3/15/19:
Building Summary: Today I started off by hooking the length of waterline we laid yesterday to the well’s outlet. This was followed by my fashioning a ‘spigot holder’ from a piece of recycled container metal, and then by my attaching that holder to the north side of Jacobhouse. After that, Padre and I put together the stub-up (for my home’s future water supply), the rising faucet line, and another capped stub-off for if we ever need to use the line to get water to my neighbors’ water trough.
Commentary: There is water beneath Jacobhouse. That’s the obvious highlight for today. The feeling of having an actual source of running water a mere step out of the door is quite something. Now, if I had to, I could be live at Jacobhouse this very day. It would be far from fancy, mind, but as of right now, my container home has almost as many amenities as Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond. I have water, heat, A/C, a table, and a well-insulated abode to keep out the wind and rain. The only things that are missing are a stove (easily remedied) and a root cellar (refrigerator).
There is the second highlight I should mention as well. It’s the fact of my using (via Padre’s idea) a piece of metal taken from the refrigerator unit that originally hung in the back of Jacobhouse. It was a small part, and it required some modification, but it worked perfectly for what I needed it to do; that is, provide a small flat surface onto which I could attach a pipe clamp (pictured above).
Final note: It seemed like there were a few days over the past week where not much was accomplished at Jacobhouse – a doldrums, I think it could be called. However, these past two days have reminded me that the construction process is prone to ‘sudden gusts’. I never know exactly when they will arrive, but they do, and I suppose that’s how I’ve gone from ‘reefer container’ to ‘cabin’ over the past nine months.
As for what I will do tomorrow, I reckon I’ll fill in the remaining portions of ditch that won’t be used for the sewage line and make a list of parts needed to hook Jacobhouse’s internal piping to the stub-up we made today. These tasks may be followed or accompanied by more floorboard installation, the gluing of mini-valves to the indoor CPVC lines, and other additional tasks*.
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*Cabinets.