Lot's of Noise Today

As predicted, there was light rain on and off throughout the night. By day break, it had stopped, but continued to mist throughout the day. Tonight, the clouds are supposed to move out of the area. The forecast is for no rain for the next several days with clear, sunny skies. Good weather to cure concrete.

"Concrete" Mike's crew of two arrived just after day break and began removing the foundation wall forms. It appears they got most, if not all of the forms broken away from the new walls, but they still need to load up the panels and haul them off. Maybe tomorrow. "Our" Mike showed up and said the concrete looks good to him. Our architect (Tyler) warned me that the building footprints will look small once the foundations are in place. He was correct.

John and Tim (HVAC) arrived and continued in the basement on the water systems. When John left for the day, he told T that he expected to complete the domestic hot water system tomorrow.

The big event of the day was the return of Vern's crew (outdoor plumbing) to begin running our new incoming domestic water line. We will abandon the existing 1" lead line and commission a 1-1/2" copper line. They dug one hole in our yard down to the shutoff valve while chiseling out a "window" in the stone foundation of our basement. The cover to the shutoff valve in the yard was buried about 8" under the lawn surface, between the sidewalk and the street. Excavation down to the valve itself revealed that the ball valve was only about one-half open. Probably has been that way for decades. They then proceeded to bore a hole from the basement "window" to the hole at the street using a pneumatic "mole". They jack hammered holes on both sides of the street. The one on our side was to expose a natural gas line and another City water line. The hole on the other side of the street is where the actual tie-in to another City water main will be made. The entire process should be completed tomorrow and will represent the last major infrastructure upgrade mandated by the City.

Chiseling the "window" in stone foundation

New Copper Water Line

The Mole and the old lead line

Between the jackhammers in the street, the chiseling, drilling and hammering in the basement and the pounding in the backyard, it was a very noisy and nerve rattling day. But, T is home after almost three weeks absence. I have missed her.