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You may make your juvenile jokes about having gas now. I'll wait.
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Okay.
The subfloor is all down, we brought the mis-threaded pipe back to Home Depot where a much more competent employee was very gracious about re-threading it all, and once we got home it went together pretty fast. Once enough was in place I could get a good measurement of the last bit, and we brought a long piece of old pipe down to Oly Supply, where they cut and thread it for a small fee. If I'd known all along they were willing to cut & thread pipe purchased elsewhere (or ripped out of a prior installation, as mine was!) I'd have saved myself some money earlier on. Oops.
Anyhow, dad got it all put together, we aired it up with the compressor, and it held pressure. The inspector came yesterday morning, did his cursory glance, and gave it the thumbs up, and yesterday dad stopped by after work and reconnected the whole shebang to the meter.
I have now turned on both the range and the fireplace with no explosions, unwanted fires, or asphyxiation. Yay!
Friday I have to paint the exterior gas line to prevent rust (weather permitting), and this weekend we should get to build the wall.
Today I've got dad's car, so I can return huge amounts of ironmongery to home depot. We hit a point Sunday where we weren't sure what we needed, so we just bought LOTS OF EVERYTHING. I have 20 feet of pipe and an entire bag of fittings to return. :P
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Okay.
The subfloor is all down, we brought the mis-threaded pipe back to Home Depot where a much more competent employee was very gracious about re-threading it all, and once we got home it went together pretty fast. Once enough was in place I could get a good measurement of the last bit, and we brought a long piece of old pipe down to Oly Supply, where they cut and thread it for a small fee. If I'd known all along they were willing to cut & thread pipe purchased elsewhere (or ripped out of a prior installation, as mine was!) I'd have saved myself some money earlier on. Oops.
Anyhow, dad got it all put together, we aired it up with the compressor, and it held pressure. The inspector came yesterday morning, did his cursory glance, and gave it the thumbs up, and yesterday dad stopped by after work and reconnected the whole shebang to the meter.
I have now turned on both the range and the fireplace with no explosions, unwanted fires, or asphyxiation. Yay!
Friday I have to paint the exterior gas line to prevent rust (weather permitting), and this weekend we should get to build the wall.
Today I've got dad's car, so I can return huge amounts of ironmongery to home depot. We hit a point Sunday where we weren't sure what we needed, so we just bought LOTS OF EVERYTHING. I have 20 feet of pipe and an entire bag of fittings to return. :P
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Date: 2013-10-16 08:19 pm (UTC)From:But YAY. PROGRESS.
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Date: 2013-10-16 08:21 pm (UTC)From:Luckily, there are two hardware stores less than 15 minutes from my house, and on Sunday I ran some of the trips while dad stayed home and worked.
We really got a kick out of it while doing the floor, because Kiyoko was staying with me and she came a long. We teased her with it -- "When you get back to Japan, and people ask them what you did your last week in the US --"
"I went to the hardware store! EVERY DAY!"
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Date: 2013-10-16 09:39 pm (UTC)From: