Finally Drywall...

It is a big step to get to drywall.  Endless guessing on fixture and wire locations have been eating up a lot of time.  No more thinking about it now since it is all covered up.  I did leave access in the closet ceilings and along the center beam to get to almost any joist bay if I need to run additional wires in the future.  A single guy was hanging 12' sheets with his handy lift...of course he still had to lift the 82# sheets onto the machine.  The drywall deliverers seemed to have no trouble carrying the double sheets down into the basement.  I guess you get used to carrying 82# all day.  Of course it did shrink the space, but it made it a lot brighter (on this sunny day) so it overall is fine for a low ceiling (7') basement.

Framing Finishing

Scope Creep...A new water line

It all started with the old water line sticking out too far into the wall space an not wanting to have to box around all of the fittings with the drywall. I should probably move all that stuff so that it resides in the stud bay of the wall. While I am at it, I should just replace the water line since it is probably 50-100 years old and I know 2 other people in Ballard who's iron lines have failed catastrophically in the past few years.

The finished new line connection with a new pressure regulator and drain valve.

Here is what lives in an old iron water pipe...doesn't look too good does it?

The 22' long and 2' deep trench took about 2 hours to dig and 1/2 hour to backfill.

22' of 3/4" copper is now $104 these days. Poly line is now generally used for this and it would have cost $5, but it failed the smell test (it stuck like chemicals and I did not want to drink out of it). It is really hard to tighten 3/4" NPT fitting in the bottom of a 30" deep hole.

Old rusty iron line on right and new copper line on left.

My nemesis flare fitting supplied by the city for connection to the meter. It took 4 tries to get this thing to seal.

Trench and hole drilled in foundation. Original line was 12"-18" deep and new code is 24".

Framing Update

Have finally come to terms with fastening wall plates to the concrete with Tapcons...they need to only be screwed into the concrete 3/4" in or they lock up and snap off or strip.

Shimming and anchoring plates to footing to hide in wall.

Sewer and Plumbing

Shower is installed (fastened and drain connected). It was not much fun to move it in and out 3 times to position the trap assembly in the exact location for gluing.

Washer and pump drain and vent lines. I wish I would have done this myself since it was hard to get the plumber to do what I wanted and I still had to rework some things.Pump outlet to sewer has cleanout behind toilet.
Backfilled...I forgot to get a picture of the big dirt pile.
6" clay sewer line. Plumber's helper had to live down in the bottom of the 4' trench for a while. This took them about 4 hours to complete and were handsomely rewarded.

New PVC Y fitting to 3" ABS line to house.

Framing Starts

Floor Concrete

Finally the concrete day has arrived. 11 yards (~36,000 pounds) of concrete were ordered in 2 trucks (a truck only holds 10). Had to pump the concrete in due to our weak and small driveway. It took about 2 hours to get the mud in and pack up the pump.