DIY & Home Improvement

Leaving access = bad idea (although one of the neighbors had same problem and had them make a hatch to access the new valve) because our water table is so high - in the spring it will just come through. Wonder what happens in the neighbor's basement?

The difference in price: there is none. I think the guy was maybe going to pocket a little extra for the cost of the valve or something.

There's now a hole in my basement and the company is overnighting a piece to fix the original valve because the valve they brought with them wouldn't work. They said it was too big or something (I was at work - wife dealt with them).

I found out that every house on my end of the subdivision has these valves just as a precausion because our houses are the lowest in the subdivision (although the earth keeps dropping and drains to a swamp across the street).

I'm hoping they finish today and the man cave can be put back together in time for football.

I've become less adventurous as I age. I know my limits now.