Ah, the upstairs and the roof

The Day After

Short summary of yesterday.
Only one "problem" yesterday. The heating system didn't show up so they couldnt install the stairs. (It is easier to install without them in.) So we couldn't check out the upstairs since no one wanted to go up their rickety ladder.

Supposedly the "shingles" should have been done today for the roof. Maybe tommorrow.

All in a days work

Bye Bye Goo

I finished sucking up the goo this morning. It is still wet and dirty, but you can, at least theoretically, walk in there with normal shoes.

I also got suprised with yet some more costs related to the digging and pumping etc. BooHoo!

I am getting a bit excited for tommorrow. I have to be at the house site at 06:30. I will probably arrive a little earlier to check things over. Anyway, I hope it doesn't rain from now until the next few days.

Wish me luck.

Help, the cellar has been slimed

Well, some of the water is out of the cellar. What was left was a mucky, muddy slime of water and dirt. The pump couldn't seem to pump this heavy water out of the cellar. (I think the pump was too weak.) We started cleaning up with a mop and worried it would take forever. One of our new neighbors walked by and offered us their industrial (wet/dry) vacuum to use. It works. We didn't quite finish it today, but kept up until hunger hit is in the evening. I will take tommorrow off of work as well and finish sucking up the goo.

Pump it up

I bought a pump today to pump the leftover rain water out of the cellar. The normal pumps didn't seem like they would do it. The help at this particular hardware store was clueless and had no ideas. A guy standing next to me said which pump I could use (it pumps down to 1mm).

Eventually I got the pump going. Went off to the promised land (McDonalds) as promised to the little one.

In the afternoon, I left the little one at the neighbors and went to check on my pump. It was off but a good quantity of water had been pumped out. I set it up again and went home.

Finishing up the cellar

Well it seems to have worked out between today and yesterday. The utility connections are all there and there is earth around the house.

Now I just need to figure out a way to get the rain water and mud out of the cellar.

I think the cellar is finished

Dropped by today (without my camera) and the cellar looks finished. The earth needed to be filled in around the cellar, as well today but this didn't happen. I hope this happpens tommorrow. Now the filling needs to be coordinated exactly with the re-digging of the hole for the utilities.

Cellar not yet finished

Apparantly the cellar is not yet finished. The plan is to finish up tommorrow. I also received written confirmation of the delivery date.

New delivery date recieved

We found out verbally the new delivery date, 11 April 2006. I just hope we can get everything we need to have done finished by then. (1. Cellar completed: planned completion 04 April 2006 2. Fill in with earth: planned 05 April 2006 3. Dig holes for utilities: planned 06 April 2006. 4. Install utility wires and refill: planned 07/10 April)

It's going to be tight.