Plumbing...what's really going on behind your walls.

Something that I really enjoy about this whole process is knowing what's going on under my house, and behind the walls.  Normally I would never think twice about that stuff.  Do we have water? Great.  Do we have lights?  Awesome.  Never mind what's actually making those things possible.  But now, nooooow, I love knowing. 

The plumbers started working last Thursday, did a little on Friday, a lot on Monday, and then finished up today.  I guess the inspector stopped by at some point this morning, and all was approved.  In case you are dying to know what roughed-in plumbing looks like, here you go:

 Blue = cold water pipes       Red = hot water pipes

 If you follow these pipes up to the attic, you find the water heater!  Can you see it?  It's kind of dark...

 The best thing about that is, you will not find it actually sitting in one of our bathrooms like it was when we bought the house: 

 In fact, that bathroom is looking much different these days:

 You can see where the doorway used to be, right?  We decided to wall over that doorway and move the new doorway around the corner (to the left). We weren't really digging the idea of being able to see the toilet from the living room, kitchen and dining room if the bathroom door is left open. So, in switching the doorway over to the side, you won't be able to see inside the bathroom at all...which is much better!

Here we have the tub, again you will see the hot and cold water lines, and if you look really close you might even see the copper line running up to where the shower head will be...

Hookups for sink and toilet...

Hookups for washer and dryer:

Drains for bathroom #2:

 Water pipes and drain for the stand-up shower in bathroom #2:

And finally, my favorite part of it all...the water spicket on the front of the house: 

We will be celebrating this weekend by washing our cars, since hooking up a hose is just about the only way we can actually use this water until it's time to put all of the fixtures in!

We will be appliance shopping in about two weeks, which will be quickly followed by all of the electric going in!!  That will be Edition #2 of "What's Going On Behind Your Walls"!  :)