I mentioned on Facebook that we have had some trouble with our plumbing. I was a smidge inaccurate, we are having trouble with our plumbing AND our air conditioning ducts. Check this out….
This is our a/c return ducts…yep that’s dirty dish water. The bright side, it could have been the other kind of dirty water :) The “funny” thing about that, is that we discovered this particular brand of fun an hour before we were hosting a Christmas party. Oh yeah! It’s a tad stinky….
Moving on….
Mr. OverKill and my Dad attacked the pipes this week. After consulting a couple plumbers, Mr. Ok was told that basically the way to find the leak, is to start punching holes here and there until you find the leak. Mr. Ok said, “Hey, I can do that.” My Dad has been a general contractor for years and years, so he is very knowledgeable about all things construction. Tuesday night, Dad came over and he and Mr. Ok tried to logically deduce where the leak might be….and I prayed.
Thankfully they found the leak in the first hole. Sadly, they did have to cut up a pretty good strip of concrete right along the edge of the house, meaning the leak was in the foundation.… So this is what you see when you step out my door (swept up now of course:).
Here’s the hole and some of the cut away concrete.
And my patio….
Oops, Christmas decoration storage boxes are coated with concrete dust…along with everything else within a 30 foot radius.
My Dad has been such a life saver this week, from bunny cages to plumbing…
I really gotta do something nice for him!
Now, we just have to figure out what to do with that a/c duct… because now it’s starting to cave in on itself. Sigh….