Building Update #6 - Pick-Ax Plumbing

Yesterday Jake started the process of putting in the sub-slab plumbing.  He measured to within a half inch where all of our drain/sewer lines would be running.  When he was done we started digging - and found out that the pick-ax would be required.  After several hours of wrist-jarring shoveling we finally got it dug out.  Jake wins the prize for rolling the largest rock out of the trench - Gibralter - that easily weighed over a hundred pounds.  My largest rock was probably only about half that!  

Our newly rolled driveway and site makes getting up to the house with a car much easier.

Putting stakes with strings in the ground to serve as reference points to mark pipe runs.

The plumbing plan.

Measuring and then painting the drain lines to be dug out.  The pipes sticking up are, from left to right, telephone and data, electric, and water.

All laid out and ready to dig.

This was a lot harder than we thought it would be.

Gibralter.