It has been a while since we have done a construction update, and we apologize for our tardiness. We have had some delays for which we might blame the economy, the weather and the holiday season, but we are back on track now and scheduled to finish in a few short weeks.
Chad will give you a little tour through the 100k this week and show you our progress up to plumbing and electrical rough-in. We’ll be happy to answer any questions, as always, in the comments.
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Will you be doing anything to cut down the noise of water rushing through the plastic waste pipe? A big pet peeve of mine. That and noisy exhaust fans.
In the video, you mentioned a few unplanned changes – bathroom layout, spray foam – others? What were their causes and effects on cost / completion time? If you could talk in general about unplanned work I think that would be interesting.
Andy – We don’t have anything specific planned for the waste pipes. I guess in the future we could look at the price of iron all the way to the bath since it’s such a small run. We are mounting our exhaust fans on the roof to handle noise issues with them.
icewater – Good questions. I think we’ll dedicate a post to this in the future…
Some sound insulation batts around the waste pipe before it closes in is not a bad idea, but they are still noisy compared to iron.
The January 2007 issue (no. 184) of Fine Homebuilding Magazine had an article on sound control. The author uses this stuff (http://soundsense.com/pdfs/LV-A.pdf) to wrap waste pipes. A lot of other good suggestions in there to.
Panasonic makes super quiet bath fans for $62, which I’m sure is cheaper than messing about on the roof.
Even an ERV for the Bath for under $300!
http://wamhomecenter.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=1993&idcategory=0
I use them even in my market rate apartment buildings, because frankly, the cheap fans don’t prevent mold. They are so quiet that I worry that my tenants leave them on too much.
BTW, I’ve used a Fantech fan on the roof before, and I was amazed at all the noise that came back thru the duct. My duct run was only 3 ft., though. I tried a duct liner and that didn’t help either.