the long elbow at the end routing it all to the left was another panick event. I was unable to successfully complete the first attempt to glue it. I wasn't able to move the 3" pipe over to the joist far enough to glue the 90-degree elbow in. So I abandoned it, thought about it over night, and was able to make some adjustments the next day to get it in.
Standing on a ladder, drilling through joists above your head with a beastly 3" hole saw at the end of an 11.0 amp drill that wants to rip your arms off and crush your fingers results in A LOT of sawdust. My sawdust placement skills are not very good as evidenced by the picture above.
The implement of my torture - my latest tool purchase. (I will promptly sell it after the project is done.)
My best guess is that it will take about 2 more full days (maybe 3) to finish up the ABS plumbing. Then I'll need to pressure test it...
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