The heating guy worked all week to get the baseboards in place, and finish off a few last minute heating things. By friday we were ready for the Town of Minturn to come and turn on the water. It was a very exciting day. But as with everything related to the Minturn project, things didn't quite go to plan.
I think all the town workers turned up at the house to help (there were three of them), and they got to work thawing the ground to access the curbside water valves. The first valve they found turned off one of our neighbours water. The second was our other neighbours, eventually they found the correct valve. We eagerly waited for the water to enter the house, but after a few minutes 'sans water' we realised something wasn't quite right. Our excited bubble was burst. Did the orginial plumbers (who we eventually fired because they were so bad) make a mistake with the plumbing? Was there a leak? Were the pipes frozen?
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| Heating the ground |
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| Turning the water on. Unfortunately no water came into the house. Boo. |
We called the local pipe thawers - who quoted $200/hr to come over and thaw the pipes. We hoped it wouldn't take too long, if in fact the pipes were frozen. The alternative scenarios were not ones we wanted to think about. Digging in frozen ground to reach water pipes would have been a fair amount more expensive than thawing pipes, and calling the fired plumbers to find out if they messed up would have been an awkward conversation !! Thankfully within 10 minutes of heating the pipes, we had water pouring out of the taps!!!!!!! Thank goodness. The heating guy had left by the time we got water, so we haven't had any hot water or gas heating over the weekend. That should all happen on Monday. What a luxury!!
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| WATER |
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