Drainage

 We knew the yard had a drainage problem. One of the first things we did when we bought your house was have a temporary pipe to send some roof water away from the house.

It's getting close to being a year and we need to do something. So I got three bids, well honestly I got one bid. Three guys came out. The first came from a neighbor. He never emailed me a number.  He's was the lowest. But not emailing me a number, after I asked, was a flag (not a red flag, but I've been ignored by contractors before). Second, young fellow, got a bid to me quickly. The price is a bit high, but the company presented the exact thing I wanted. The third guy, sent a proposal and was the most expensive of them all. He convinced me that I will need an interior french drain. His bid didn't have a number but when he was at the house the number he gave was way up there.

However, we did an interior French drain at our old DC house. I do not have the mental energy for doing that all over again, now. Maybe in the future.

Despite the plastic and all the stuff our contractor did, dust got on to the upper floors.

I decided we'll do this when Destructo-Kid is 7 years old. Then we can relocate, temporarily and someone will be more mature and will understand what we are doing. When we moved into your house Destructo had been to two different schools in one year with a third on the way. We don't want to unnecessarily add more instability to his life.

Right now, we are concentrating on the outside. The drainage we are going to deal with is outside. We will work our way inward and deal with the fact that you have no french drains and the sump pumps are not connected to anything. But I'm happy you had two pumps. Thanks.