Tony Dalton thought he’d done everything right. He bought his first home in April, settled in, and assumed the unglamorous stuff—like where the wastewater goes—was simply handled the way it had been for years.
Then, a couple months later, the ground shifted next door. Construction crews working on a new parking lot for Hinsdale Elementary cut his sewer line, and Dalton’s house effectively stopped functioning like a normal house. The details come from the source post, and it reads like a nightmare scenario homeowners warn each other about but never expect to live through.
The day your house stops being usable
Dalton said his sewage line was accidentally cut in June by workers with Webbs Excavation. The company had been hired by the Kenton County School District as part of a project to build a new parking lot next door to his property.
At first, he figured it would be annoying but straightforward—dig, repair, reconnect, done. The home is about 25 years old, and Dalton said the line had “always been there,” which is the kind of detail that makes a new homeowner relax. If it’s been working for decades, surely it’s legitimate, right?…