Duct work, plumbing, mud, beers and cold

Welcome to Kelleys Island 2013! Well we opened up the season with a bang. The weather was unseasonably cold ~25-35 deg on March 22. I was able to make the second official ferry run at 9:00 AM on Friday. I was pleasantly surprised to find the crawlspace of "Our House" very dry after the long winter.

Uncle Al and Brad came up Saturday morning to work on the HVAC duct work.

Brad working on assembling a duct

Chris helping out

Uncle Al working his magic

 

Huge shout-out to Big Al for spending most of the entire day on Saturday up in the rafters, wrestling with the duct work for the HVAC installation.

Uncle Al and the air handler 

Me filling-up "Old Smokey" the kerosene heater

 

Chris brought up two old-school kerosene heaters from his endless arsenal of stuff. "Old Smokey" and proved to be an invaluable tool for the weekend. Without these heaters, we would have not been able to do much work at all in the frigid cottage. After a few hours, with both heaters working, the cottage heated-up nicely. Since the heat would build up in the attic, we were sweating working up in the rafters.

 

Septic 4" pvc pipe tied into cottage

The area directly in front of the tank inlet will be backfilled with dirt to bury/hide the pipe and gradually tapered towards the cottage. Unfortunately, the pipe from the cottage will be exposed permanently because of its position in the siding. I am planning to add some type of low landscape wall using vertical decking (same as planned for cistern/water tank) starting at the back-right of the septic tank and stopping near the back-right corner of the cottage by the pipe outlet.

Septic 4" pvc pipe tied into tank inlet

 

Thanks to Chris for his help engineering this install using two 22 deg couplers and leveling the proper fall from the house. This job follows the old saying, "sh-t rolls down hill". Let's hope so!    



 



 

Well pump plumbed-up from the water source

 

We managed to get a ton of work done despite the weather. However, we did spend our fair share of time at the Pump drinking beers and "Storm Cloud" shots. Good times...