Water and sewage

Me and Angelica made a quick visit to the house this morning, before work.

We noticed that two city workers was there digging a hole in the street, to hook the house up to the city’s water and sewage systems.

This was supposed to have been done a month ago, so when the builders needed water to mix the concrete glue used when building the outer walls, we had to ask the neighbors for water.

It was a good thing we where there, because they told us that “they would only run the pipes to the lot boundary, not all the way to the house. So we needed to connect them to the house ourselves”…

When we left we said to each other; “Wasn’t that exactly what the contractor said when doing the water/sewage-line installation in early January?”

We called him up, and yes, they had indeed already run their (our) end of the water/sewage pipes from the house out to the lot boundary, in order for the city to connect to them later.

Which of course meant that the city workers today should be connecting to the pipes already in place!

Our contractor said he would clear this misunderstanding with the city, and we assume that we saved ourselves a bit of trouble (another hole in the street) and money, by turning up at the house at the right time.