Our builder guy, Les, came the other day to paint our new drain pipe...the last of the exterior post-construction items to be done (until September when then they'll be back to fix our interior cracks/doors etc). They were just going to put up the old drain pipe but nobody could figure out how it went back up once they took it down (?), so they just ordered a new one to install. The basement is all back together, we have a new, smooth sidewalk & we now have an empty storage unit...and a mighty full basement...
When we got back from South Dakota in June, they tore out the entire garage floor and re-poured it. You never saw two people so excited to be able to open a door as Bob and I were when we could finally open the door from our garage to the back yard...it's been a few years since we've been able to use it. It felt like winning the lottery!
Our next big project is trying to coat the garage floor with that professional looking speckly paint stuff but we keep putting it off because the directions sound scary--etching the floor first with acid...lots of warnings about keeping all your parts covered so they don't get eaten away by acid...doesn't sound fun but it's on the list...right after I paint the walls a pretty "Tuscan Sky" blue color (to go with the fancy speckles on the floor)...should be a sight to behold when it's complete. Maybe Bob can have his poker parties out there once it's done......???!
We're relived all the mess and noise is over...but we just saw a sanolet delivered to our neighbor up the street & the tell-tale deep hole in their garage...and our neighbor right across the street just had an engineer at their house...seems they have twisted beams in their basement...yikes...luckily it's over for us but just beginning for them...hopefully the builder won't go out of business before they fix our drywall cracks.......!!!
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