this is what happened 2 weekends ago. i’m not even going to try and give any excuses for why i’ve been so slow…
(left) me insulating mathew’s “squct”. (right) mathew outside making LOTS of noise cutting and removing old cast iron pipes.
(left) one of my favorite tools: the nail puller. (right) one of mathew’s new tools: a rain barrel.
(left) mathew’s strange pipe garden collection in the garage. (right) the new “squct” is now much friendlier to mathew’s head/height.
(left) for most of the afternoon i helped mathew install new pipes outside the house. it was raining but not pouring. sorry this photo is kind of dark, we work pretty late… (right) and when i wasn’t helping i was stripping wainscotting panels. these are done, although it’s probably hard to tell. next they’ll need sanding, filling and painting.
we’ve been getting so much rain over the last few weeks. mathew finally attached the roof rain spout to the barrel. he was so excited when the rain started saturday night that he ran downstairs to check it but there wasn’t that much rain yet. by sunday morning it was full!
mathew cutting and hammering all that old rusty cast iron pipe, making it smaller to fit in the trash. what a big noisy mess he made! strange that you can just destroy cast iron with a hammer….
pipe photos mathew took. i don’t know if he was just documenting or wanting to describe something…
more pipes, and ducts. the plumbing and heating ducts are now done and the work can continue upstairs in the bathroom.