Wall mounted faucets plus bits and bobs

Today we finished the final bits and bobs of plumbing and electrical rough-in.

I mounted the rough-ins for the wall-mounted facuets. These have been sitting in our garage for over 2 years. I ordered them only a few weeks after we started building.  Unfortunately, the rough-in piece that's screwed to the wall has some rather fragile copper tubes sticking out from it. To protect the tubing, I put the faucet body and handles on -- I'll remove them to prevent scratches when we install wall board.

One in the main floor toilet room.

Two on the wall in the upstairs shared bathroom.

One in the master toilet room.

I also soldered the expansion pex fittings in each of the shower rough-ins, but I ran out of brass screws to mount them. Monday.

Katie mounted the ceiling fan rough-in boxes in the master bedroom...

...and in the bunkroom.

After some research and consultation this week, Katie also mounted the sconce boxes in the family room and in the downstairs, and a few miscellaneous power boxes in several rooms.

I purchased a kitchen faucet from Amazon that I've been eyeballing for KnArrow Haus.

This is a deck-mounted proxy for the wall-mounted model I bought-then-sold a few months ago.

On Monday we will commence drilling holes and running pex tubing through the walls. 

Plumbing rough-in begins, electrical continues

While Katie did some final tweaking on the electrical box rough-ins in the upstairs bedrooms, including the smoke detector boxes, I started in on the water supply plumbing roughins. The grand strategy in all this is to get all the locations fixed so that we know where to drill all the holes.  (I purchased all the supplies and tools for expansion PEX over the Christmas holiday.)

Downstairs bathroom sink

Downstairs bathroom toilet

Basement wet bar sink

Laundry room washer shutoff and drain

Main level toilet room

I'm take the week of July 4th off work to drill holes and run PEX and wires. 

Can Light Extravaganza

We contined the electrical rough-in by installing can lights in the mud room, great room (on Saturday), and basement (on Monday).

After mid-week Youtube research, Katie used fishing wire strung across the ceiling to help line-up each can on center.  We also moved a few switch boxes to better locations and placed a few more on Saturday before we ran out of steam at close to 8 pm.

First row of can lights that will be above the kitchen counter. 

Plan showing the planned placement for can lights from the top.

Because the floor joists are placed 12 inches on-center, we had to trim the mounting brackets on the cans because they're designed for beams 16 inches on-center.

Panarama of the day's work. 

The lights will be switched in two zones: One zone over the kitchen area. The other zone over the living area. And a ceiling fan in the middle of the two zones.

Although not clear from the picture, I completed roughing in all the switch and power boxes ont the kitchen wall.  In order to do so, we had to finalize the plan for wall cabinets, appliances, and shelves.

Kitchen plan. 

The island is intended to be on rollers so that it can be easily moved (and perhaps raised and lowered, as well...). I will mount pull-down power sockets in the ceiling to provide power to the island.

And here are the results of Katie's first solo workday at KnArrow Haus installing can lights in the basement. (So proud!)

Can lights *at* the North end of the basement.

View of can lights *from* North end of basement.

Beginning of Blue Boxes

I started installing the electrical roughin boxes today. So gratifying to finally be working on the interior after spending most of 2018 on the exterior.

Most of the boxes are installed in the basement and mudroom. And I made a dent in the kitchen, main floor, and upstairs.  I need to lock down our kitchen plan before I can located the rest of the boxes along the kitchen wall. Intsalling the power boxes made it painfully apparent that we need to clear all the cruft away from the walls.

I also finished up the railing bars on the back deck and front porch. I've been planning to put stainless steel cable between the posts, but I'm starting to rethink that, to at least get something up that's not unsightly, passes code, and is a lot less effort.

9 hour day, arriving at 10 am and departing at 7 pm. My feet hurt.

During the week I filed a letter with the county for "Alternate Means and Methods" so that I can run one of my vent plumbing stacks out the wall and terminate it on the wall, 10 feet below the soffit instead of running it through the roof.  The county uses the 2015 International Plumbing Code (IPC), which allows for the use of air admittance valves (often refered to as Studor Vents), but only if one vent stack vents to the outside. Crossing my fingers.  Here's the isometric drawing of the plumbing system that I had to do as part of the letter.