June 21, 2009
Ike Recovery #9
Plumbing! Yes citizens, It's plumbing! It's the latest rage! It's the newest thing to hit Rome! It pipes water from one place to another!
This is the sewer pipe, running from the house...
...into the ground...
...passes two cleanouts...
...to the street...
...to the sewer line.
Fresh water comes from the meter...
...and goes under the driveway
to.... ?
Hopefully I'll get some images of that before it is covered by the ground. Check back later!
June 16, 2009
Ike Recovery#8
To paraphrase a mythical Scottish Starship Engineer: "Admiral!, there be pilings here!"
June 12, 2009
Ike Recovery #7
The open pit at the house seems to be an old cesspit or septic tank:
The contractor had put down red paint showing the corners of the house:
June 05, 2009
Ike Recovery #6
Dirt work was completed at the house. The next step is pilings and the concrete slab.
After walking around the site - now officially "The Site", no longer "The Lot" previously called "The Wreck" and previously called "The House" I discovered this:
The top of some sort of box, made of concrete that was buried in the ground caved in, and filled wth water. I'm not clear what this box did - perhaps a grease trap? a cistern? I may investigate it more this weekend to see if I can figure out what it was.