another slab mishap

Today we continued to make progress on the house. The slab, however, has continued to vex us. Today the bobcat was being picked up, and it had a flat tire! The contractor had to repair it before pickup or be charged forit.

Here is the master bedroom closet, newly reframed. We opened up the closet surround as much as possible to get the best access to the space since we have only two closets in the house. We're going to put large sliding doors across it.


This is the beginning of the new bathroom window. The one on the left is being closed up, and the one on the right (just above the stepladder) is new.


The other big event of today was that we had a guy come out with a camera and locator to take look at the sewer pipe and the mystery pipe in the backyard. It's a really cool device - it's like a plumber's snake with a camera on the end. There's also a transmitter which he can read with a device that looks like a metal detector. It tells you exactly where the camera head is and how deep. He marked on the ground with spray paint all the places where roots were blocking the pipe and where it turns. He went all the way out to the city sewer main in the street. We got a VHS and DVD copy on the spot!

Here is a shot of some of the tree roots. We have to decide whether to snake the sewer line out or replace it.


This shot shows where the new pipe we put in joins the old. The new is the black pipe in the foreground. The old is the orange clay pipe in middle.

I found this marking on a stud that was original to the house in 1952. It has a picture of a horse and the words Heney Studs.


Here's the end of the mystery pipe in the backyard. No wonder it was venting water under the house. It was only capped with the ceramic bowl in the picture. The pipe came up in an area of the backyard where water pooled particularly badly.