spiralngphoenix

[A basket filled with tools and a water bottle sits on the roof of the house. A coiled hose lays on the straw next to it.]

Time for plumbing!

… okay, this was, like, two months ago. Maybe three? There was a Battlemoor in there, I know that. ANYWAY.

Having succesfully moved a water tank onto the roof, the next step was to run a hose down to the kitchen. Which meant putting a hole in the roof, something which should never be taken lightly. In this case, though, we were stuck with it.

A hole right … THERE.

[The faucet at the bottom of a big water tank, which is sitting on the roof of the cargo container. Also on the roof is a whole bunch of straw.]

Now I just need to stick the fancy hole-drilling bit in my cordless drill & then —

[I’m holding the end of the fancy hole-drilling bit to the drill chuck. It’s completely, absolutely too big to fit in there.]

… problem is that the fancy hole-drilling bit big enough for the hose to fit through has a half inch shank. My drill, which is plenty enough for nearly all applications, has a 3/8″ chuck. There are adapters for this! I probably even own one! But it wasn’t anywhere I could find it, so I dug into my various lug wrench & drill bit supplies, & eventually, with some experimentation & a fair amount of cussing, came up with this.

[There’s about five inches of various adapters between the drill end & the drill bit end. I want to say there’s four separate pieces in there? Maybe?]

& of COURSE two of them don’t QUITE fit together properly. There was zero chance of that NOT happening. Fortunately it was close enough that things only slipped apart three or four times in the drilling process, which, when you’re working at this level of ‘hey at least none of it is duct-taped together’, is honestly pretty good.

& hey, at least none of it was duct-taped together!

(it honestly might’ve worked better if I’d duct-taped it together)

[The entire process is attached to the drill, now, and is partway through drilling a hole about an inch and a half across in the cargo container’s roof.]

After all that, the actual drilling part was pretty anticlimactic. I didn’t even need to break out the earplugs. (_Should_ I have broken out the earplugs? I mean, obviously, yes,)

[There’s a nice hole in the roof, about an inch and a half across.]

Now, the easy part!

[There’s a lovely white garden hose stuck through the hole. Of course, this leaves a lot of hole still open.]

Now, what to do with the REST of that hole … ahh yes, cheat.

[A stack of various sizes & colors of rubber washer have been wrapped around the hose, and are blocking most of the hole.]

Then I dumped half a tube of caulk over the lot of it, the end.

[The inside of the cargo container. A lovely white garden hose hangs from the ceiling, falling in graceful spirals. There is absolutely some sunlight also coming down through the hole.]

It is SO nice to have running water over there, y’all. Yes, even though it’s only cold water. Half a step at a time!

I do need to dump more caulk around that hole in the roof, though. Pretty sure the other half of that tube is around here somewhere …

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