Dueling Contractors

So while Boudreaux's guys tackle the demolition, Lafitte's crew is getting the house ready to jack back up to level. Meanwhile, there's a city crew outside running new gas lines on our block. I could park a sandwich truck in front of my house and probably do very nicely.

Despite having a plethora of men with trucks around, somehow nobody claimed the job of disconnecting the plumbing before the house gets shored. Since the pipes run in the crawl space under the house, moving the house, will mean adjusting the plumbing so it doesn't break or knock out a wall or something. For reasons I have not learned, Lafitte's contract did not include the plumbing work. Boudreaux's just in charge of the kitchen, so there's no reason he'd have planned to handle the plumbing for the bathrooms. Anyway, Boudreaux has a plumber on the job, so we'll get him to do it - at an additional cost, of course.

I'll be so excited to see the house level though. I really hope all the plaster doesn't crack.