Plumbing!! Yes, you've read this correctly. We had more 1950's clay pipes that needed to be replaced. For almost a month now we haven't been able to do laundry, wash dishes or cook really at our house. Talk about a major inconvenience. But, with Ryan in school and finishing up the semester we didn't have time until now to trench out the yard and repair the 'ole plumbing.
This is what was clogging up our piping... I know it looks like... well disgusting. However, its just mostly tree and plant roots.
What all the pipes looked like upon removal...
What all the pipes are suppose to look like. Hence our problem.
Ryan, Joe and myself spent the entire day digging ditches (maybe the boys did a little more digging than me.. but I still helped!!) around the house in preparation for laying the new PVC piping.
And of course Jona was out supervising!
I'm really happy my mom was in town to hang with Jona during the day and think my dad picked a good weekend not to come into town and visit..hehe. Fingers crossed that we can fire up the washer tonight and getting started on the heaping mound of clothes.
Now that we've replaced all the outdoor plumbing and since the indoor plumbing was replaced a few years before we bought the house we are all set with plumbing for now. And although we think our plumber Norm is a great guy I think we can all agree that we don't need to see him for a while. Now, onto our next home project.. killing our sand-spur infested front yard and getting started on our horse-shoe drive way! Yay for more parking space!
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