After replacing the oil furnace with a high efficiency gas and continued work on restoring old wood window sashes, not to mention gardening, and interior painting, and sealing the torch down on the roof, and other stuff I can't remember but will probably haunt my dreams when I am old... we decided to start the task of plumbing. Everything. Why did we chose plumbing over all the other priorities??? Because Drew told me to.
Drew. Part-time personal injury attorney, part-time dad, and old friend going back to fifth grade, somehow built up some pretty amazing home renovation skills over the years. This includes plumbing. He offered to teach me how to plumb my house and bring with him a bunch of extra stuff laying around from his previous projects. Free help + free materials = OK.
So a few weeks ago we began putting in a "ghost" system, meaning a totally new system running parallel with the current system. The idea is to get as much in as possible before turning off the water to the old system and scrambling to complete the new so water can be turned back on. Or at least, I think.
So here was my first lesson in soldering copper:
While Drew patiently waits for another free weekend day to come back over, he graciously tasked me with several prep jobs for our next work day. This included mostly cleanup of old insulation in nasty dirty spaces that we'll need to get to next time (waiting for the lab results to tell me whether it's asbestos). It also included removing the plaster and lathe from the wall in the bathroom closet behind the tub.
It sure was interesting taking the stuff out. I wonder how that's going to get put back together. Drew?
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