The House Project: I Can See The Light At The End Of The Tunnel!

Or is that a sewer pipe?

I went up there this afternoon to see how it was progressing. The septic tank guy was there on Saturday, and here you can see the excavation for the tank, about 150 feet down the hill from the house.


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Here's the drain pipe leading down the hill from the house.


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Here's where the drain pipe leaves the house.


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The fitting coming up to sidewalk level is there because lots of people up there own RVs, and it is convenient to have a fitting that lets them drain directly from the RV tank into the septic. We don't own an RV, and I can't imagine that we ever will, but it only added $25 to add this fitting, and perhaps a future owner will find it helpful. It also looks like it might make it simpler for a plumber to snake the line.

I'm not sure what this little piece of concrete is all about.


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It is either part of the septic tank system (based on its location), or it is a Cubist reinterpretation of R2D2. [UPDATE: I'm told that this is the distribution unit that directs output equally to the different leach field lines.]

Here's the backup generator, still waiting to be hooked up and located (probably out at the edge of hill, to reduce noise). It is rated at 7 kW (when running on LP gas), with automatic switchover in the event that we lose grid power, and it starts itself automatically every week to make sure everything is in good working order.


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The furnace seems to be completely installed.


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Again, the view out the front is about the worst view we have. (It will get better once the scrap is cleaned out and the grass goes in.)


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Unfortunately, the house now has temporary construction doors--and the locks are now actually operational, so I can't get into the house--reduced to peeking in the windows, like some sort of Construction Peeping Tom!


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This interesting effect was because the reflective surface of the glass acts as a mirror--and these were the parts that I wasn't able to shade.


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The construction crew seems to be clearing out some of the space on the west side of the garage, so that we can have a walkway over there.


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The roof shingles are on top, waiting to be hammered into place.


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Last house project entry.