Since I have not posted in awhile, I decided to encapsulate this one with innuendo and debauchery. No sir, we will not have the usual clinical descriptives of progress but a stress releasing play on the joys of home ownership.
This past week was rocking when I got wood on Monday. It was even better when that wood got erected into a framed basement, kitchen half-wall, and other projects. Then the guys dug the huge - 36"x42"x60" - holes for the enlargement of the basement windows. I even loaded up the truck that is on loan from my dad and hauled a bunch of stuff to the scrap yard. Then it all came screeching to a halt.
As you know, I have been partying with the zany 'Poo-Poo Pipe' which lead to giving the house a colonoscopy after performing invasive surgery. Needless to say, the house looks like a f---ing (Steph censor in effect) disaster. There are three gaping channels that were jackhammered open to reveal clogged and disintegrated pipes partnered with giant piles of soil. I would post a picture but I assure you - it does not do justice to the situation.
The good news is that the scoping of the remaining pipe revealed healthy innards. The bad is that, because the pipe appears to have broken some time ago, all of the waste was just going into the soil under the concrete of the basement floor. The image of that is much worse than it really was but the side effect was that it eroded a few inches of soil from beneath a large portion of the basement floor. This means that we will either have to jackhammer a larger portion up to re-pour the floor or find another method to fix the gap issue. We'll know more in a couple of days.
Indiana Jones never had an adventure like this but mine is still better than the last movie. For sure!
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oh dear.
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