We are currently in the process of turning our industrial space into a more functioning winery. One important component in a functioning winery is a wash down station. Last year, when we pressed our harvest in our industrial space, we borrowed our neighbor's running water. It's not that we didn't have running water, the water was not accessible to us.
To solve that problem, we were in communications with Mark and Dan, who installed our HVAC. Planning began last fall and my husband began sourcing the wash down station as well as a sink. This past week was when Mark and Dan had some time to do the work for us.
There was a lot of prep work to be done. The electrical outlet needed to be moved and for that we called on our electrician who came on the day that Mark and Dan were there so they could coordinate where the new location for the outlet should be.
Then, the old plumbing was removed temporarily while Mark and Dan put up the fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) to protect the sheetrock from getting wet. The plywood that can been seen on the left photo is where the washdown station will be located. It was the first time that Mark and Dan put up FRP so I understand that there was some reference to Picasso when Dan was trowelling the glue on the wall.
All of the business end of the plumbing is located in one of the bathrooms. There is a filter plumbed into the line as well as
many shut off valves.
This is how the washdown station and the sink looks like:
The washdown station will allow us to move wine around and clean the kegs and tanks.
Mark and Dan did a fabulous job! Thank you so much!
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