The Big Dig Is Underway
Here’s what the street in front of our house looks like one day into repairing our collapsed waste line. We’ve been on restricted water usage (as in thirty second showers and flush-only-when-necessary) for the past ten days and we’re ready for a long, hot bath. Evidently the City used to take responsibility for repairing pipes…
Here’s what the street in front of our house looks like one day into repairing our collapsed waste line. We’ve been on restricted water usage (as in thirty second showers and flush-only-when-necessary) for the past ten days and we’re ready for a long, hot bath. Evidently the City used to take responsibility for repairing pipes this far out into the street but now the onus and the cost are on the building owners. Sucks for us.
Homeowner’s doesn’t cover it–thought it is covering the interior damage that resulted from the flooding. Someone we worked with mentioned that he bought insurance directly from the water company for his house in New Jersey. Would be good to know, though we shouldn’t have to do this again for another 100 years (knock on wood).
It’s fairly common. Friends of ours one block over just had to do the same thing last month.
Hoping to not have to tear up the bluestone sidewalk or the stoop. We’ll see though.
is there insurance for this kind of thing? and what created the problem in the first place?
harsh. are they going to have to dig under your stoop too? I wonder just how common a misfortune this is, since most brownstones probably still have their original waste pipe…
Ouch! Oh sorry for you Brownstoner!
Yup. $10,000 that wasn’t exactly in the budget.
OK– reading more carefully now… I guess it’s just your waste line, so just your bill to deal with? Ugh!!
All right, I’m clueless– how does the neighborhood go about dealing with this mess? Did you guys have a big meeting? Who got the bill? Just need to know in case we ever hit the lottery and own a brownstone of our own one day.