Day 75-80

The plumbing issue ended up being a bigger deal than we had originally thought. To fix the problem we had to replace the sewer line from the garage to the house (probably 60 feet or so of pipe). It’s a really good thing I didn’t work on the garden on that side of the house as I had planned! I am a little concerned about my bamboo, but they tied it back and seemed to be somewhat careful with it. If there’s anything I’ve learned during this remodel project it’s that you might as well say goodbye to all of your plants. I even moved several to get them at least four or five feet away from the site and still the workers lay materials on top of them or walk on them. Apparently they are plant-blind. Enough with the plants. Here are photos of the pipe project (yes, that's water in the first two photos).

In other news, Lazaro and Arturo haven’t worked at our site in over a week. I think our contractor is playing us because on Friday he asked me if the siding had arrived (how would he know since he’s never on site). I told him it hadn’t and he said it was a good thing he didn’t send Lazaro over that day, but that he’d be there to work on the siding on Monday. On Monday (this morning) I called him at 8:30 to tell him the siding arrived. He then called Brad sometime in the afternoon and told him Lazaro wasn’t going to be over today because the siding had just arrived. Interesting. I would rather be told someone’s not going to show up instead of being told a fib. Hopefully we’ll see Lazaro tomorrow.

Now for some bad news. We had our first inspection today and we didn’t pass. It was a site inspection and the only reason we didn’t pass was because the roof of the garage is too close to the property line. David said he’s going to fight the issue since the roof should be grandfathered in. If we lose the fight we have to cut part of the roof off. I don’t fully understand it, but it sounds ridiculous. Hopefully David will make us proud and make it so we don’t have to do such a dumb thing. Considering one inspector already passed the site plans it doesn’t make sense that our plan would fail in person. I predict much inspection drama coming our way…