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Our Lovely Home : Finally, we're adding updates! Hooray!

Our Lovely Home

Finally, we're adding updates! Hooray!

Updated: Jun 06, 2007 2:26pm PST

Porch :

Porch

Updated: Jun 16, 2006 11:18am PST

Our Kitchen Must DIE! : Like many homes, ours has a kitchen. What sets our home apart from most others is that while most people's kitchens have sinks that drain to a septic system of some kind, our sinks drained to...nowhere. Well, actually, they did drain to somewhere. They drained to the space under our kitchen floor. We have many reasons to believe that the previous owner knew about this. There are a lot of words for what kind of person he is, but none of them are suitable for printing here. In any case, once we discovered the problem, it became clear that the only way to fix it would be to rip out the entire kitchen floor and start again from scratch, only this time with a drain that connects to the city sanitary sewer system. Obviously, this job is huge. Fortunately, we are indeed blessed to have Kacia and Willy, who generously used their precious vacation time to help us out. We love Willy and Kacia!

Our Kitchen Must DIE!

Like many homes, ours has a kitchen. What sets our home apart from most others is that while most people's kitchens have sinks that drain to a septic system of some kind, our sinks drained to...nowhere. Well, actually, they did drain to somewhere. They drained to the space under our kitchen floor. We have many reasons to believe that ...

Updated: Jul 22, 2008 8:06pm PST

Around the Neighborhood :

Around the Neighborhood

Updated: May 11, 2006 1:08pm PST

Dining Room Archaeology : One of the quaint unexpected (and undisclosed) features of our 150-year old home is the 10-foot deep, 7-foot wide cistern under our dining room floor. The cistern at one time collected rain water from the gutter system, and the water could then be pumped up into the kitchen. Our home's previous owner knew about it, and he even went to the trouble of walling off the crawl-space access that would have allowed our inspector to see it was there. We found the hatch in the dining room floor after we ripped the carpet out. We also later met former tenants, who told us they complained frequently that animals were somehow getting into the cistern and drowning. Lovely. For some reason, having a 10-foot deep deathtrap under your dining room floor isn't considered a selling point, so we're going to fill it in (capacity: 15 cubic yards). First, though, we wanted to be sure there weren't any interesting artifacts tossed in over the last 150 years.

Dining Room Archaeology

One of the quaint unexpected (and undisclosed) features of our 150-year old home is the 10-foot deep, 7-foot wide cistern under our dining room floor. The cistern at one time collected rain water from the gutter system, and the water could then be pumped up into the kitchen. Our home's previous owner knew about it, and he even went to th ...

Updated: Jul 22, 2008 5:11pm PST