Catching Up on Day 3

And we are done...with this part.

The company that we hired finished up late Wednesday afternoon. They had brought an extra guy to work with them in hopes that everything would go faster since our city inspectors like to screw with people or have something personal against our property (seriously, I'm beginning to think there's an ordinance just for us. Discussing the drama we went through with the garage might make for an interesting post someday). Anyhoo, here's what Wednesday ended with...

That pipe coming up is one of four access points that will allow our system to be flushed out or have maintenance performed on it if necessary. This is in the "new" room...the dirty wall is our old exterior wall. Since there is old drain tile all along that wall that got replaced with new stuff. It might seem like overkill but once you have had water in your basement I don't know if you can ever be overcautious!

This is the wall/corner that had been causing us so many problems. Once everything is dry we can get started cleaning up and scrubbing the walls. Even though drywall is going back up I don't want all that mold/mildew on the walls.

Logan leaving his mark on the floor
Ethan leaving his hand prints in the basement forever
Why not? If you have wet cement, how can you possibly resist putting hand prints in it?

A while ago I stated, "This is not the most inconvenient project we have done." I'd like to retract that statement for consideration. Stay tuned...I'll explain why this weekend. It might move into 1st place.