The lovely dishwasher arrived at about 5:10pm on Saturday. It is so pretty! Right now it is in the laundry room, but it is out of the box, so we can look at it.
Dad cut away the drywall in a suitable square shape and got things ready for the next step. Since we were waiting on the delivery at that point, he made up a little of the cement we bought and repaired the crumbling edges around the foundation. Now we can't see daylight out of the bottom of the wall! Of course it is night, but the hole is gone too. He had enough mixed up that he repaired the outside threshold of the front door. It looks really nice.
The big discovery is why everything in the wall in that area behind the fridge is damp. Apparently the vent pipe that goes to the roof has rusted out just above the main water pipe. So, whenever we have a backup, or a surge of water, it was going into the wall -- and out onto the back porch! What a mess!
Now we need to figure out how to fix that. But it is Saturday night and there is a Regional Youth Activity and Dance in Newport News, so Dad is gone. We have a call in to our friend, Jason Miller, a plumber. Meanwhile, no laundry or extensive dishwashing until we get a pipe in that creepily empty space. Then we can put in the insulation and drywall we just got, and it will stay DRY. I wanted to take a picture of the pipe, but Dad sweetly pushed the fridge back and tidied up before he left.
So considerate!
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That is a mess. It'll be nice to add some insulation to a place where it was gone/moldy. You're lucky to have a plumber friend to help with all these things.
It's stressful to keep finding more things that are wrong, but good to fix them now before your pretty kitchen is all installed.
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