Some Housework

If you are reading this blog, you pretty much know that our house is on the market. We were coming to an end with the contract with our agent so we decided to take it off the market for now.  Brian and I thought of staying, but we are too excited with the option of moving closer to his work.

We will make a few repairs and then put it back on the market in about 2 months. 

Here is the first of our repairs.  We have had some sewer issues with the house and have been band-aiding the issue for a few years now.  We finally bit the bullet as people would say and invested in a major home repair. 

We had roots growing in one of our pipes which caused it to run slower.  Well, by slower, it actually backed up into our home.  This is when we found out about the issue.  We previously had the pipe snaked, but had to hire someone to dig up the pipe and repair the joints.

This was our front yard on Friday.

I was shocked that one of the tools for the job was a backhoe.  Our yard is torn up.  You can see the pipe poking through in this picture.

One of the culprits.  We had two sections of pipe that needed repair. This looks like a huge hairball, but is actually roots from our tree. Ahhh, nature.  

Our large gaping hole. 

Here's the new pipe.

What our yard looks like under the hay and grass seed. Here's to hoping the Bermuda seed will take quickly. 

It was so sad to see our beautiful grass dug up, but Lenny and Tony at Majestic Plumbing did a fantastic job.  They were out there during a hot summer day and were very pleasant to work with.  Hopefully the grass will grow in quickly so we can put it back on the market.