Sometimes Right Isn't Always Popular

The work crew is gone. The basement walls have taken a beating. Our savings account is crying. There is a very fine layer of pulverized cement silt covering every single surface on all three floors of the entire house. We do believe we made the right decision though. I asked the foreman before they left and took all my money if they got any water out of the walls. He said they had drained water out the corner area, which is where we had seen the most problems so far. Brian also said when he inspected the walls last night that there were two cinder blocks that had begun to crumble (the acid in the sitting water eats the cinder block away). I had been offering up the weirdest prayer since Friday when we signed the contract to have the work done. I just wanted there to be a real problem so we could have some confirmation that we had made the right decision in spending that kind of money. In some odd sort of way, I felt real good that our foundation wall was crumbling in chunks and they drained water out. We didn't waste our money and we caught the problem well before we would have had to remediate any structural damage. Thank heaven for blessings that come in the weirdest of ways. Brian's summation of the situation was to say, "Sometimes right isn't always popular." Or in other words, the right choice wasn't what we really wanted to do. It was hard on us.