WHAT’S NEW?

The wells for the geothermal system and the water have just been drilled.  On the first well they drilled for our water and actually hit water at 213 feet, which was amazing, because we thought we’d have to go past that.   He continued drilling down to 250 feet, so that even if we had a drought, the water table would still be good.  He set the pump at 225 feet.  That one was an easy one.   It only took two days.  I allowed my two children to be late for school the one day, because it was so cool to watch them drill the well.

For the geothermal system well, it took longer because the shaft caved in, and there was a rock that was stuck in the middle of the hole.  It took about another day extra because of that.   From my understanding, there is a pipe that’s a closed loop that the water circulates through, and that’s how it pulls the hot or cold from the ground.  The following day we got rain, so it took a few days before they came out again - but when they did, they put the cap on for the geothermal system and the line from the water well to the house.

We have something called a water manifold.  It has red and blue lines (hot and cold) and you hook all of your water lines up to that.  That’s essentially hooked up, but we’re waiting for an inspection on the plumbing and electrical.  The plumbing is still waiting for inspection, before gluing it all together.

Having power is amazing.  Actually, the electrical outlets aren’t in, but we have power to the electrical box inside the house, so we can hook into that and have power inside.  It’s nice, because we can keep the house warm with heaters, and plug in more than one light.  We’ve marked where all of the outlets and switches and outside lights - and we needed to move where the doorbell will go, since the side door will be actually what we will use for the front door.  They will be starting to pull the wires today.

ANYTING ELSE?

John has a backhoe today and is digging out the area for the septic system.  We have the water and the electricity, but we need the septic system.  We’re going to try to get that in prior to the spring rains.  Also, our kitchen designer came out the other day and discovered that our kitchen will need to be redesigned, because John somehow made  the closet at the top of the stairs bigger than it was supposed to be.  So, now my refrigerator won’t fit along-side my stove.  It’s really not a big problem.  We’ll just need to redesign the kitchen.  It’s not the end of the world.

Otherwise, that’s about it for this week.