A Little Progress

The plumber came out and did the first round of plumbing stuff on June 26th.  This was Day 6 of actual work days..  We had to decide where we wanted the on demand water heater.  Initially the plans were for one in the bathroom and one under the kitchen sink.  But, I wanted hot water for the washing machine in the utility room.  I rarely use hot water, but I wanted the option.  So, it was decided to put a single, larger unit in the utility room.

The plumbing inspection was done on the 27th and we passed.  Brian came out and did find that the plumber was off by 2" (too short) for the vent pipe for the toilet.  He thinks it will still be fine as it will be running up a load bearing wall and our load bearing interior walls will be framed with 2x6's.

The close up plumbing stuff you see, the forefront of the picture, is the bathroom.

And, then things just sort of sat.  I was wondering why, but trying to be patient.  I finally emailed and was told he was waiting for the bamboo.  I said we don't need the bamboo until we are putting the bale walls up.  Well, he had thought to use the bamboo in the same way that rebar used to be used under the old codes - embed one end into the concrete and stab your first course or two of bales down into the bamboo.  We didn't feel that necessary and possibly even a bad idea.  We talked about it and in the end we all agreed to not do the embedded bamboo.  So, they could get going again, but by then it was July 3rd.  They finished the footings rebar and then we just had to wait for the footings inspection.

The footings inspection happened on July 9th.  We live in a rural area.  There are no inspectors here in our county.  They come from a small city 2 hrs away twice/week to our county.  So, you have to sort of plan ahead and get on their schedule or you might have to wait a while.

The earliest concrete pour he could schedule (with a morning appt as it is hot here) is for July 15th.  So, that is where we are sitting.  The footings pour will occur this coming Monday morning and Brian and his helper, Robin, will begin prepping the pad for the slab pour.  There will be another inspection, which Brian will get scheduled for probably on July 23rd. The slab pour is scheduled for a nice and early 7am either on July 25th or 26th.  I think once that slab is down, things will move along a bit faster.  I feel like we've been sitting around with nothing happening since June 26th, so I'm feeling a bit impatient.  Especially as the first week saw so much get done so quickly.