Jackhammers

Paul Davis is back this morning, breaking up the concrete floor of the utility room about three feet along the outside wall and two feet along the wall between that room and the kitchen (i.e. where the old building meets the 1965 addition). They think the water is coming from below the floor and making its way up between the wall footing and the cement slab floor. They are tarring the footings, applying the blue skin wrap stuff and the black dimpleboard, and then repouring the concrete. Similar to what they did on the outside of the foundations last summer. Hopefully all of this will encourage the water not to come up between floor and wall in future. It should instead take the path of least resistance and filter away through the sandy soil outside.

I am huddled over my laptop two rooms away, trying to hear my teleconference and watching billows of hazy white dust fill the room, despite two closed doors between us. It will be a clean-up job, for sure. But the water issue has to be dealt with; fingers crossed this does the trick so that we can get on to other things! I'm tried of dealing with water.