What a mess!

Bill, Travis and Rob dug up our driveway today to prepare for the new water main, and moving the utilities as well as regrading for the approach to the new garage. Gary could have skipped the gym by staying and helping Travis lift blocks of broken asphalt and taking them to the dumpster.



Once the drive was clear, Bill (very carefully so as not to hit the pretty new garage, dig up the phone or cable or water mains) dug a two foot wide, three foot deep trench for the new electrical and phone/cable conduit. Because of City of Seattle inspection times we have an open trench now until they can come and decide the trence is OK. Then they will back-fill and grade and we'll all cross our fingers that the weather stays nice enough for them to pave. Otherwise we'll have a muddy dirty driveway for a while.

Meanwhile the electricans were working on this now somewhat major electrical project, which now includes redoing the entire hot-tub circuit since apparently according to the city our existing circuit doesn't meet code (it's what happens when you do it yourself). So now we are without a hot tub for a while until they can conduit and rewire all that too! They also got a good start on wiring up the new kitchen and moving some fixtures that were not properly aligned with the new cabinets. With any luck we'll switch over to the new circuit boxes later this week, but we are having our doubts... However we won't be here as we'll be leaving for Whistler for a few days of skiing on Friday!