Friday afternoon, the crew working on our drain nightmare finished up. Out front you wouldn’t know there was an eight foot deep hole there just the other morning. It just looks like garden again. At the start of the job, we pulled some plants out we’d like to save and hopefully they’ll survive the ordeal, but if they don’t, they don’t. The work had to be done and they had to did where they had to dig. Downstairs the excavation was done adjacent to my painting studio. Shelves and paintings were moved around to make room. I’m going to take advantage of the chaos to reorganize the studio this morning. The cats normally use litter boxes in the basement but while the work was going on, we blocked off the cat door and moved litters upstairs. If you’re a cat owner you know cats are not impressed with change of any kind. I think they’re very happy to have access to the basement again.

The broken clay pipe has been replaced by plastic so now all or very close to all of the drain-work is plastic. There is a new weeping tile system in now as well and hopefully we won’t have anymore drain issues for a long long time.

Aftermath