Kyle and I have been making steady progress on his basement renovation project, working together most Saturdays for the last several months. Today we made a big push and relocated the water heater from its temporary position to its final location in the new mechanical room next to the heat pump that replaced the old gas-fired furnace. That was the easy part. Much more time consuming was installing the hot and cold water pipes connecting the kitchen, bathroom, laundry room and outside water spigots to the water heater and tying these into the pipes delivering water to the first floor. All of this work required us to turn off water to the house and we were under serious time pressure to get it restored for Kyle’s tenant by 5pm when she had planned to shower and start laundry. It took a total of ten hours to complete the work and unfortunately we did not finish until 8pm.