My friend Makelle's Dad is a plumber and came and looked at everything for us on Monday and it looks like we have more work than we thought. The genius that lived here before us did some poor plumbing (what a surprise!). It is definitely not up to code so he is going to help us get there. Basically the plumbing from our laundry room goes outside, under the deck, alongside the house and into the kitchen/bathroom to drain. There are some bizarre angles and its amazing the water even flows correctly! So we had to rip the deck up to expose the plumbing, we are going to have to jack hammer out the concrete floor in the kitchen/bath to expose all the piping etc. Then Gary (Makelle's Dad) is going to come and re-route the plumbing to the correct location. Then we'll repour concrete and let it cure. Then our friend Austin will come in and re-frame everything. Then Gary will have to come back and do the finishing plumbing around the framing. Whew. Aren't you exhausted just thinking about it? I am. We're hoping to get the concrete removed this weekend so Gary can come back first thing next week and we'll be able to get Austin out here by the following weekend. I am very optimistically hoping we might be back into our house by the 2nd week of May. Keep your fingers crossed. Not everything would be done by then I don't think, but we'd probably have running water at least.
The plumbing is costing us a LOT more than we thought it would, even though we are getting an amazing deal from Gary. We just didn't know that we'd have to worry about all this external plumbing. Big surprise! I just have to keep thinking how great it will all be when its all done.
So just an FYI, we are selling our portable dishwasher for $200 if you know anyone who is interested. It's such an awesome solution if you don't have room for a built in one. And they sell for about $350 new. I will be thrilled when we have a built in one soon! Hooray! We will also be selling our fridge, but we're not quite there yet, since we have to have a new fridge to transfer all our food into.
All else is well. We are VERY excited for nice Spring weather this weekend. I have 3 birthdays to go to on Saturday, which is crazy. School is plugging along also!
Let me know if you know anyone who might want that dishwasher :)
Lauren
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Wow! What a mess. Thank goodness for friends that can do these things huh? But still...what a pain. Hope it all goes smoothly and you're back in your house soon.
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