I would love to know how your grandparents rigged the hot and cold running water
Great Grandpa Bill as I called him was a very resourceful man. He owned a large steam powered sawmill and also a single locomotive and a rail line.
They had a really nice two story house. It sat below a natural spring. The spring water was channeled into a cement reservoir. This gave it pressure to flow into the house. The plumbing system was basically a standard one like houses have today.
One water line was run through a steam boiler then to the house. Water was also run through the kitchen stove which also had a hot water reservoir.
The house also had a carbide light system which was as bright as electric lights.
Also had a battery and generator powered telephone system which ran to his relatives houses.
The house won an award from the “Progressive Farmer” magazine as the most modern rural house in the country.
Gradnpa Bill died in the early 50s and all the children eventually moved away. The house sat abandoned for many years. My Great Uncle actually caught a guy trying to steal the ornate old bath tub.
It finally got to where it was dangerous to go in and was demolished.