Remodel Album

[nezwick]

I will look through the rest of your pics in a bit - also wanted to say the outside of the house looks great! The renovation is coming along nicely also - I particularly like the tall baseboard you are installing.

But is that a cast iron plumbing stack on the OUTSIDE of the house (in the last pic you posted) with a vent on top?! How does that even work? Perhaps I'm just naive but I have never seen anything like that. I understand the concept of a plumbing stack but what is preventing the contents from freezing? Not sure where you live, but around here many people have to wrap all pipes, even in basements, to prevent freezing. Sometimes even just being enclosed inside an exterior wall will allow them to freeze.

[rainyday]

Thanks for the encouragement, as now we are losing the old kitchen sink wile the floor is made level- we are down to the upstairs bathroom little round sink for anything related to "cooking"- like water for coffee! I haven't seen the microwave in several weeks, it's buried under something But it's really exciting.
I think what you mean is in fact the new chimney for the gas wall- insert "bed and breakfast" stove that can be sort of seen poking above the roofline. There is the old, original exterior plumbing line running to the second floor, though, too. The other somewhat visible metal pipe is our other gas stove- unless you mean the shorter roof vents sticking up?
The wide trim is original. We are reusing all that was pulled off and they are milling some pieces to match, for the several new doors.

[nezwick]

Yeah, I am referring to the exterior plumbing that can be seen along the outside of the back of the house. Is it still in service?

[rainyday]

Sorry- I misunderstood, since I'm noticing the NEW things sticking up Yes- that's the original plumbing pipe stack thing- I have heard tour guides point it out to groups as evidence of indoor plumbing going in. At this time the only active plumbing in the vicinity is the tiny toilet and sink added to a small closet upstairs and where the short length of pipe goes into the wall is near where the little sink is. We live in the Pacific Northwest but it does get below freezing and sometimes snows on occasion, too. I usually keep the sink dripping when it gets really cold and have an electric radiator just outside the bathroom door, too- so far it's not been a problem since we took over the house. Not sure if that would be the case if it were "in charge" of the rest of the plumbing? And I'm not convinced it currently is doing anything at all, the inspector didn't say anything, although we had a short vent stack that was supposed to make the drain work that is being removed when we change out the old farmhouse sink for a washer and dryer in that corner.

[nezwick]

Either way - very interesting. Keep up the good work.