River Brown

And, look, where’s the drain? How do those strange-looking pipes actually function?
Turns out one of the pipes on it is for pumping the water out fast, which is a desired feature.  Getting a pump for the model will be tricky. As tricky as finding the drain and connector.  Remember the sale of tubs is guarded by a small ring of people who only sell installation packages.  Joseph, to his credit. has found schematics online, and a phone number, but has plans to get past the sales people.  He knows a distributor who could get parts except they’re moving for the next month and can’t do orders.  I have complete confidence in him after seeing how Joseph handled the historic permit hold on our sewer line out in the front yard.

It hasn’t been all set backs. The tubs and laundry are plumbed into a T, then there are four pipes with valve fittings coming out of the bottom of the wall on the back of the house, and one on the front of the house, too. The drip hoses hook up there.  My friend J. has agreed to come help me lay out that part of the gray water system.  I will do the first hardware trip on my own since there’s no such thing as one trip to OSH anyway.  Soaker hoses and irrigation equipment is a foreign, mysterious looking aisle where I’ve never ventured.

With our household average daily water usage being 90 gallons a day, when both of us are home, Joseph kept thinking as he was plumbing that the holding tank won’t be necessary (the preferred one turns out to be costly). The clean-up to make space for a tank in the basement was absolutely necessary.  Ew, what a mess down there.  I set things out on the curb all morning Saturday — and by late afternoon they were all gone.  Well, we won’t know for sure about the tank issue until the tub can be tested and the drip/soaker lines are running out under the gorilla hair.