Tales From the Box

BRDay+6
Our well made plans have taken into account some of the drainage issues associated with extending underneath your house. On the plans, we had a trench running across the ‘driveway’ to stop water running down the driveway and against the foundations. However the whole area underneath the current front deck poses an issue – not from the average rainfall (which has been far from average of late), but from the ripper summer storms that oft fly through (of which i am somewhat of a fan). So the decision was that a drain needs to be situated right along the front of the house, adjacent to the proposed wall.

A costly but necessary move – and while we are on costly – the plumber has informed us of our water works woes. Currently the water actually comes into the house via the laundry under the slab. While that might sound perfectly normal – the killer punch is our pipes are made from galvanized iron which are about to return to the earth (i.e. rust into the mud) which would then leak into the house. If we leave them like this, the cost to rip up the pipes with the water entry point coming in from the laundry would be huge post renovation. So we have bit the bullet and will have all out waterworks replumbed so that the water entry point is adjacent to our hot water system, directly behind where our sink will be.

However – its more cost to an already over budget project. Awesome…!

So tomorrow (BRDay+7) is Concrete Wednesday – a day for fun and frivolity as the gentle slush of liquid stone gently floods the two areas we are getting re concreted – super!!