Joe... had to laugh at your predicament . Built my house in '92 and had a good friend as a contractor. In the planning stages we discussed 'shop or basement'. His advise was 'build your shop...if you have a basement all it will be
is a place for your kids to store all their stuff with your stuff pushed off to the corner'. My shop has all MY stuff in it and granted it's crammed to the gills but it's all MY stuff. Best house decision I made. Sorry you're finding out the hard way.
Hopefully it's temporary.

john

 

I feel your pain Joe. I like seeing casters on your work bench. Good ideal for me to steal when I build one for my new shop. I have my great aunt's round pot belly wood stove I may put in mine. Keep showing us progress.

 

Hi Joe, I am feeling your pain wrt space restrictions, but lucky for me, we built the wife a rather large she-shed a few years ago, and the role's have reversed, I now use her space for some work and storage while I continue the restoration on my 54.

 

Some bad news on my future lift. Below are pictures of where that money is going.
We had a backup in our sewer. Fortunately it didn't back up into the house, the cleanouts popped their caps. I still have a mess to clean up though.
Now the crazy part. The guy that came out to hydrojet the lines to go stopped. So he dug a hole to find the pipe and it was caved in. That guy doesn't do dig work so I had another guy come out. He found a second cleanout. So our house is divided with two lines leaving the house. Well the line that was clogged (our master bathroom) actually just went straight out to ground in the woods behind our house. Highly illegal. I can't believe a plumber would even think of doing that. My plumber wondered if my master bath was an addition, but it wasn't. This plumber did this on a new build. It would have been just as easy to run the line to the other line that does go to the sewer. I'm tempted to report it to the city. I have no idea who the plumber was and not sure if I can find out. That's just wrong on all accounts. But, I'm fixed now.

Another note, get quotes from more than one company. One company just looked at the hole that was dug and said $3000 if it is just to fix the broken section.$8000-$10000 if they had to dig to the sewer line (about 50-75 feet). The guy that did the work said $1200 to the sewer unless there are problems. I'm sure it will be more than that since he dug out the broken part and found the illegal dumping and had to dig sideways to the true line. But it will still be $5000 cheaper at least than the other company.

 

Ouch!!! To bad you didn't know this before hand. You could have tapped into it for your shop? Stay positive Joe!

 

That hurts. I would definitely be down at the planning and inspection department asking how this got by them.

 

Good news though. I have been wondering how my brake pads were on my van. It was parked in the shop so I decided to take a look. They were due for replacement on the front.
It was so easy to get this done having my tools and room. I know people do a lot of great work in cramped spaces, but man it's nice to have the room.
My goal is to keep the two bays uncluttered so it remains easy to get around the vehicles as well as have space for entertainment. We will be having 20+ family over for Easter tomorrow and both vehicles will be pulled out to make room for....well whatever my wife has planned.

 

sorry about the sewer line. That is just bad work on his part. I have seen a lot of bad work while digging some lines up with my little back hoe.

 

Highly illegal. I can't believe a plumber would even think of doing that. My plumber wondered if my master bath was an addition, but it wasn't. This plumber did this on a new build. It would have been just as easy to run the line to the other line that does go to the sewer. I'm tempted to report it to the city. I have no idea who the plumber was and not sure if I can find out.
Joe, some governing bodies maintain the list of permits pulled for all properties. I found all of mine with very little on line research at the county level. Surprised the inspector did not catch it during the build. Glad you got it fixed.

 

I hate hearing you have shoddy work on your newly purchased home. With my luck with bodyshops, your delima doesn't surprise me Joe. Almost all the guys I talk to in the area have had BAD experiences in restoring their cars. I'm just dumbfounded that people being paid well wouldn't do the job their being hired to do. I agree, you need second and third opinions and bids on Any work your getting done.

 

Sorry about your sewer line joe, or lack thereof. You'll get your lift. Start dropping hints to your relatives about chipping in for a combined Christmas present.

 

It's just a product of today's construction attitude. It's all about quantity, not quality, even for the "better" contractors.

Get done, get paid, get out.

 

Joe, are you saying the sewer pipe just ended to the ground surface in the woods? No septic tank or drain field? I’ve been in houses where one sewer line went to city sewer, and the other line went to a septic tank. The houses were built before common usage of sewer pumps.

 

One of the things I wanted to know about the house(built in 1968) was the septic tank as we dont have city sewer, when we bought it in 2015.
No one, siblings, knew anything about it like where it was in the yard or if it had any work done since installed.
County did not keep records back then so no help there.

Well a few years later we had back up issues but only if we got a lot of rain for a few days.
We got in touch with a person and he was able to find the tank and when opened it was not that bad or full but would need replacing in a few years.
We did find a lot of tree roots and nothing was flowing out to the leach field, dont remember why now?

He also found a "gray water" line (kitchen sink & dish washer, washing machine & laundry room sink) not tied into the septic tank and said this was not to code and if not picked up by county just leave it. County did see it but did not say anything so it stayed a gray line.
We had a new septic tank and leach field, larger than we need for the house, installed and no more issues in heavy rain.

Sorry to see the lift is put on hold for now
Dave ----

 

I thought the grass always grows greener over the septic tank.