Unfinished Projects

To kick things off for this post here is a before and after picture of our crawl space. Someone built a bomb proof little room around 90% of the plumbing. It had double layers of plastic underneath the plywood and insulation in the floor, walls, and ceiling. All that sounds great at first except when the water comes from inside (pipes breaking) the water has nowhere to go. Underneath this little room was an extremely large culture of fluffy white mold. It looked like a cotton candy machine escaped and was stock piling a private stash! Anyway, it is gone now as you can see in the second picture.

Although the moldiness is gone there is still a lot of other leftovers piled in the crawl-space. At some point they need to be gone but for now there are more pressing projects.

The water pipes are still a tangled mess but there is now a mostly finished frame supporting the manifold. The part that is finished is critical to continuing plumbing projects but the rest will have to wait a while.

With that finished we were able to plumb the supply water to the washing machine but the drain is still on the other side of the room which presents a problem. Luckily we have garden hoses that are no longer needed to fill buckets to haul to the toilet.

Next, the dryer. The plug is wired and mounted but the vent hose has nowhere to go. We are planning on having stackables in the future and we are uncertain about the best location for the vent. This house has enough random large holes in the walls for now so we want to be very certain it's in the right place. It's a little red-neck but the window is a relatively convenient alternative.

Finally the wood stove. In the past this poor stove must have had a bad injury that required surgery. It appears to have a prosthetic door. It is a fine replacement for the original except the surgeon never got a chance to replace it's belly button (the door vent). With a spare part from the sad little stove that was in our master bedroom and a little bit of elbow grease the stove now has a functional vent. The action is not that great but it's at least as good as a belly button.