Last update was on Dec. 31st.
Much progress since then, and since a couple friends have asked, here’s an update!
Short version: Well working w/water in the building! Drywall started, ~25% done. Rough plumbing done.
Nate and I worked on getting the new well connected into the basement of the tasting room. Few pictures taken. As I believe I mentioned previously, the new well is across the road from the tasting room building. So a contractor used a horizontal drilling machine to pull two 1″ polypropylene pipes under the road. So we needed to dig a 4′ deep trench (protect water line from freezing) from where the pipe came out of the ground (and back far enough to where it was 4′ down) at both ends … one end to get a trench to edge of basement, and at other end to get trench to well. Then place the pipe into the trench, connect it to the well (4′ down) at well and house. There were 2 pipes, one for water and one for electric to run the pump. We got the wire thru it’s pipe from the well and into the basement, and the water pipe connected to the pitless adaptor at the well, and run into the house thru the basement wall (a sleeve put there when the basement wall was poured back in August). And finally last weekend I got the piping and pressure tank and electric connected in the basement and voila we have water in the building! In a week or so the well driller will come and do a 6 hour flow test on the well as required by the country. After that, with the water hopefully cleared up from the well drilling debris, I’ll take samples to be tested for a variety of possible contaminants, as again required by the county. Based on the test results, a water treatment system will be designed. If nothing unusual is found, it will most likely mean standard particulate filters followed by a water softener and a UV lamp (sterilization).
The drywall work started around January 8, and as of today (Jan. 15) they’re about 1/4 done … with the 1st floor tasting room nearly complete. Pictures here.
And if someone wants to take the time, here are 48 pictures taken of all the walls before drywalling started .. to document where all the electric and fire alarm boxes are in the walls.
Although I don’t have any pictures, the rough plumbing work (drains, hot and cold water) finished up last Friday. This also needed to be done before the drywall was installed.
The drywall is planned to be done by end of next week, end of month at the latest. After that will be painting the drywall, the electricians come back to put the outlets and switches in the electric boxes, and the lights in ceiling and walls. Also about them the new subflooring will be installed throughout the building, probably in early February. By then the windows hopefully will be here, and they’ll get installed in February sometime. After that would be new flooring and trim/molding around windows and the walls at floor.