BurningbirdWe came, we saw houses. Jessica Drive was an amazing lot. We loved it. But the house had a lot wrong with it—far more than we wanted to deal with. The home we’re thinking of making an offer for is linked to this posting. The owners obviously loved the home, and took exceptional care of […]
Damn it, it’s time to start writing again, before I get too old and feeble and forget how. Sorry, still no comments. Last time I had them, it didn’t end well. Hopefully discussions on Facebook and Twitter will be sufficient. Or the new WT.Social, from Wikipedia’s own Jimmy Wales. I’m ambivalent about it, but if […]
The check valve came through. We had 2.47 inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Before the check valve, we would have been toast. We faced the very real possibility of damaging sewer backup into the main floor of our house. Last night, not a whimper from the pipes. No bubbling toilets. No clang […]
Today will be the first test of the specially engineered duck billed check valve designed specifically for our lateral sewer line. The O’Fallon Sewer folks really came through for us, being able to find a company who was willing to create something specifically for our odd and trying situation. Our lateral sewer opens directly into […]
Some of you might remember about our problems with our sewer connection. Well, now we’re literally caught between two public utilities and the source of meetings between two communities. Public Water District #2 has long planned on moving their force main to a new system, and dump into brand new gravity main north of us. […]