Basically this is showing the zones our hot-water-based radiant heat will be divided into. The manifold is where all the plastic pex pipes running the hot water to the radiators and radiant floors start and end and where you turn on/off certain zones or the whole system. One benefit of such a complicated looking system is efficiency- you can control the amount of water, and therefore heat, going to each zone. Hopefully this means a balanced heating system- no room would ever be too hot while other rooms are chilly.

Ladies
And
Gentlemen,
May We Present:

Our new plumbing!

Rob fires up the water heater pilot and we’re in business!

(Love the crazy white pex wrapped all around? Hvac contractor is supposed to have it all hooked up to a custom manifold by Jan 1, 2010! Let’s start the new year with radiator heat instead of forced air, shall we?)

Meanwhile, we have heard the ghosts of Christmas Past running up (or down?) the steps all evening… Perhaps they are sad because we didn’t get a tree :(

After a LONG day of:
-Running around super early and digging out the car
-both of us punch listing Rob’s big work project
-back to the office
-going to the cute Philly German Christmas village (only to have the major tent closed due to snow collapse) -running to Home Depot, but they didn’t have what we needed so -drive across the snow filled city to Lowes
-eating a frosty from Wendy’s :)
-parking in a snow drift
-dragging our cart filled with purchases through the snow of still un- shoveled curb cuts and sidewalks
… only to finally arrive at our doorstep across from this scene… a gas leak- our neighbor called Rob’s dead (AT&T/ iPhone issue) phone letting us know there was a gas leak on the block. So these poor workers are in the cold digging away under the walkway across the garden :(

And still snow…

De-ice already!

^Rob fires up the propane^

Today we got A LOT of the pipes run in the basement!

Sorry to post ~45 times today. But we hooked up both radiators on the third floor and finished painting the connections and they’re all pretty and ready to heat up and that makes me very very happy!

And it’s still snowing here in Philly!

We had to run to the trusty corner store for some caffeine and breakfast tomorrow… Here’s our street- so pretty!

Our car is slightly buried…

Our deck is one giant drift… Can’t even open the door!

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