305 Argo – Form Boards are Up

The form boards are up at 305 Argo.

Tomorrow the plumbers arrive to begin what we call the rough-in — this is
the phase where every pipe that lives inside the foundation gets installed
before a single yard of concrete is poured. Once the slab goes down, these
pipes are there forever. You don’t get a second chance at them.

The primary work is drain lines — the pipes that carry waste away from every
fixture in the home. But there’s one detail on this job that’s worth
explaining: the kitchen island.

Most people don’t think about how water gets to a kitchen island until
they’re standing in a finished home wondering why there’s a pipe dropping
from the ceiling or running across the floor. The answer is that somebody
didn’t plan for it correctly at the foundation stage. On this home, we’re
running what’s called a loop — a supply line installed now, in the
foundation, that services the island sink from below. Clean. Invisible.
The right way.

This is the kind of decision that gets made at rough-in and never thought
about again. Or it doesn’t get made, and someone figures it out later in a
way that’s visible, expensive, or both.

More updates as the slab approaches.