What Lies Beneath.... Day 2 - Emergency Sewer Hookup

The dump truck left the sand in our driveway last night so it wouldn't freeze in the truck

Caution tape was left around the hole as a warning so hopefully no one would fall in over night! haha... you would hope no one would be that dumb

The guys arrived around 7:45 am and got back to digging. It wasn't long before they were working in the trench.

This is the sewer connection being joined up. The orange line is the gas line so they had to be very careful working around it.

A view from our front window. Sometimes it looked like nothing was happening, but they were all just in the trench so you couldn't see them!

Unfortunately they hit boulders and had to re-route for the water line. They said it was pretty nerve racking pulling out the boulders around the fragile gas line.

The re-route...

Believe it or not... the water and sewer are all connected and the sand is going in!

More sand!

We were truly concerned the job was going to go into Day 3 on Sunday, however by the end of the work day, everything was back up and running! The pipes have to lay exposed until Monday to have an inspector come and sign off on it so we have to leave 1 tap running for probably 48 hours but that is only so our water line doesn't freeze up while it is laying exposed to the elements. After the inspection on Monday the guys will fill in the trenches and the septic tank and we are done! Once the spring & summer hits, Brian and I will have to replace the irrigation lines that were broken and fill any areas that have sunken in from settling once the weather warms up and the ground unfreezes. Normally they would do all this for us (and can still for a price later) but because of the time of year... not much can be done right now! The last scary part will be the bill.The original quote was 2-4k thinking spring time, Friday's quote was 3-5k but since then we added in the water line and a few other little things that needed doing so I think we are going to run about 6k for the job... ugh.... ugh... ugh... but totally worth it. I keep thinking about it and we had no choice, the septic was finished.