We ended up working Thurs and Friday evening of this week and all day Saturday, Sept 22. We got a lot accomplished!
Months ago we dug a different trench. That trench has all of our new plumbing from the street to the kids bedroom that is finished. This weekend plans was to extend that plumbing from the kids room to where it needs to be; the future kids bath and laundy room. So out came the wet saw and Kory cut. One of the kids followed behind with the wet vac sucking up all the water mess. Then out came the sledge and all that cement was broked up. We then loaded it into a wheel barrell and it was all taken outside. Everyone had a job to help these past few days.
It went all the way from the bedroom, through the hall, into the laundry room up to the farthest wall.
We glued the pipe together, pulled the water line and re burried it.
I had nice little piles of dirt that too quickly got tracked all over the house!
While Kory and I were working on the plumbing Hunter was up in the attic suctioning out the old insulation. I was really, really hoping that Saturday would be the last day of that. But after filling 3 bags full we ran out of bags and weren't quite done. While he was suctioning my brother Matt came by to help. I had him go help Kory and then the the rest of us tore down sheet rock and hauled it outside. When Hunter couldn't suction anymore he went truss by truss taking out all the nails.
Months ago when we took out the old black fireplace it left a huge hole in the ceiling. Kory hung a piece of sheeting to cover up that hole. We took that down and wanted to keep it since it was basically brand new. Kylie and Emily had the job of scraping off the foam that we had used to help seal it with.
There were a few 2x4s that we also took out that we'd like to re-use. So Maddie and Brayden took out the old nails.
The bathroom sink was in the way of our new plumbing so out it came. It's going to be interesting once again in the next few days while we get use to our "new" norm. Not sure I like the idea of everyone brushing their teeth in my kitchen sink!
Brayden took a turn at helping us sweep up all the sheetrock mess.
When the sheetrock and insulation was removed from the ceiling we could easily see where "one" of the electrical fires took place. Crazy!
So happy knowing the plumbing for the new bathroom is about done. We ran out time to plumb for the washer, sink and drain in the new laundry room. We are still trying to decide if we want to remove all the cement so we can slope the floor a little bit just in case the washer ever leaks or if we'll just build them up and put them in a large pan for that future leak. We'll have to decide soon!
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