bedmaking
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septic challenges
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while hunting for answers, bill remembered a toilet vent was once located under the area i had just buried in earth. he wanted it cleared so the system could function again. the problem was: his foggy memory of the pipe's whereabouts. so he pointed, one visit at a time to a different area of the yard...and i dug. i dug all over the place. many hours and four wrong pipes later, the yard was thoroughly excavated but the vent was never found. all i know for certain is, it's nowhere within the realms of my project, so onwards!
a quick disassemble?
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you see, it's a difficult thing to work with a stranger in a field in which you have little experience. in this instance, i let bill take the lead on construction and was not involved in assembling the temporary frame. so when it was time to pull it apart, i found a prohibitively sturdy frame with over 25 3" screws buried deep into the wood strips. looking back, i think bill was on construction auto-pilot and did not consider the disassembly phase when he built the frame and i am certainly ignorant of most construction norms and techniques - couldn't easily find a remedy. this was very frustrating, for one because it created much more work for me (!) and more importantly, because it could have been easily avoided with better communication and forethought.
in the end, (another volunteer) mike and i went to great lengths to loosen and pry the stripped screws and wood beams off - without chipping the concrete too much. it was all sorts of crazy, but i'm glad it's done.