I haven’t posted for a few days. The rain and heat and delays have kept progress to a minimum. But the sewer guys finally showed up on Wednesday and put in the sewer line. Actually, it was a sewer guy and gal…. go figure.
Here is how you put a new sewer line into a new house. First, you start by destroying the street.
Then, you take your back hoe and dig a looooong hole right up to the house.
Some of the work is done by hand, like spreading the gravel on top of the pipe. Here is a photo of everybody hard at work.
Even the detail cop loves work… he can watch people do it for hours.
Check out this long hole!
Wow! “Flush twice… its a long way to the …. uh…. street”.
They managed to get the sewer pipe into the basement under the footings.
We were not so lucky with the water. They ran into ledge under the footings where the water comes in so they had to go through the wall. You can just barely see the water pipe at the right side of the photo. Here’s a closeup.
I have been assured that this will not leak when they are done. The hole is sealed with hydraulic cement on the outside.
Here is a closeup of our new sewer connection.
Wow! pretty exiting.
OK. “Get a life” Still…..
Oh, and BTW, we had lumber on the ground too.
Soon a house will start going up. I think that things are going to start happening faster now, so stay tuned.