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Today's mission was set the 2HP Liberty grinder pump package. I had run that line out earlier, and a 2" vent. The inspector thought it did not need a vent, looking at the submittals but I knew better and brought one out. Sausage grinder. Wet vent with Wye and 45. There is a 6" riser on...

Two mornings ago junior coyote showed up like he was getting paid. He hits his mark: " send the check to my agent" It has only been 5 weeks and the baby quail are growing fast too. I wheeled in and spotted them and shut the car off.

All of this is made possible by this OTHER Washer dryer we plumbed yesterday in the basement. It can be a big heavy duty for my wife's quilting, etc. that bathroom is a little different than pictured. My draftsman guy has snap ins and the vanity will be a corner unit there I think, and the...

plumber is in the hizzy fo shizzy. That is the kitchen drain coming across to the equipment room wall. Vanity plumbing in that bathroom, and lads? We left it set up for an easy urinal installation in the equipment room. Ladies, stay out of the equipment room if you are disgusted by a urinal...

yes it has been a pain in the ass. My cost to get power to the door? 17.7K That is with me doing 450' of primary trenching and digging for a fuse ped and the transformer ped. The engineer, the field foreman and I are walking that job this morning.

cool story bro. Guy named Ufer came up with it. Now you must put one in if you can. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufer_ground Boomer is correct about remoteness. 1 mile door to door from Safeway. 1.3 miles to Costco, 1.4 to Home Depot next door to each other. I am getting a cargo E-bike to go...

I had laid out all this stuff with the wall stud layout from the perimeter string line. The only stud off schedule is next to the ufer. I bent it up too far or not enough. Whatever. I pre-painted 3/4 CDX and I'm lining the whole equipment room so I can hang gear anywhere I want. Now that the...

Archaeology week. I had subgraded all the plumbing and conduit for a smooth finish. I was done rolling scaffolding around and it was time to dig it up. The tub box was easy to find and I located the rest of the bathroom group with tape measure and sledgehammer. Equipment room wall with chock...

we poured the last of the retaining walls and also the vault/niche for the battery. that will get a reinforced 4" EPS lid and door, and you can step on it from the upper level. I will finish it inside and out with the Dryvit stucco to match the basement. I have a UL 9540 listed battery but I...

I brought my own lines in from the west, 500' up the driveway. I installed a pair because of reasons. When the excavator gets back on site I will dig up the water main and tap it and get that hooked up. Here comes one of the 500' rolls of poly down the hill, along with 1.25" Sch 40 PVC conduit...

just more shit on the wall. Toss more shit, see what schticks.

Ready for north retaining wall and battery vault. I am using the leftover ICF blocks to form a niche in the retaining wall to house the battery(s). The battery is UL9540 listed but I don't care. I am not putting the equivalent of a few quarts of gasoline in my basement. I spoke with the PUD...

I had an encounter with one. It was dragging a fly up a chair leg when I spotted it. Then it dropped the fly. I speared the fly with a pin and offered it to the spider. It absolutely looked at me, looked at the fly, and took it and went on it's way. They have very good vision.

It believes it does.

That side sewer is 12' below finish floor and was holding everything up. Today we finalized the loops into the basement using fernco's to seal them to the sleeves. Drain pipe tied into footing drain and rocked. So we could backfill the lower retaining wall and form up for the upper one. It...