Plumbing rough in day 8

Plumber came to do some rough in work for the ductless condensation drains. We are putting all drainage of the ductless inside the walls so that it is neither visible from inside nor outside. Here in the basement all the ductless condensation lines are drained to the floor drain behind the stairs.

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Natural gas connection

The locate for the natural gas utility line is done. Hopefully Enbridge will schedule the installation of the gas line soon.

Utility locate

HVAC rough in day 10

HVAC rough in continues today. Here the gas meter location is marked with a stick and where the gas supply line enters the house is setup. The 6″ grill you see on the right is the exhaust for the HRV.

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HVAC rough in day 9

The ductless line sets are completed laid today. All the line sets are running inside the house walls so that there’s no ugly refrigerant lines on the exterior of the house.

This is the west side unit on the 1st floor. There’s enough space under the steel beam to allow the line sets to go through to the duct wall.

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HVAC rough in day 8

Dean from Hall’s Heat & Cool is back working on the HVAC rough in.

Here’s the two sent of intake & exhaust pipes for the furnace and the water heater completed. The color of the PVC pipe is different than what you are use to for HVAC intake / exhaust pipes because the north wall is a fire rated wall and we have decided to use fire rated CPVC pipes instead of conventional PVC pipes.
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HVAC rough in day 8

For the ductless side of the HVAC, the work continues on getting all the hangers made and installed for the rest of the three ceiling cassettes.

This is the unit on the 2nd floor on the west side. The hangers are completed. The cassette unit will not be installed because the roof needs to be spray foamed first.
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This is inside the 2nd floor bedroom. The 2×6 bracing is installed, the hanger is not there yet. The units here will also not be installed so that the roof can be spray foamed first.

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HVAC rough in day 7

HVAC rough in work continues. Here some of the ducts are covered up to protect them from debris and the eventual spray foam application.

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Plumbing rough in day 7

Alex and Anthony from AV Mechanical  continues the plumbing rough in work.

This is the supply line to the kitchen island. There’s also a small copper line which is the ice maker water line for the refrigerator.

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Plumbing rough in day 6

More plumbing work today with more supply lines laid.

Here’s what I have in my mechanical room right now. On the left is the hot/cold pair for basement bathroom. The on the right side from the left I have hot/cold for 2nd floor bathroom, hot/cold for kitchen, hose bib for the back, and hot/cold for the 1st floor bathroom.

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Plumbing rough in day 5

Plumbing works continues today. With the drain pretty much finished, water supply lines are being laid out today.

I choose to have a manifold system to distribute the hot/cold water supply. So there are a lot of lines will need to be run from the mechanical room to the target location.We are looking at laundry room, basement washroom, 1st floor powder room, 1st floor kitchen, 2nd floor bathroom, and 2 hose bib one at the back of the house and one on the roof top terrace. So that’s 5 pair of hot/cold lines and 2 cold water only line that needs to be run.

Here we see the first 3 lines being laid. These are the hot/cold water lines for the 1st floor powder room, and the cold water to the hose bib at the back of the house. The supply lines are PEX or (cross-linked polyethylene) lines, so they are flexible. With the tight space I have in this house, it would have been super labour intensive to run copper pipes.

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