Sunday, November 15, 2009

Our daddy....our hero!

Cruz showing how he can be on both sides of the cement!

Shawn worked his tail end off all weekend trying to fix a house problem. We have water pooling on our driveway because our driveway wasn't built correct in the first place. The water finds cracks into our house and will/is causing some water damage to our basement. Shawn's solution, FIX IT! He bought a cement grate to catch the collected water in our driveway and he dug up the concrete on our driveway. He has a whole trench system out to the yard, to the back yard, where there is an eventual downslope. Lets just say, major project!!! Poor guy worked in freezing, snowy temperatures both days and unfortunately how home projects go, didn't get as far as he wanted. He is our hero though!!!

The trencher Shawn rented to help dig the trenches. Unfortunately, it didn't make the job as easy as it should have because we have a bunch of power and gas lines right where he needed to dig, so he had to hand dig a lot of it so he wouldn't hit lines!

Cruz checking out the project!

1 comment:

Carrie said...

we too have sewer line that needs to be replaced. unfortunetly it is in the main road....needless to say we will have to get the city involved, close the street, dig 10-16 feet=major mula. frustrating considering it is only at 10 pipe. i guess that is what we take on when we buy...but it is worth it once it is done...and we take the time needed to recuperate from the mental/financial stress of it all.