New Solar Panels!!!!

We just got a stack of five 340 watt solar panels today!

Re-roofed + cedar sun deck

So, I am going to run out of projects pretty soon. People I haven't seen in a while have been asking me lately, "Did you ever finish your house?' or "Are you living in your house?".
Yes.. and Yes... although with home ownership it will never be completely finished. There is always something to do, but at this point I just keep making it more deluxe. Many people, when I answer their questions, admit that they never thought I could build it in the first place. Hum.

 Anyways,

I had installed some through bolts in the low side of the roof when I worked the solar panel rail supports into the roof trusses, intending to use them to mount an extra climbing rock hand hold and a cedar sun deck up there. It's hard to find a private and safe place to work on an all over tan! Plus, it's peaceful to be up on the roof and now the square footage is increased a tiny bit more. It has been a deluxe dream since the beginning.

When I bought the standing seam roofing for the steep pitched side they didn't have enough to do the low side, and I bought galvanized corrugated instead, but it has caused some corrosion where it was cut. I wasn't able to get right to the projects the through bolts were for because of injuries, so a little bit of water has been dribbling down them onto the ceiling panels, and caused some mold, and separation of the panels from the frame.

 Can you kinda see the orange colored spolching of the mold?

 The panel around the stove pipe with the mold had to be completely replaced, not hard to do. I just popped the chair rail off and pulled the panel down, cut a new one to fit, caulked it and painted.

Fixing the roof took about 12 hours. I forgot to take pictures, but while the metal was up I added a water proof sheet of plastic, kind of like a pond liner meets a fiber house wrap, and then installed the aluminum standing seam roofing over the top. No fasteners showing! (except on the overhang, they just lead to the gutters) No roof penetrations exposed to the weather. No leaks!

I decided to build up the wall along where it meets with the roof with some strips of pressure treated wood, screwed, flashed, caulked and painted. 

The cedar was left over from an awning I built at work on a house reno project. Waste not want not! Dados, and wood screws. No finish, just sanded.

 70" x 24"

and... the climbing rock roof hand hold, which will be really helpful!

Kitchen Sink Drain and Home-made Sand Filter.

Plumbing is happening. The two blue lines on the right are the vent and the supply lines, the middle line in the drain.

And here shows the propane hose, should that ever be required. Finishing out the paneling under the sink has been on the to-do list for a while, and recently I bought another piece of paneling to fix some water damage to the ceiling, and there was enough left over to wall up this area too. The re-roofing is finished!!!! Standing seam aluminum instead of the over lapping galvanized metal roofing I used at first, because I didn't have enough of the standing seam. The cut edges rusted and dripped corrosion into the joint of the exterior wall and the roof flashing. Bolts I had attached to the trusses and that penetrated the roof from below, to mount a cedar deck and another rock climbing hand hold.....[ work I did before the injuries of 2015 and that remained unfinished], leaked around the temporary seals I put up there, and rotted the paneling of the ceiling. So, now all that is fixed and this project in the kitchen is done too!

 This is the food grade lidded bucket I used to make the under the sink sand filter, using bulk head unions. On occasion I add alum to the water, and close the spigot on the bottom so the water in the bucket has a chance to suspend the particles and then it comes out less turbulent when I open the spigot and drain the bucket. The owner of a local bakery: Independent Baking Co. gave me the bucket. Thank you!

On wheels for easy moving when it's heavy with wet sand and needs to be cleaned.

Inside: a screen to keep the outlet from getting clogged.

Top inlet port.

Here is the drain air admittance only vent stack assembled.

In position.

Here is the drain connection, with a easy hose disconnect, and a Y filter for one last cleaning pass through, and to make sure no sand gets in the tank below the floor.

This is probably the best job I have ever done threading brass into plastic straight and to full depth.

Hard to see under here but the real motivation for finishing all this was to install these collapsible bike baskets to store the meat grinder and pasta maker in.

 All hooked up to the double sink drain.

 Kind of patriotic, completely in-intentional. Oh, Canada!

 Fixed up an old egg crate with some wheels to store what-not in under the sink that is also easy to move. My work as a stage had has taught me how convenient and easy life can be with stuff is on wheels and you can roll it around. House on wheels full of stuff on wheels. The toilet is on wheels, the storage crate/seat, now the sand filter and this crate. Next the chest freezer.

 Here is the "basement" plumbing access hatch.

 As seen open to check/clean the second Y filter before the pump, the carbon and biological filter...

 And there's lots of room to arrange things underneath, and a second egg basket held up by wood cleats under the counter top, which usually holds dishes that are waiting to be washed. Keeping the dishes in a dry holding state like this helps keep the whole situation more manageable; having things pre-scrapped into the compost bucket and given and wipe to get it all residue free and dry helps keep the washing water less turbulent and easier to filter and recycle.