New Project

We are starting to plan our next project, so that I don't have to drag our laundry down TWO flights of stairs, say it together now.....PROJECT LAUNDRY STATION.

Ok so really we were planning it before, but now it's all written/scratched down on a piece of paper (which I'm sure we will lose here soon). A trip to Lowes is the only thing standing between us and running our Pex from the second floor "closet room" to the basement. Last night we pulled the dishwasher out and cut a nice hole in the drywall under the cabinet so we could run along side the vent pipe. We were wanting to make sure we weren't going to run into firestop, so we jammed a dowel rod up the wall, no firestop, to the right of the vent pipe is a stud, so we'll be running our pex to the left.

So I was reading my Old House Journal Compendium book, which is a wonderful book and we were reading about plumbing. Before last night we hadn't really thought about the vent being connected to the kitchen sink and the laundry station. So we read we needed a separate run for the sink and tie it into the already there vent but above the laundry station. Not something I was too excited about but better than the house filling with sewer gas. ANYWAYYYYY, while dinking online we found they make one way valves for that reason, so we can just buy one of those and stick it under the kitchen sink, haha.

Soooo, our Lowes list looks something like this...and we won't be buying all of it today:
pex
220
floodstop device
sharkbite adapters for copper to pex
pex crimp rings (got a deal already on the crimper)
pvc drain parts

Sounds simple enough, always does right.? Mind you I've still not put down my shoe molding that we bought a couple months ago. I need to stain or paint it. Buuuuut we actually bought shoe molding this time not quarter round, so I won't have to do any stupid freaking RETURN CUTS.

Tomorrow we are going to look at some wood storm windows someone is selling. I reallllly hate the look of aluminum storm windows (and some of our windows don't have storms), so I was looking at the price of wood ones, holyyyy molyyyy $3oo a window, we have 20 some windows. Anyway these people have a 115 year old victorian (sound familiar?) and are getting rid of theirs for 5 bucks a set. Any no I'm not buying new windows for my house (and the next sales person that comes by the house pointing out my old windows, I'm going to laugh at them and send them to the a subdivision). Why don't I want new windows? They are ugly, we have some new ones and they leak cold air worse than my 115 year ones!