Home Improvements : Sewage Rerouted
The plumber came out yesterday morning and did his thing to fix our basement sewage problem.
When I arrived home, after the bank incident, I took a trip down to the scary basement to see the fine workmanship.
Eh, it looks alright.
He tucked the new pipe real high and tight among the floor joists, which was nice, and he connected to the main sewer line in a convenient spot — all he had to do was unscrew a cap on the cast iron pipe to make the connection so I don’t think they’ll be raising the estimate any either.
Speaking of the estimate, I think they should actually lower it.
See, what is blatantly apparent to me is that they went out of their way to unnecessarily remove as much copper piping as possible — all the way up to the kitchen sink trap. They then replaced it all with plastic.
Hmmm, think that has something to do with the fact that scrap copper commands over $3.50 per pound these days?
Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, we’ll be out of town this weekend for a wedding, so the sludge clean up will have to be put off for another week.
Hopefully, by then, the standing water will have evaporated and clean-up will be less of a project…
