Saturday, July 15, 2006
Plumbing
(Top right: upstairs bathroom viewed from the study. Top left: upstairs shower/tub. Bottom left: installing the drains on the first floor. Bottom right: the view of the drains from the second floor to the first)
The plumbing infrastructure is almost set
The second floor bathtub is in, and the major portion of the piping is installed.
The plumbing requires a vent through the roof and another pipe to the for the garden hose: two breaks in the exterior wall. On the roof vent, an S tube was installed just below the roof to make sure that air doesn't come into the house. The garden hose pipe is run through another PVC pipe, so that if there is any leak or freezing of the copper pipe the insulation won't get ruined.
Note that there won't be any 'bathroom fan' as the ventilation for the whole house is centralized, moving air from the outside through the living room and bedrooms and then through the kitchen and bathrooms, then out. This is an important part of the passive design, further explained on the e-colab site.
Also, you can see in the photo above the view of the bathroom from the 2nd floor study down the hall. This upstairs hallway/study area is really beautiful, flowing all the down to the kitchen.
# posted by elizacorps : 12:30 AM
