Maintenance - Water, Ladder Rack and Fibro

So much to do this trip!  Before all this started and early on Rob, Nelson and I finally reviewed the tiling/stucco project that has remained unstarted since last Fall.  We went through it all, but in the process found that while all the fihrolet had originally been properly attached to the metalwork, during Javier's electrical work he only attached one screw per piece.  So I spent a morning and a full box of screws reattaching all of the fibrolet in Bedroom 3 so that it was ready for stucco.  I also resorted all the tile, and stacked in the CENTER of the room so that Nelson had clear space.  All that remains if for Rob to remove the plywood that is being donated to the Upper Guard House project.

Once all that was done, no more needed to be done inside on that level. 

There is future work to be done, but more on that a few blog posts from now. 

So the other thing that was left poorly done from the October 2011 trip was the water filter on the bodega level.  We had limited fittings so Javier did it with limited supplies and in a fashion Jim was unable to live with.  Further, the fittings over the blue filter housing leaked about 1 gallon per day. 

So armed with a small supply of fittings and pipe, Jim took apart that setup and redid it as you can see in this second photo.  This photo was taken right after gluing up the fittings which is why the valves are OFF.  The support for the blue housing doesn't exist as in the original filter setup, this would have gone beneith the kitchen sink with the other two filter housings for the drinking water system, and those supported this blue housing between them. 

So that bit of electrical wire hanging from two screws is my arranged hanger for the filter. 

As part of the The Wall project, the hose bib off the driveway needed to be extended.  I regret I don't have a before photo.  But in this AFTER photo, you can see it was extended to just past the trench for the new lower wall. 

With workers using the bodega level to make up rebar cages; my ladders were in the way. Using a piece of rebar on EACH of two angle pieces, and having Avarro weld them to the angle pieces, in just a few moments we fashioned a good ladder rack. You can see in these two photos both the 28' extension ladder, and the 8' A frame ladder.

So, this sums up this part of the maintenance post, and makes up the first Feb 2012 series.