All Plumbed

As it was a lot to do for a novice, I had an expert redo all the kitchen and mostly all the laundry water and drain pipes. The kitchen sink is changing from a double drain to single, and will be directly under the window now. The laundry is moving to the adjacent wall for hopefully better space management.

Before

After

Here's a few of the mess of copper that was in place before feeding the kitchen, laundry and outside garden faucet.

Awkward positioning of washer and dryer.

And after. I bought a cheap sink for now which may be permanent or I may possibly make some fancier cabinets in the future with built in sink. For now, it's really nice to have a sink in the laundry room now.

New configuration with sink.

Cleaned up pipes, now PEX.

Now to fix the electrical...

finished up the wall framing.

Clearing out

Once I moved everything out of the kitchen area, and made a makeshift kitchen area where my nook lived, I was ready to start tearing out the rest of the kitchen cabinets and sink.

Temp "kitchen"

I still had the floor to finish before the plumber came by to re-plumb the kitchen sink as it would be moving to a more central location right under the window, and also moving the laundry hookups as I wanted to rearrange the laundry room below.

Initial destruction

Mouse remnants from when the house was infested.

One heavy sink

In order to pull the sink cabinet I shut off the water and cut the pipes. After pulling out the sink I went downstairs and cut back the copper pipes even more to get them out of the way and capped them. With them gone I was then able to finish up the necessary flooring.

Capped pipes with some shark-bites.

Finishing up the strengthening the floor.

Waste pipes exposed, ready for altering.