Day 7: New Reason This is an Inconvience

We can't do laundry.

I don't know why this didn't occur to either of us during the planning stages. If you jackhammer concrete up to replace something, new concrete is going to be left. New concrete takes time to cure.
Washing machines, the tub they empty into and dryers generally sit along the wall. Drain tile is along the walls and therefore we have we concrete right where our washer, tub, and dryer sit. The dryer we were able to set up because the vent, gas line and other cords were long enough. However, the washing machine is going to have to sit for awhile.

Thank goodness we have such great neighbors. I've been running back and forth between our house this weekend doing laundry.

According to the basement people we should wait THREE weeks before we do much downstairs in terms of putting it back together. According to our friend who is a structural engineer, he said concrete will have 80% of it's strength after one week. I think we'll hook up the washing machine next weekend.