House Stuff Continues
Aug. 24th, 2022 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyOr not...
Pool repairs were delayed, although the guys did appear again this morning to start on laying the new tiles. I informed the pool company owner that my insurance is requiring pictures of an operable pool by Sept 5th. He assures me they should be done by then.
And now there's a 15ft tunnel under my house for a sewer line repair. The images below are of the cast iron pipe that was removed between my laundry & kitchen and the gigantic GASH running through it that used to be the bottom of the pipe. The other picture is the mound of dirt in my garage that it took to get that much pipe pulled out and replaced.
I'm giving them the go-ahead to replace all of it. That's about 15ft of digging pictured. They have to do about 75ft total for the full replacement. It's a VERY good thing I know plumbers and diggers that feel sorry for me having to replace my sewer before I've made my first mortgage payment.
Needless to say, the housewarming will be delayed.
Pool repairs were delayed, although the guys did appear again this morning to start on laying the new tiles. I informed the pool company owner that my insurance is requiring pictures of an operable pool by Sept 5th. He assures me they should be done by then.
And now there's a 15ft tunnel under my house for a sewer line repair. The images below are of the cast iron pipe that was removed between my laundry & kitchen and the gigantic GASH running through it that used to be the bottom of the pipe. The other picture is the mound of dirt in my garage that it took to get that much pipe pulled out and replaced.
I'm giving them the go-ahead to replace all of it. That's about 15ft of digging pictured. They have to do about 75ft total for the full replacement. It's a VERY good thing I know plumbers and diggers that feel sorry for me having to replace my sewer before I've made my first mortgage payment.
Needless to say, the housewarming will be delayed.
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Date: 2022-08-25 11:00 am (UTC)Cast iron ?! Seriously, who the heck ever thought making sewage pipes out of the most rustable material known to man, was a good idea?
I mean... humans have been making fired glazed pottery pipes for about as long as we've been making pipes, and then some idiots around the turn of the century decided to start making cast iron, or even wooden pipes... and it's not as if it was even cheaper. (90% of the cost of plumbing and sewage pipes is the digging, as you know).
Oh well, at least all the disruption will be over and done relatively quickly by the sound of it.
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Date: 2022-08-25 12:28 pm (UTC)The house was sold "as-is" and I knew from the inspection there was cast iron there. I was just hoping that would be a 3-5 year later project, not a before-the-first-mortgage-payment project like the pool.
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Date: 2022-08-25 02:50 pm (UTC)Commiserations on that, and yeah... cast iron generally has a 5-10 year life span, if you don't get a lot of ground penetrating cold or nobody puts anything too acidic or salty in the waste water.
Which is a hell of lot less than glazed pottery, I mean, there's places out in the middle east that are still using mesopotamian piping from about 4,000 years ago! Here, London still uses Roman sewer pipes in places.