Cork Floor

I finally finished the baseboards after the floating cork floor went in.

It feels a little hollow under foot, but is very comfortable considering it is directly over concrete.

Basement Bedroom

Bathroom Tile

Painting

Main area is white with a slight linen tint.

I filled all the holes in the joists with dowels and putty.  Sconces are cast porcelain.

Bedroom has a hint of blue

Faces SE with nice morning sunlight

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".