A little background

All right, pictures! Well, in a moment...

Let's begin with a little background as to why we're undertaking this particular renovation at this particular time. This past winter was one of the most severe, in terms of amount of precipitation, in the history of the city. We got more goddamn rain in two months than we usually see in a year. It was absolutely brutal, and our poor neglected perimeter drains and storm sewer couldn't keep up. We had a little bit of a flood.

Case in point, the Backyard:

Nice green fence boards, eh? Yeah, it was pretty wet.

At any rate, thanks to a few inches of water in the basement, we figured that it was time to deal with the basement. One thing led to another, and we wound up deciding to renovate the whole thing, and put in a second bathroom while we were at it.

The first step in this was to figure out how bad our drains really were, and to determine where the problems lay.

Commence digging!


Fun times, that.

Anyway, that's the current state of the backyard. More about the basement shortly.