Once the concrete bits were removed, I called in our favorite plumbing outfit and explained what I wanted done. First shot below is the “drawing” I provided with a bit of markup.
A few days after the concrete folks cut the channels, the plumbing team arrived and got to work. They did more than just put in a new run, though–they took out the weird extra tap under the mulberry tree next to the studio building, and the annoying christy box that had many inoperable valves, one of which caused the flood in the studio a few years back. Even more exciting, we discovered when excavating the box that we already do have a pipe running under the pad and into the pool.
Below is a shot of the old box. One valve was for the studio building, as the previous owners installed an RV shower in the exterior side wall, even though there is an indoor shower just a short walk through the kitchen. A second was for the pipe to the pool, and a third was for the old run we’re replacing.
So as part of the new plumbing, they reconnected the pipe out to the pool so that now, instead of running a hose over to the pool if we want to add water, we can just flip the valve. And no more worries about water running over into the studio should that valve have future issues,
By removing the old christy box, we no longer had a way to control the new pool filling option. It was, however, a simple bit of work for them to add a second valve above the main one on the side of the house that once fed the valves in the box, and now would just control the new run. The end result is a much tidier and simpler setup.
