This house never ceases to amaze me... I've spent the last couple days cutting out the old plumbing for the heating system. While the boiler and radiators worked great last winter, whoever did the plumbing on it was a hack. All and I mean all the joints were cold soldered... Hell just by chance you would think they might have gotten one of the hundred or so joints hot enough to get a nice flow of solder, but it was not to be... While that drives me crazy, I probably still would have left it alone for a while. The thing that pushed me over the edge was that the pipes ran randomly all over the place, and in many cases, they were so low that almost everyone had to duck under them... There was no reason the pipes could not have been run up in the joists, but mostly they hung sickly down from incorrect hangers...
At any rate, the odd thing is that the system didn't leak... I mean nary a drip was ever seen... Clearly the gods of plumbing (Dripicus, Flushicus, and Flowicus) were smiling on whoever put the thing together... They let me get through last winter, and for that I'm thankful, but I wasn't going to push my luck again... The whole system should be able to be put in, in a couple days I think, with the exception of the radiator that comes in, in September naturally... Now I just need to work out where all my pipes are going to run, and get the right fittings, pipe and control valves... I'll have to make an offering to the gods of burnt copper and solder so what I put in doesn't leak too...
Hey, just see you made it back to the bloggy world. Cherry flooring? And pre-fit pre-finished trim? Lad, you warm my heart. Glad to see somebody still does it the old (and better) way. Good stuff.
Posted by: outfoxed at August 20, 2005 08:59 PMAnd ya know, it's nice to know there are actually people out there that still appreciate that sort of thing... Cheers!
Posted by: Tim at August 22, 2005 12:32 PM