Whew !!! Plumbing, plumbing, plumbing

It has been along time but I did enjoy the disconnection from the wired world. I also used the lack of distraction that the internet usually offers me to accomplish a fair amount of work. It still feels like there is a long way to go but we have certainly made a dent in the place. I will split some of the next posts up and they may not be in perfect chronological order but who cares?

I don't even know where to start. My friend Tom came down a couple of weekends for one night each time and gave me the crash course on plumbing. The building has a whole bunch of copper drain pipes and many of them were corroded right through. As such we replaced them with the standard ABS which I am becoming quite proficient with. I still have a good 20 foot run to do but that will take care of a bunch of it. During Tom's two visits we:

- Installed a toilet (for my training purposes)
- Installed new shutoff valves at every fixture in the place (think $300~ on shutoff valves)
- Installed a new water softener
- Replaced about 15 'Y' sections and 20 misc feet of copper drain pipe
- Replaced faucets, fixed leaks yada yada yada

a small amount of the 15 or so truckloads we took to the dump

So, as an example of a before and after shot of some of my plumbing handiwork here are some bathroom shots. I reused the vanity for the time being as 6 toilets, 5 bathroom sinks and 4 bar sinks plus the water softener didn't come cheap :)

Yummy hard water stains on the left.....

Beautiful and clean toilet and sink with the stainless supply lines to meet all health codes







As of tonight, I have installed 4 of the 6 toilets. I still have to install the sink into the womens washroom and that will be an episode to itself and a toilet, urinal and the sink into the mens.

I will have a whole story on the private bathroom which has been another project I have been working on over the last two weeks but the toilet and sink and new vanity still need to go into there and 4 sinks behind the bar :(

It used to feel never ending but at least I can see the end now... at least of the plumbing!!!