Getting a ton of work done on the house; been busy/tired enough not to be here on Mud much. I have to balance my consulting work with work on the house - I want to take time off and work with/learn from the builder when he's here, but I need to bill hours myself to be able to continue to pay him and buy materials.
Mrs. 1911 and I have both tried our hands at plastering; we're happy enough with the results but we're very slow compared to the builder (as expected). I have to be careful to mix small batches so that it doesn't start setting up before we can get it troweled on and smoothed.
All three bathrooms are pretty much plumbed-in. We now have water in the house! I spent yesterday and this morning digging up the water lines from the well house to tap in to. Either the well driller or the contractor that built the shop building and apartment did some goofy (in my opinion) routing of the water lines, but I found a good enough place to tee into the high side (after the pressure tank) and all is good; no leaks anywhere, the line is buried in cushion sand, and voila, you can turn on a valve inside the house and water comes out in the kitchen and bathrooms.
This shut-off valve is only temporary; we'll eventually have a wall-mounted manifold but this gets water in the house for now to test the plumbing before we start walling it up in the bathrooms.
I pulled all the propane lines in the house myself, from the outside second-stage regulator into the house and all the distribution inside the house. The house is long enough that I decided to run a 2 psi system and only drop down to the standard 11 inches water column with individual regulators at every appliance (there are only four right now - a cooktop/range, two water heaters and a gas dryer). Here is the manifold where the 3/4" line from the outside second-stage 2 psi regulator comes into the house in the kitchen. The other two 1/2" lines are distribution through the rest of the house. The cooktop/range will come right off the manifold, which will eventually reside inside the island in the kitchen:
The main hallway and the dome module that contains guest bedroom/bathroom suite is pretty much all plastered and skimmed but still not painted or textured:
Staring to roof over the bathrooms; more plumbing, electrical, and plastering/skimming ongoing.