Better yet... Can we bury @kdebello 's dental surgeon?Can we come over and bury a time capsule?
I'm sure there is a sense of relief that this is coming to an end, congratulations. Did they dig up the old pipe and figure out where the problem was?
Can we come over and bury a time capsule?
Needs to go under the floor,lol. I can help you ;>)You could always keep it in the house.
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The consensus from the neighborhood contractors, who did the heavy lifting on this, is that because the pipe is laying on ledge-rock, it still hasn't thawed. Think gigantic ice cube. Just talked to a neighbor who can't get grass to grow above that same bit of rock. When the rock heats in summer, after the grass has shown some promise, it kills the grass roots from beneath. Ledge rock is a stone m'f*cker, y'all.I'm sure there is a sense of relief that this is coming to an end, congratulations. Did they dig up the old pipe and figure out where the problem was?
when galvanized loses water pressure it gets worse, it scales really bad and decent size flakes break off. The initial blockage could have been ice, then it could have been galvanized flakes after that.it was old.
just a quick recap - the pipe was 3/4" galvanized and 50+ years old - probably had less than a child's pinky for the water to flow.
i'm going to guess that it froze and some "rust" broke away and clogged. as previously mentioned, some of the pipe ran over a rock and was 16" under ground.
It looks like they actually built terraced gardens to get more dirt on top of the pipe.
Need a vid of Jumping the Trench!
I thumbs-upped that, but holy cow! That's horrible. I'm beginning to think home inspections are kinda like going to Starbucks, ordering a frappucino and calling that a colonoscopy. There's almost nothing useful in 'em.So they installed their own pipe and billed us all $11,000 a piece.
Hopefully that makes sean feel a little better
There's no way that an inspection could know though. In my situation the owner did disclose this info in the listing, so I knew going in that this would eventually happen.I thumbs-upped that, but holy cow! That's horrible. I'm beginning to think home inspections are kinda like going to Starbucks, ordering a frappucino and calling that a colonoscopy. There's almost nothing useful in 'em.
I'm beginning to think home inspections are kinda like going to Starbucks, ordering a frappucino and calling that a colonoscopy. There's almost nothing useful in 'em.
I owned 1/62 of three one acre plots of land in Towaco
How does one come to own 1/62 of a plot of land?