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August 22, 2004 at 09:58 am

Plumbing update...

Thank God, it wasn’t worse… We found out that most of our corroding/clogging actually was within our house’s walls. So, instead of tearing out our front porch (most of which I had already tore out in preparation for the plumbers) and front yard, all the plumbers had to do was jackhammer a corner of our basement and fix some old pipes. (Oh, and just to be clear, the portion of the porch I tore out was already rotted due to a little termite problem we have — so it had to come out anyway.)

The plumbers were able to complete their work in one day, replacing one of our main stacks, redoing our underground pipes, and laying new concrete for our basement floor. And all of this work actually saved us some money, so that is great. It definitely could have been worse.

One thing we found out in the process, though, was that our main line doesn’t actually go through the yard, but straight down our driveway… This is bad news if the line ever does break, as they would have to completely jackhammer the driveway.

Also, we found out that our home warranty company is being stubborn about covering this plumbing work. Originally, the work was to be done outside of the house — they do not cover anything outside of the house. Since all of the work ended up being done inside of the house, though, they should cover it right? Well, according to them, they will cover broken pipes, but not corroded and clogged pipes. This just doesn’t seem right. I am going to keep on them until I get a good answer for all of this.

It’s nice to be able to take showers and go to the bathroom without raw sewage coming up in our basement everytime. Now all I have to do is clean it all up.

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