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So the boiler continued chugging away through the overnight cold snap and the house is warm. But when I got up this morning we had no water. Supposedly we could still flush the toilets because they haven't yet opened up the sewer drain, but only once because there is no water coming in.
Turns out they left the water intake pipe exposed at the bottom of the giant hole last night, and when the temperature plummeted to near zero the pipe froze. They are thawing it out now. *sigh*
After working all day yesterday they got the problem section of pipe uncovered and "corrected the pitch" to the point where they now believe they can get the entire sewer liner through the pipe from inside the house. To make that easier, I managed to open up the side door on the stairs to the basement, which we have not used for at least 25 years. There is no longer a doorknob on it (at least on the inside) but I managed to locate the key to the lock. The fun part was moving all the stuff piled against the unused door. But that area needed a little cleaning out anyway.
This job is clearly taking longer than anticipated, but fortunately they aren't charging us by the hour. I'm getting antsy sitting here waiting for another essential service to come back on, so I routed Richard out of bed and am heading off to Cub to pick up my prescriptions and a few groceries. This is all very draining (no pun intended)
Turns out they left the water intake pipe exposed at the bottom of the giant hole last night, and when the temperature plummeted to near zero the pipe froze. They are thawing it out now. *sigh*
After working all day yesterday they got the problem section of pipe uncovered and "corrected the pitch" to the point where they now believe they can get the entire sewer liner through the pipe from inside the house. To make that easier, I managed to open up the side door on the stairs to the basement, which we have not used for at least 25 years. There is no longer a doorknob on it (at least on the inside) but I managed to locate the key to the lock. The fun part was moving all the stuff piled against the unused door. But that area needed a little cleaning out anyway.
This job is clearly taking longer than anticipated, but fortunately they aren't charging us by the hour. I'm getting antsy sitting here waiting for another essential service to come back on, so I routed Richard out of bed and am heading off to Cub to pick up my prescriptions and a few groceries. This is all very draining (no pun intended)
