Electricity is provided from a power main running along the back fence of the back yard. A cable connects to the power main through the original electrical box, which is not properly grounded. All of the rooms, including the garage, have electrical outlets, light fixtures, and light switches. The electricity also powers a heating and air conditioning system.
Water is brought into the house from a water main, which runs beneath the easement between the sidewalk and the street. Pipes in the house's foundation, turn upward into the spaces between walls and end with faucets in the kitchen and bathrooms and outside the house, shower heads in the bathrooms, as well as a faucet that provides water to the refrigerator's water dispenser and ice maker.
The water system also includes drainage pipes. In the kitchen, pipes takes used water from the sink and diswasher out of the house and into a sewage pipeline. The drainage pipes in the bathrooms send toilet water, fecal matter, urine, and used sink, bath, and shower water to the same sewage pipes.
Natural gas enters the house through a different pipeline and terminates at my kitchen range and the gas heater. Many rooms and the back patio have gas spigots, but I have never tried to use them.
The house also has AC/heating ducts running through the attic to bring warm or cold air into the house's living spaces.
The house has all the typical spaces one expects to see in a house. The ones listed separately below have some ecological interest apart from being spaces that people use for habitation. The last link, "The Rest", holds the place for the ecologically boring spaces that get dusty and occasionally harbor an insect or spider.
- Roof
- Front Porch
- Attic
- Garage
- Kitchen
- Gardening Room
- Bathrooms
- The Rest
