The Big Dig

Those of you who have lived in Boston in the last . . . what? 15 years in Boston know what The Big Dig is.

Well, we've started our own Big Dig in Unterschleissheim.

It started two weeks ago, when we noticed that the gutters on one side of the house were leaking. The water wasn't going into the ground like it should. So, Michi climbed a ladder to clean the gutters. But: no problem!

The pipe leading into the ground was clogged. Great.

Question: do we have a cess pool? No idea. The house plans didn't show anything at all. Traudl (my mother-in-law) seemed to remember a cess pool, but not where. Of course, it was 41 years ago...

So, Michi and I started to dig. We dug down to 120cm (4 feet), and arrived at a pipe turn (vertical to horizontal). We managed to free the vertical pipe, and I freed it of all obstructions.

Michi sprayed water into the horizontal pipe, but: it came back in his face!

Needless to say, we were both very muddy at this phase.

A neighbor came the next day, to try to see where a cell pool could be. He thought the cess pool was 6 feet left, two feet out.

So; Michi dug the next hole. No luck.

Maybe the house has no cess pool! And Michi has been "digging for Elvis."

Photos from Italy in Sunday...