Our neighbor had a water line break near her house. However, since her son built the house we now live in, they were so sloppy that they ran her water line under our property.
So, when the line broke, they first tried to find the break by starting in her basement. Their snake got stuck, and they had to dig. Only they had to dig in our yard.
On a rather less pleasant note, the son came to our house and said "the city is coming to dig." Since he said it that way, we believed the city needed to do the work. However, he had actually PRIVATELY contracted with the city to dig. What we thought was a government activity was actually his private contract. Not acceptable, but we're watching the situation right now.
Anyway, they dug. And dug, and dug. The hole is now the size of a minivan, and they couldn't find the water line. They proposed digging under our house, which we refused. Eventually on the second day they found the water line.
The irony? It has been known for a couple of hundred years that our back yard is covering an ancient Roman road. That they know, but they had no clue where a water line was placed just 30 years ago.
Sigh.
Here's a video of the last of the digging.
1 comment:
What a cute little backhoe! Hope they get everything figured out.
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