Friday, June 26, 2009

Thank God the DPW is understanding

Well after three trips in two seperate days from Romeo DPW we where finally able to get the water turned on. It's great the DPW guy showed up with 2 or 3 more guys and everybody had a story about how "I remember working on a huge leak here!!" and "We Never thought anyone was going to buy this place!" Nothing like positive reinforcement. So every time they turned the water on we found a new leak!! My favorite one was under the sub-floor where they deceided to bring in the main line above ground in an uninsulated crawl space; genius! Myself and a couple DPW guys where standing there looking for leaks on the pipes themselves untill the silence was broken by a gushing sound comming from under our feet! On to the next project; electricity!


This is the basic setup for out water meter. Ball valves on either side of the meter and a low point drain.

Here is the service entrance and a custom service access.

All new copper, but notice how the previous owner "adjusted" the pipe to the right slightly. If that's not a peek into our future I'm not sure what is.

Tadah!!

Monday, June 15, 2009

Friday, June 12, 2009

We got the house!!!

Over a year of searching and we finally found it! The house we love! 167 Benjamin Street, Romeo, MI

It needs a lot of TLC, we are up for the challenge.

We will be tracking our journey on this blog. We hope you enjoy seeing the progress...

P.S. we take volunteers to help too!! :)