P - U!!!! A very stinky situation!

After 2 1/2 years of having sewer back-up problems (YUCK!), we are finally getting it fixed! We hope... Today we had a contractor come over to dig up our old clay tile sewer pipe to replace it with a new PVC pipe. I don't think either of us knew what was in store for our poor little yard! Here are a few pictures I took this afternoon....

They started with a little hole in our basement floor...

Then started to gut the insides out of our beautiful front yard. They had to cut down a huge pine tree (which I was OK with since it was pretty scraggly and ugly) and fortunately, they were able to spare the big maple (seen to the right of the picture). They did have to cut a few of the branches off, so now it is a little lop-sided. Hopefully it survives having 1/2 it's root system destroyed.

The trench is about 6-8 Feet deep and about 4-5 feet wide - it is hard to see how big it actually is from these pictures. The old pine tree used to be right about where the big back-hoe is parked. They cut the branches off the left side of the maple tree, so it's no longer a perfect tree, but at least it is still there!

All the way to the street (about 75 feet)! Tomorrow the plumbing inspector will come by to check things out. After that, they will fill it back in and hopefully it will look a little better! What a mess!

On a more exciting note.... 9 Days until Greece!!!!!!!