Plumbing Consultation

Saturday morning I met a local plumber at the cottage to discuss the plumbing situation. Having never owned a lake house, I am not very informed when it comes to cottage water systems. I spent close to 45 minutes going over the system currently in place, and his suggestions on what should be done to bring the plumbing to code.

RC (the plumber) is going to email an estimate for the work that he is recommending. Some of the suggestions are very good, and some of the other would be nice but probably not necessary. I honestly think that CMV and I could do most of the work ourselves, and reduce the labor hours but I don't know if RC would allow us to do this.

I did not take a picture of the plumber but here are a few of the water system.

These are water pipes leaving the bathroom and going towards the kitchen sink. These have been repaired recently, but not very well. At the very least, the hole should have been covered with an access panel.

This is the hot water heater. It is located in the storage shed near the carport. Ideally this will be moved into the house to allow quicker supply of hot water to all of the plumbing fixtures. This is one of the tasks that I think we can do ourselves, although it may lend peace of mind to have a licensed plumber perform the work. It will be interesting to see the monetary value of "peace of mind".

Deja Vu

This weekends project was to take up the carpet in the dining room. After spending time walking on the floor, I think we expected the same situation as we had in the living room. The first picture is the room before the job was started. We have been using the back wall of this room as a storage area for our paint and supplies.




This picture was taken after everything was cleared out of the kitchen. The room is now ready, and I can begin rolling up the carpet and padding. We are going to keep the carpet from this area for possible future use in one of the bedrooms. The padding will be thrown out and replaced if necessary.

As expected, the floor of the kitchen was patched in the same fashion as the living room floor. It appears at some point there was some repair work done on the septic system, and large sections of the floor were cut to provide access. Once the repair was complete, the holes were patched with plywood and then what appears to be luan scraps, covered with luan sheets.

The larger strips of luan were pulled up to expose the smaller scrap pieces placed here and there. In one spot there were four layers of luan. These smaller pieces were removed to leave one layer of flooring.

The floor that remains is poorly patched and in need major repair. The next step will be to remove the cabinets and then take up and replace the floor. Luckily this job is not very expensive to complete, but it will require a lot of work, removing the old floor.