Home is where the heart is Part 4: The guts of a house

I did a lot of things myself on this house. I went down to [local lumber company] and picked out the cabinets. They had a set that somebody had ordered, but then didn't want, so I picked 'em up for half price. Pretty good deal too, I had to cut a couple down to size, but that's no big thing. So, I got the cabinets. But, the real work was doing the plumbing and the electrical for the house.

Now, plumbing's not that hard, you just have to know what you're doing. It's a lot easier to do when you put in all the pipes before the walls are covered in drywall, that way, you can see everything you're doing. So, that's what I did, I ran the pipes, and did all the soldering. I put them all in, so that when the walls were up, I could just connect up the sinks and shower, and I'd be all set. Now, the plumbing, it's not so hard, you just make sure that the pipes don't leak. But, the electrical, that's another trick.

I didn't want to do all the wiring, because I didn't really know what I was doing, and I didn't want the house to burn down. So, what I did was I talked to my brother the electrician. He told me that I should run all the wires, and that he'd hook them up. So, that's what I did, took me a couple of days, but I ran all the wires through the house, got them where they needed to go, then he came down one day, and checked my work. He said that they all looked good, and he hooked them up to the fusebox. By the time I built my garage, I was good enough that all I needed him to do was check my work, I did all the hooking up myself.