Hot Water Rebirth/Studio Labor Pain.

Here is a highlight from the exciting adventure we had replacing our water heater. To be honest it was fairly easy work after spending 24 hours straight taking notes on Tom Conlon's masterful plumbing on the rest of our house, I felt confident that I could make secure solder joints. See for yourself in this video:



Seriously though, it wasn't my solder joint! I simply didn't screw on the pipe tight enough to the hot water heater...uhg. Re-doing work is always fun!

Fun facts about our old water heater:
1.) It's for a mobile home.
2.) The leak is somewhere in the middle of the tank and we can't find it.
3.) I'm considering (to Rhonda's dismay) of making it into a water collection barrel for our garden.

Other than that I cut a terribly asymmetrical circle for our sun tube in the new studio. Observe: Not to worry though, we had a massive storm that night and our new sunhole thing didn't leak! Hooray. Rhonda and I also put in another window. We've gotten quite good at putting in windows. This took us perhaps 40 minutes. Since then we've put in some laminate flooring we had from a failed wholesale show display attempt, put up beams for a ceiling to keep in the heat, finished the sun tube, installed a doorknob/deadbolt, finished insulating the beast, put up a strange mixture of OSB and drywall walls from stuff we had lying around, and painted the walls! We'll take pictures of all that progress soon.

Oh the house you ask? See the posts below...it looks exactly the same. This week I will be a force (farce??) of nature and FINISH the kitchen and living room before Jason and Joanna come for their much anticipated visit on Saturday. I leave you with this terribly sad picture.

Wheeeeee!

-elijah.Rhonda extracts the old heater with her jeweler's saw.
This process is so tedious I refuse to do it.