Day 2 went rather smoothly. By midmorning they had filled in the holes with the drainage tile and the rocks. They also had rerun the sump pump outside too. I am not sure why but it stunk really bad while doing all this.
After their lunch break, they finished laying the concrete. I have to admit that I am impressed with the work that was done. It looks great and this should solve all of our water issues.
I snuck downstairs while they were on break today to see the progress that was being made. Here are couple of pictures of what it looks like when they need to install drainage tile in your basement:
It doesn’t look like much, but I have been listening to jackhammering all morning. Tomorrow, they are suppose to be finishing the job, so we should have the new sump pump, new drainage tile, new concrete where they dug, and they are redoing the outside where it comes out. Good times. 
For those of you not on Twitter, yesterday was not a good day. Actually, we should go back to Monday. Monday was Madison’s birthday. Bill ended up working late, and we had some really nasty storms come through. We had promised Madison that we were going to be going to Denny’s for her favorite: Alien Pancakes. However, it was storming and hailing at dinner time, so we talked her out of it. However, I still needed to go out and get a snack for Madison’s class. What should have been a short trip ended up taking two hours. There is a kid in her class that is allergic to peanuts. Needless to say, I learned that almost everything has peanuts in it. Then yesterday due to the sixty degree temperatures and constant rain our basement started flooding. To make matters worse, our sump pump quit working too. Being that I was here by myself, there wasn’t much I could even do about the basement. I couldn’t leave the kids upstairs by themselves. I called Bill, and he came home from work early. Come to find out, the reason the sump pump quit working was that cover somehow got pushed into the float, and it wasn’t letting it kick in. Once we took care of that, my basement started draining. The good thing that may have come out of the basement flooding (again) was that I think Bill realizes that putting any money down there to finish it is pointless. I am hoping we can get a chance to run up into the attic and measure tonight. I want to call and get some estimates on how much we are talking about to go up. We have a 1/2 story up there, so we wouldn’t be going from scratch. I personally think it is the best way to get more space. Plus, it would add more value to our home.
How has the last couple of days been treating you?
We just got our power back. We’ve been out since Monday night. So without power, our sump pump doesn’t work. So our basement began flooding. Bill and I took pails and by hand started draining the sump pump hole. It sucked. I still hurt. Bill ended up with 4 hours of sleep Monday night and I didn’t go to sleep till 6:30 Monday morning (and then got 2 hours of sleep since Madison was up). We have branches down everywhere. Two panels of my neighbors fence is my yard. Our patio furniture was thrown from one side of the yard to the other. So its been fun.
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