Supply Lines

The week after Thanksgiving the guys really outdid themselves. The supply lines bringing water into the house and to every faucet and toilet have to be routed to the right spots for hot and cold water and to places where the water can be shut off if necessary. They did all this in just two days.

The main valve area for shutoff and geothermal, water heater, water softener, etc. is in the garage. One nice feature is there is a loop of hot water pipe that goes all around the house and has about 20 gallons of volume if you add the volume up of all the hot water pipes encircling the house. This means that whenever you turn on a hot water faucet in the house there is already hot water there in the pipe no matter how far away you are from the hot water heater/source.

I say pipe...it really is a thick plastic tubing with foam insulation. They haven't used any actual metal pipe in any of the plumbing so far. It just feels more normal to call plumbing "pipes." But there are tubes everywhere now!

Pics:


Deep hole dug with a backhoe to route geothermal pipes under the stem wall


The main valve and pipe central is there on the left:


Look at all the pipes/tubes!



A two-foot or so trench was dug all the way from the house to the garage shop building to provide water service to the little building (toilet and sink). The septic for the garage/shop is separate from the house.





So that's it for the regular plumbing. Next is geothermal plumbing, inspection and then it's time for more cement!