Gotta go back down there, I thought to myself. No choice. I assumed if I inserted myself in that hole again I would feel a little more comfortable. So I did. I needed to squirm into the next bay to get access to the problem. I had stuck a light down into the hole from above so that I could see the point to which to crawl. When I managed to get into the bay, I just lay there for a bit. Looked around.
Slowly, I inched forward and shone the light I had dragged in with me to get a sense of what was under there. Too many pipes. I discovered that many of them were abandoned, which posed a problem for me. When I finally made my way forward, I was stopped by some pipes that I couldn’t go under or over. Some of them were abandoned water pipes, some were waste pipes I could do nothing about.
So, I crawled out backwards - with some effort - stood in the sunlight and talked with Tony about the options.
At least I gave this thing a good shot. I now have a better understanding of my house. A good thing.
We went back inside and I started making a bigger hole in the floor. I was finally able to reach far enough to remove the whole broken pipe complex! Now I know what I have to do: widen the hole, order parts to rebuild the whole thing. That’s where it stands.
