{"id":43988,"date":"2025-03-22T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T07:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=43988"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:52:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:52:46","slug":"when-the-rough-in-plumbing-and-electrical-are-things-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/when-the-rough-in-plumbing-and-electrical-are-things-of-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Rough-In Plumbing and Electrical Are Things of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When the rough-in plumbing and electrical are things of beauty. These gorgeous new copper pipes will bring hot water to the stall shower that’s replacing our awkward old tub-shower. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The upstairs bath redo is underway. At last. The rough-in plumbing went in this week, followed by the rough-in electrical.<\/p>\n

They call this work rough — maybe that’s because it’s destined to be hidden away out of sight behind slabs of sheet rock.<\/p>\n

In time, the plumber and the electrician will come back to install the shiny stuff — the chrome faucets, the lighted make-up mirror — and the rough stuff will be forgotten.<\/p>\n

And that’s too bad — because, if you look closely, all those roughed-in pipes and wires are a sight to see.<\/p>\n

You can see the plumber’s mind at work in the copper pipe, in its turns and runs and soldered joints. You can see the electrician’s intent in his swaths of wire and tidy splices nestled in their junction boxes.<\/p>\n

I’m putting together photos of all this action. And when I get ready to leave the house, I’ll hand them over to the new owner so they’ll know they’ve bought a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n

More home improvement projects at “Yay. Our Garden Remodel Is Done. Come Take a Walk.”<\/a>\u00a0 Also “Five Things I Like Best About My Kitchen.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Progress! The plumbing is roughed in and so is the electrical with its swaths of wire. The house was built around 1952, and the studs and subfloor have aged. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The hidden secret behind the sheetrock in my bathroom — the rough-in plumbing and rough-in electrical are things of beauty.\u00a0 Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,221,226],"tags":[2972,2857,43,2973,1188,2974,2975],"class_list":["post-43988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-house-and-garden","category-older-and-older","tag-bath-redo","tag-bath-remodel","tag-beauty","tag-copper-pipes","tag-house","tag-rough-in-electrical","tag-rough-in-plumbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48576,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43988\/revisions\/48576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}