Road closed

We’ve found many revealing things about our house by trying to renovate a couple of rooms (more than we ever wanted to know, to tell the truth.)  Even though we didn’t plan on doing all this stuff, it’s good to get things taken care of. 

Here we have the road closed off just for us so they can put in a new sewer line.  The old one was made of clay and had several breaks in it and it it was partly disconnected out in the street.  

 

That hole by our house is over 7 feet deep.  Here’s one of the backhoes they used to dig up the street.

  

Here’s the dumpster that has become a permanent fixture in our driveway.  They’ve already dumped it 3 times.  Ian has the quite the formidable crowbar skills.

 

Here is our gutted basement family room.  Arden pulled off an amazing bit of engineering to raise the height of the downstairs entrance.

One of the surprises after we pulled down all the ceiling tiles were the 6 structurally unsound joists.  Here’s 2 that they had notched to put in some lights.  Here’s one they cut into for a heating duct that has started to split.

Here is one of 2 joists that someone inexplicably cut straight up into, and then decided they better patch them with some 2x4’s.

  

We are glad to have them fixed before our floor caves in.  What a relief!