Hal has been busy a few days now. Occasionally he needs my help to pull wire or play gopher but mostly it's a one person show. He has been installing copper pipe for the cold water feeds to both kitchen sinks and red PEX for hot water and blue PEX for cold water everywhere else. The reason for the copper rather than PEX everywhere are the possible chemical leaching into water from PEX that some claim can happen (like the state of CA which has banned PEX altogether). We usually only get drinking water for tea coffee, cooking, etc out of the cold tap in the kitchen anyway, so why not play it safe. So here are a few pics of the piping.
We also ran the feeder line to the location of the subpanel which will be in the laundry room. The black cable hangs a left where the coil sits in this photo and I secured it using plastic holders screwed into the joists. The sub panel will be feeding the bedrooms and laundry and bathrooms, while the main panel in the utility room feeds it and the rest of the house and garage.
After these floor runs are finished we will probably pause the rough plumbing and electrical work as the rest would need to be inside interior walls which can't go in till we put those up. Have to have a floor first and that will be more fun once we put up the large garage doors We'll be able to use heat then). we just have to figure out how to build those first.
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