...and One Step Backword

so we got some more framing done in the basement this weekend, but that's not to say there weren't some (big) surprises along the way. I swear, this house has more crazy turns than any other I've known.

So plumber Jim (a friend we know through church) stopped by again Saturday morning to clean up some of the plumbing so Chad and I can finish framing. We decided it was best to replace the drain pipe coming into the basement from the kitchen upstairs since it was iron and showing signs of wear. That's not the surprise... What surprised us was when he disconnected the plumbing upstairs in the kitchen, and discovered the whole drain pipe was loose despite being set in a concrete slab in the basement.

So Jim thought we could go down a couple inches and fix it - and that's where the surprise came in. The pipe below the concrete was clogged and rotted so bad, that it was coming loose and Jim was pulling it out in small pieces. The pictures above give you an idea. Disgusting stuff.

So anyway, Jim had to spend the whole day at our house to get it fixed, but we're glad it was discovered now rather than after the basement was finished. The choice was painful but easy. Either pay more now, or pay a lot more (in time and money) later.

Here's a brief description of the 4 pics from Top to bottom: approx 6 foot wide holde in the floor (that's the new PVC pipe in it though), picture of nasty pipe fragment (that came out of MY house???), bottom two are of the finished work (that's my first concrete work, thank you very much...)