The Scot has started the Summer of Renovations on the house.  Save for one SNAFU, the demolition of the basement (soon to be the rec room) went well.  Here’s what happened:

uuhh... quick, get the wet vac!

So you see, that’s the water meter, and it’s somewhat disconnected from the line coming in to the house.  This was taken after we got the city to shut off the feed and we re-attached the valve.  One errant swing of a wrecking bar and the whole thing came right off.  BAM!  And suddenly I was tearing apart my front lawn looking for the street valve…

This was not ideal.

It’s all dry now and, despite the water having run undeterred for almsot 20 minutes, there was no permanent damage done.  Oh, and the demolition is complete… Now I have to replace the drain (under the concrete) and level the floor… Then we build!

all dry!