Basement Reinforcements

Frank's finally got a building permit on Wednesday morning and started chewing up the basement floor. The puddles are where the posts are going:


Some of the strange plumbing in the basement has gotten stranger:





Since opening up the floor for the posts cut into the old drain tile that fed the sump pump, we added a couple of $ grand to waterproof the perimeter. A foot-wide opening is being made on all four walls (even the ones that don't get posts), and this will be lined with gravel and a perforated drain pipe:



One of the last changes that the engineer made was to specify 4 x 4 beams spaced at three foot intervals (instead of 4 x 6 at four foot intervals). This is what the north wall looks like: