Rain Rain Rain

Right before Christmas we attempted to put in the underground plumbing pipes but the fill had not dried out enough so we decided to wait until Tuesday after Christmas.  Where the fill was not covered the dirt soaked up a lot of water.  Wouldn't you know it, we have been in a two year drought with 1600 homes burned in Bastrop and 32,000 acres burned in Sept and now in December, we have too much rain! Notice the sunny skies----well it didn't stay like that over Christmas....more rain

Here is the trench they dug around the perimeter for the outside beams.  They were engineered to be 12 inches wide and 24 inches deep with 6-12 inches going down to solid undisturbed earth.  The boards are 2x6 which looks like the beam is dug to be about 18 inches deep so they have to dig it out some more.

Lots of water standing and not much evaporating but it does look like it is staying on top of the plastic so maybe the fill is dry.  This was taken early Tuesday morning before the plumber showed up.

The plumber pulled the plastic and they drove the trencher onto the fill and immediately sunk in.  They were stuck for about 30 minutes and after totally messing up the smooth surface left to try again in a couple of days.

I have my doubts we are going to get these plumbing lines in before New Years but that is the joy of building in Texas in the Winter.  

WE'LL WORK IT OUT