Walls all done, plumbing moves all done, starting soffets

I finished putting up the rest of the walls while theresa was away this weekend. Yesterday I also finished moving the cold water pipe for the outside spicket. Turns out we must have left the faucet off with water in it over the winter, because the shut off valve was busted. So I had to replace that also.

I had a contrator come out to give an estimate on how much it would cost to move the gas pipe I wanted moved.... he said he could do it in one hour and it would be $400 ... holy cow. So I went to home depot and picked up the $20 worth of parts and I'll hopefully do that today. With any luck, the house will still be standing tomorrow.

Here are the water pipes I had to move. Before, they ran under the beam, now they run through it. I'll have to have an access panel through the drywall to get to the valve.

Here is the beginning of the soffet around the hvac. This is a 6' run, the rest will be 2" higher and run the rest of the length of the basement. At first, I was planning to go the lower height all the way across instead of just the 6' so it would look uniform, but then I began thinking with the low ceiling height every inch would be nice to have.

This is the wine closet. It will be 5'x5'. You can see there is still a flex duct hanging down that needs to be moved closer to the I-beam and then soffeted in.

Here is the one run of flex duct that I extended and moved. It was actually extremely easy to do and only cost about $5 (not including tools).