Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Renovation, Part 5

In Part 4 we saw a ditch being dug under the new walkway near the septic tank. Well, here's the pipe in its full glory:
We occasionally have problems with the drain and we have to get a plumber to visit to clear a clog. Whoever built this house didn't think to have any cleanouts on the line. The plumbers would have to remove a toilet to get to the pipe to shove their auger down. One plumber suggested that we could have a two-way cleanout installed for about the cost of two visits that involve toilet removal. We had concrete over the pipe so that would have been hard to install.

Well, all that concrete was removed so we added this little improvement to our project. A plumber came and installed the cleanout.
With any luck we won't have to use it. But it's nice to know we have the ability to clean the lines without the cost of dismantling a toilet.

Things were buried

Rebar was added to the walk-in-progress



And four days after all this rebar was installed they came and finished framing the front steps

What will the next day bring?

3 comments:

BobbieS53 said...

Oooooh! Home improvement is so much fun!

P-Doobie said...

The suspense is killing me!

Colleen said...

How strange that drains and toilets should lead to a turtle.