I have a Dream 2

[giantkiller]

Downstairs drywall all 5/8 fire rated. 12 footers are kinda heavy lifting them up on the lift by myself. Had to have steel plates welded to the lift cause it was bending. Under the 12 footers.

[giantkiller]

Descided to put the traps for the mini keg urinals in the walls. So it will be a cleaner hookup under the urinals. Pex for the tappers to flush the urinals above the kegs

[ryanschoebel]

Looking great!!

[giantkiller]

So much work so little time.


I put rockwool in all of the walls. Even in the interior walls. For soundproofing, insulation, and fire stop.

[Pat Conlon]

12 on and 12 off and you still have time to hang 12' x4' sheets of 5/8" type X...by yourself.... you animal.

Yea, get some pros for the tape and mud. They can knock it out quickly. You going with a simple knock down or orange peel texture?
What's the hole in the top of trap weir for? A trap primer?

Are you fully mobile, full range of motion with your new knees? Getting up and down the ladder without pain?

You are doing great Dan! I wish I lived closer to help you.   Pat

[giantkiller]

Don't feel much like an animal anymore. Feel like an old man these days. Was a time when I could do. Set of front lateral raises with a 145 lb dumbbell in each hand. But was pretty much all I could do to reach down and pick those sheets up off my steel toe and put them up on the lift.

Was thinking about going with the orange peel.

The hole is just where I got a little sloppy with the PVC primer. Does look like a hole though

Still doing therapy at work every day. Skipping my lunch  and going up to the fitness center. At 132 degrees of bend. Still swelling up and a lot of pain. Every where around the knees.  Butt not the knee's . Now my ankles, feet, lower back. I think it's because he took about a foot of space out from between my knees. And changed all the angles everything else was used to. Still alot of pain but. It's a thousand times better than before. I get so excited because I can tell. I'm going to be able to be a normal human being!!!!!!

I wish you were too. I would have been done along time ago. But can finally see the finish line...in the distance.

[Millietant]

Descided to put the traps for the mini keg urinals in the walls. So it will be a cleaner hookup under the urinals. Pex for the tappers to flush the urinals above the kegs

It could just be my eyes Dan, but in the picture it looks like you have an electrical switch/connector sitting underneath the urinal pipework ?

Am I just being a doofus (misunderstanding the pic), or blind, or is that something that's normal. I'd be worried about having water/effluent leak from the pipework onto the box - and you seem to amazingly knowledgeable & professional about all of the building stuff, so I'm guessing I'm wrong !

[Pat Conlon]

It's ok to have a drain line over an electrical outlet box...however, having a trap inaccessible inside a wall can be a problem. Traps normally need to be accessible for disassembly and cleaning. If this trap served a sink, this would surely be the case, however, this trap is just serving fluids from a urinal, so accessibility for cleaning should not be an issue.

[giantkiller]

Right on both counts Pat. Asked my inspector. And had no problem with it. But said to keep the picture to have proof of a trap. Alot of traps aren't exposed. Bathtubs, and inslab plumbing ect.

[andyoutandabout]

Dan, I'm in Chicago. PM sent.

[giantkiller]

Dan, I'm in Chicago. PM sent.

I'm working today 7-7. Then will be at the house at 19:15 I'm about 35min. North of Milwaukee. I'll be off work tomorrow. Possibly Friday. I will be there working on the house all day.

[giantkiller]

Here's a picture of the ground loops hooked up in the garage. They didn't quite land in the 2x6 wall like they thought. But it'll work. The company that berried the loops. Came and hooked them up. To the lines I had run to the Geo unit under the stairs. Filled them with water and antifreeze. All part of the original $5000.

[Pat Conlon]

Hey Dan, how are you doing? Are you healed up from your deer strike?

You have your castle buttoned up? Burrrrrrrr Got your hydronic floors warm?

Hope you are ok amigo....you've been awfully quiet....

[giantkiller]

Hey Dan, how are you doing? Are you healed up from your deer strike?

You have your castle buttoned up? Burrrrrrrr Got your hydronic floors warm?

Hope you are ok amigo....you've been awfully quiet....

Well. My knees now CRUNCH really loud and hurt when standing up from a chair. Or anything lower. Since killing the deer with my hip. But otherwise good. Just had my one year check up and doc said all the hardware is still intact. So as far as I'm concerned just the way it's going to be. Good to go.
Just working as much as I can. (Almost 2900hrs. Even after being off for knee replacement) And working on the house after work and all day on any day off.

Finally got sewer and water hooked up into the street. Contractor. Almost didn't get me squeezed in before winter.
Got all the drywall taped mudded and textured. One guy paid him $20/hr. $4700  did a great job. But had a lot of car trouble. Took him 2months. To do what he said would be a couple of weeks. I painted it all. Almost 120 gallons of paint. 10,600 sq ft of drywall. With the 12' ceilings.  Got all the flooring down in the living space. Contractor owed me final stairs. Took out roughed in construction stairs.  I have just gotten them stained and cleared. Don't have any pics after staining. Just finished all the conduit and lights. in the shop. 23 outlets  on 3 circuits in the shop aera. 2 outlets for the welder. 80gall 2stage air compressor and central vacuum  with hideahose.. don't have too many pictures but I'll try to post what I have

[giantkiller]

Here's some pics