Rough In Plumbing & Electrical

The first half of March we've had rough in plumbing and electrical completed. They'll do their final connections after sheetrock. We've gone over budget in both of these categories, partly due to our subcontractors unfamiliarity of working with ICF construction. If we were building our second ICF home there are several things we would have done differently to stay on budget. But, hindsight is always better isn't it? Only through trial and error (and looking to God for wisdom and direction) do we learn.




Here's a sample of electrical wiring in styrofoam walls. Castellow Electric used a circular saw to cut their wiring channels.

After each subcontractor did their work, the family went to work cleaning up after them. So far, we've gotten away with not having a dumpster on site. That's another bonus to ICF, less waste.

Here's what's called an add a vent or butterfly vent in the kids' bathroom on the second floor. It vents into attic. We have only one vent through the roof that vents to the outside.

Here's a sample of plumbing (red and blue tubing and white pipes) and electrical wiring going through our floor joists between the first and second floor.

This is the latest photo of the front of our house as of March 19, 2007.

The west side of our house.

The back or south side of our house. The steel framing is for our carport and bonus room. The wood structure is the breezeway connecting the house to the carport.