Red Flag. Sooo Sad.

Good news and bad news. What's that you say? You want the good news first? OK. The good news is we got our Certificate of Occupancy from the city. The bad news is it has a BIG RED FLAG on it!! The red flag is for the water line leading from the street to the house. The city inspector says it needs to be bigger because we added a bathroom. ***Rant warning!*** Don't ya think they could have brought this sh*t up in their previous inspections? They've been out to the house several times before now and the final inspection is when they choose to say something?? Losers. Oh and by the way, Rob had to spend 4 hours and $700 dollars to get a permit for said water line. Hmmmm, sounds like a frickin' racket to me! Stupid city inspectors. You suck.

Ok- I'm done ranting now.

So needless to say, we spent our Saturday replacing the water line. We could have paid a plumber to do it, but they wanted WAY too much money. Rob and Nick were able to get most of the work done today and it was less than half the plumber's quote. and we need the extra moola for the stupid permit! Here's some pics from our day. This is the "old" water line:

This is Rob and Nick with the "Ditch Witch"- a handy little piece of equipment designed for trenching front yards for water lines. Its obviously BIG business, this water line thing.

This is what I call a group effort:

This is what Elaine and I were doing when we weren't watching Rob and Nick- painting. Those are the spare bedroom closet doors which turned out lovely. You'll see them up after the carpet goes in.

Sodering the last few pieces:

And finally- the new water line. Tomorrow we fill in the ditch. I guess they haven't made a fancy machine for that, yet. Unless you want to call "shovel" a fancy machine.

Stupid inspectors.