Water line connections

Connected some more PEX water lines that run thru the kitchen ceiling tonight. Progress!!! It all counts!

No toilet yet... but I'm loving having water to my spigots!!!

We have water to the outside spigots!

My plants aren't thristy anymore!

Rich got the water lines to the outside spigots all set up for me!

Can't set a toilet until the tiling work is done.

Pulling PEX water lines

We're pulling water lines throughout the house!

Running Water lines...

The latest project is running water lines.... oh the dream of a flushing toilet!

Rich is using Pex tubing to run water lines. We have blue & red spaghetti strung all over the house!

The Pex manifolds have been hung.

The town turned the water off for us so that we could make a change in the main water line... (my poor little plants... thristy...)

We ran into a snaffoo yesterday.

The main water line coming into the house needed to be shortened so that it can be tied into the cold water manifold. We went everywhere looking for these special elbows.... all over Lovell, to Powell... then Billings.

Then... we decided to take a different approach. I'm hoping that we can get that fixed this morning and get the water turned back on!!!

I'm thinking about...

Mudding! Got to have my Dad come over and give me some pointers!

Water lines... the beginning

Rich is running water lines. He worked on it all day today. We're using Pex tubing... so it's going pretty fast.

Friday... plumbing... loopy... loopy

Boy, that PVC cement sure makes me loopy!

We worked all day gluing more piping. Back at it tomorrow.

Can't find my camera... shoot!

Started gluing PVC drain pipes

Oh my goodness... that glue can sure make you loopy!

Rich started gluing together the drain pipes. We're about 1/3 of the way done with that.

I'm starting to think about tiling...

Plumbing work continues...

We're continuing to work on the sewer lines. Getting closer now!

A friend from church stopped me this morning when I was out for my walk. He and his wife want to sell their beautiful, "too large for their house" dining room set.

Need to go over and see it!

I will need lots of furniture to fill our new home!!! I'm going to enjoy that process!!!

Scoping out the bathroom in the basement

Rich and I were in the basement last night... It's going to have a full bath... well.. no tub... it'll have a shower stall.

So... we were "scoping" it out... deciding where the piping was going to go... seeing how the spacing would work... you know... with the toilet and vanity.

It's a small bathroom... but it'll be perfect for the boys and their friends! We plan to have some gaming tables down there... and a microwave... and would love a popcorn machine.... or... hmmm... scrapbooking tables... ooooo... sounds like mama might have some fun with friends too! : )

2nd floor sheetrocking... continues...

Took supper up the house... spoon burgers and pumpkin pie... fed everyone too well... didn't get too much accomplished.

Joe, Matthew, & Trent continue to work on sheetrock. The 2nd floor is really coming together! They worked on the 2nd floor hall last night.

Rich & I looked over plumbing... and put together a plan of attack for tonight.

Can't wait for a bathroom...

Ah... to dream of such things... as a bathroom...

You can only truly understand this dream when you've been building a new home for at least several years...

The master bath will have one of those new fangle steam shower whirlpool tubs. I know... it looks like a time machine!

Ah... I could use that right now!

AND... because I decided that I had to have one... because I've had one for years and years... an antique clawfoot tub!

Thanks to our nephew, sheetrocking rolls onward!

Plumbing is well under way... and sheetrock...

Spent the afternoon up the house. Rich is working on dry fitting the plumbing.

It's so exciting to see those pipes in the ceilings and walls! But still lots to do...

The boys-- my older son corralled by my nephew-- are putting up ceiling board and wall board on the outer walls where the plumbing stuff won't go...

Wow... ceilings and walls... still no toilet... but getting closer...

Plumbing!

Well, we'll be back at it tonight working on Plumbing.

Last week we realized that we didn't have nearly enough Piping stuff.

So now for some dry fitting...

Can't wait to have a toilet!

Here it is with the siding up!

The color is called Country Red. It's a beautiful, deep, rich color.

sheetrock is going up!

We have some sheetrock up on the ceilings on the 2nd floor!

Geothermal heat and cooling.

We're looking into using ground source (geothermal) for heating and cooling our home. This will take our heating and cooling costs way down!

My understanding is the most of the cost is upfront and that the system pays for itself in a short time... while we enjoy low heating/cooling bills for years and years and years!

This site talks about how it all works: http://www.geothermal.org/what.html

We had a gentleman come to our "work in progress" last week. Should get the estimate soon.

Been too cold!

Been to cold to work further on the roof. We're been in a deep freeze for the past few weeks with temps below zero.

Going to warm up to 30 soon though!

Got to get the roof up!!!!

Moving along...

No more dirt hills out front!

A 2nd floor porch!