Stuff that Wasn't Fun to Do....

Of all the things we've done on the house, this is the project that was just about the least fun.  OK, maybe it's tied with getting a full tear-off for the roof.

We put in a sump pump last year.  Talk about spending money to dig a hole in the ground!  This was a big project and it kept costing us more and more because the more digging that was done, the more money it cost us.  There are a lot of big rocks in the ground around the Dayton house -- and it added on to the labor to have to dig around them!

One interesting thing we did learn, is that the city water drain goes from the basement, all of the way back to the barn, then down to the street.  When we tried to determine where the run-off was draining to, the guy snaked the line expecting to hear a noise from the storm drain in the street.  He heard nothing.  But things were getting loud in the garage!

The garage/barn was for horses, hence it needed a drain.  This is very convenient when you are hosing down the garage floor.  But it was sort of confounding when it came time to deal with drainage.  But this is the type of thing one experiences when owning an old house.

As for the pump, it was not fun to spend money on it, but it works really well!