Son of What Lies Beneath

Day two of the basement breakthrough extravaganza has come and gone, and we still have holes in the floor. One of the holes from the other day was made larger, and three new hole have been added.

The plan was for the plumber to come out and dig up the biggest hole (where one end of the black pipe ended) to break out the clay pipe back to where (he hopes) it connects to the black drainage pipe on that side of the basement.


Still digging, still finding clay.
He realized that it was going further than he had expected, and did a few exploratory holes to see just how far the black pipe comes toward where it needs to tie in to the storm drain.

In doing so he realized that when they put the system in they couldn't dig under the hot water tank, and most likely it just stops on one side, and continues on the other. And as we got rid of that tank and replaced it with a tankless, there is no longer a tank in the way.


Digging around the water heater.
So no the plan is for him to return Monday, dig back from the big hole about 4 feet to tie into the black pipe in that area, dig up where the water tank was and make sure that there is continuous black drainage pipe in that corner, and then put in all the drains cleanouts and tie it all into the storm drain.

And while he's doing that we should have a crew upstairs replacing our circa 1968 aluminum single pain windows with some shiny new fiberglass double pain windows.

Hoorah!