Plumbing

After spending the last three and a half years hoping, praying, fixing, patching, drinking out of a filter, watching water pressure decrease, and listening to drops of water fall somewhere in the house, we have NEW PLUMBING!!! I am so excited about this! Its the little things that you might take for granted (like rust free water) that make the difference.

I took a picture of our kitchen faucet with the hot water all the way on, so that I would remember how awful it was getting. Lovely little trickle of water- huh? Try washing dishes with this kind of water pressure.
Our pipes were so rusted that they were cutting holes in the neck of the kitchen faucet. For the past 3 months or so, our faucet has had a dish rag draped over its neck to prevent my kitchen from getting a shower while I did dishes.


This is a picture of the water filter we had to have on the kitchen faucet in order to prevent to much rust from getting in our drinking water. The part you are looking at here is where the faucet connects with the filter. Ya- those little rocks- RUST!
Jon and my dad spent all day Saturday cutting out the old galvanized pipe and replacing it with PEX plumbing. Here is most of the old rusty stuff. I think it looks much better outside than inside my house :)

You could not see through some of the pipes- they were that rusted.



Here is the new, wonderful, clean, efficient plumbing:
I am so lucky that my husband and my dad could put this all together for us. It is such a relief to have it done. It was amazing to hear how full the dishwasher got the first time we ran it. Full water pressure on every facet is fabulous! Clean drinking water out of any faucet is a relief. Knowing that my house is WAY less likely to have a broken pipe is priceless.