Our plumbing is very concentrated in one corner of the house and our particular design doesn’t allow space for future expansion. Any remodeling like that will need to be fairly extensive and we’d simply fold plumbing changes in with everything else.

Thanks for your comments on the pictures and work.

Another reason to put a clean out, at least for me, is to continue a run for a short distance, then put a clean-out, so that if you need future expansion, you simply cut the clean-out off, with enough straight pipe on each side of the cut to re-use the pieces at least one more time, extend the run with a coupling to connect the new and old pipe, then glue the old cleanout back on the new end of the run.

Looks like good work and good pictures.

Just a comment on California, I hate when governments make you completely finish a building before being able to use it. It’s your property, your money to build the property, and it would save you a large amount of time and money if you were able to live where you work instead of driving home every day to another location. More regulation always helps.

@Dy – As far as I know, I don’t need clean-outs in the lines that you see here. I’ll probably put in a clean-out somewhere in the 2nd story where the 2″ vent continues up from the main waste stack. We do have 3 different clean-outs outside that run to the pipes in the slab and we can always pull a toilet and run a clean-out from there. Also, since the smallest waste lines are 2″, I really don’t think we’ll ever have problems with clogs.

Since I don’t know how long it’ll take me to do the rest of the work, I’m giving out a move-in date of Christmas 2008. In California (at least Nevada County) we pretty much have to be done in order to move in. All bathrooms finished, all drywall up, kitchen complete, etc. Unfortunately, we can’t just finish a part of the house and live there while working on the rest.

Are there no clean-outs in there? I didn’t know if you’d opted not to put them in, or if you just didn’t want to put them there, where they’ll have soffits over them. (And who knew there were SO many choices about how to run pipe, huh? Although it’s pretty fascinating and kind of fun once you get started.)

It’s looking so great. SO great. Do you have an ETA on getting a cert. of occupancy? (Is that what they’re called in CA? The little paper that says you can move in now.)