Yesterday, they came and ripped up all the affected carpet. They'll be back later this week or next to remove ALL the carpet from downstairs and start taking down walls. They're going to cut the drywall out around the bottom of ALL the walls of the bathroom, since sewer water flowed under and through them all. This means that we will get the "open concept" we wanted in a house. Ha. We currently have FOUR dehumidifiers running to try to dry the walls out before removal. This makes it hard for me to stay awake downstairs. I have to sleep with white noise at night, and with 4 machines running, it's like sleepy time city, baby.
The start of "the dig." I feel like it's an archaeological site. Like we built on sacred Indian burial ground (a la Poltergeist) and that's why we have such ridiculous things wrong with this house. See all those roots?! This is the neighbors pipe... (and a peek at my new car in the background :)
And we won't even call this a "root".... This is our sewer pipe. With a freaking tree growing out of it. Nice, huh? 5 feet long. Ridiculous.
The neighbors pipe below... which water is SUPPOSED to run through that. Turns out, about 6 units on our side of the street have been replaced as of today. They all looked just as bad or worse than ours. But of course, ours was the only one to back up into the house. On one hand, I'm thankful that we can spare someone else the headache of a sewer back up, but at the same time, damn it, why couldn't someone else be teaching this damn lesson! Gah!
So needless to say, every single damn water pipe on our new property will be clearly marked before I start planting trees. I may even have a locator come out and find the pipes as I'm digging holes for trees. I think I'll give myself a 20 foot radius in which no rooted plants will be planted. That should be good, right?
