June 20th, 2007
June 20th-sigh : (
Tough day…Tough day…
but tomorrow is another day–and Troy will be home
So another little issue (other than our crummy chimneys)…completely unrelated to our renovation has arisen. We are having some problems with the drain field on our septic system. No pictures…trust me, it is not a pretty sight!!
Dave was here today to finish up the grading around the house, and he agreed to dig around with his Kabota a little to see why we have wet spots in the back behind the pool and by the firepit. We actually noticed this little problem last year, but initially thought it was related to the leak in the pool (but as it turns out we fixed the leak and there were still wet spots) So we kinda ignored it this winter–‘cuz who can see a wet spot here in the winter anyway
Anyway…we can no longer ignore this issue for a couple of reasons–one is that it turns out the prior owners poured concrete patio over two of the lines–which is kinda of a No-No–DUH! And it was our plan to enlarge that patio in our new design–So we need to figure out what to do about that. And OH YAH–we have a bubbling geyser by the firepit.
So I had Dave dig up the ends of four of the eight lines in our field…it would appear that one of the four is dealing with the majority of the fluid from our system. Now anyone who knows anything about Septic systems (which would be me now–not that I EVER wanted to know ANY of this!) would know that a very important concept in septic design is that the lines need to have equal distribution. So the valves are open as we can see some fluid out of all of them, but there is something else causing problems–blockage or lord knows what!
I ordered 12 yards of 1 1/2" gravel (spec–which means washed in gravel lingo
) from Cadman to be delivered tomorrow (between 10 and 12) so that when we do get this figured out we can fill the trenches and bury the lines properly (which for the record–was NOT done the first time) Probably the holes are starting to plug in the leech lines..
So tomorrow we dig some more–
The window guys got the 6 windows in our master and the bonus room installed today–YIKES! These were without a doubt the toughest 2 rooms to deal with in terms of "access" to the windows to do the work–Hmmm! They managed just fine though–so tomorrow they start to deal with the chimneys (they got the scaffolding delivered today) and hopefully get some siding installed in the back.
It was very warm today–I thought anyway–but I suppose it was better than rain.
