Well the plumbing is done... Almost...
It took us 3 days to cut, fit, clean, flux and sweat what we did. The only thing left is to install a wall panel radiator that comes in late in September, install a pressure regulator that is also on order, move a gigantic radiator in to the basement and plumb the two short connectors, screw in the air bleeders, and fix one elbow that we must not have used flux on... Not bad for a retired engineer, and a stagehand in my book... The system should work quite nicely, but naturally that remains to be seen... It does however look good in the basement... While that doesn't make any real difference functionally, it does make the house more a home... I've seen lots of plumbing where pipes weren't plumb or level, with odd angles everyplace, and you just sit there thinking, geesh, what were they thinking... You aren't really saving much that way in terms of fittings, or pipe, its just lazy... Sure running pipes through joists is a little harder than strapping them underneath, but it makes such a huge difference both visually, and in protecting the pipes that the effort is well worth it...
Let me sum it up with a quote, which as you know I never do...
"A hundred years from now, they will gaze upon my work and marvel at my skills but never know my name. And that will be good enough for me. "
-Dan Holohan (writer, plumber, marketer of "Dead Man's Gear")
Yea, it should last that long.