Roughly Plumbed

I've always wondered why the initial laying of the pipes and other necessary plumbing throughout the house is called the "rough plumbing".  Far from rough, it's actually a pretty exacting process that lays out and attaches all of the pipes that will bring clean water to all sinks, tubs, showers, toilets and appliances throughout the house, and connects all of the soil and other pipes that will remove waste and used water from the home to the town sewer lines.  The rough plumbing is now largely done at Glenlochan and even to my untutored eye it looks.....well......okay, I cannot say it looks fantastic.  Although I'm quite sure that it is a superb plumbing install, quite honestly, it looks just like a bunch of pipes in between the studs throughout the house.  But, because the plumbing is the first of the mechanicals to be installed on the project, it is very energizing in concept even if it's not exciting visually. Here's a few shots of our pipes:

 

Soil pipes!

 

 As I said, not very visually exciting, but beautiful to us.  Can you tell we're proud of our pipes?