Three days after installing the vent down-stream from the trap in the drain pipe for our upstairs air handler, the whole thing appears to be working exactly like it’s supposed to! There’s a slow, steady drip at the outside end of the drain pipe, and the secondary drain pan is actually bone dry for the first time since installation!
Before packing the girls and Finley in the minivan and heading up to visit her parents, Andrea had a dump truck unload a gigantic pile of pine bark mulch in our driveway. Apparently if I ever want to see or use our driveway again, I need to spread all that mulch around in our play area, flower, shrub, and herb beds. I don’t want to exaggerate the size of the pile, so I’ll just say it’s longer than my car, as wide as the driveway, and taller than me. At least, it was before I started hauling wheelbarrows full of mulch all over the yard. It’s work, but the last time we had a pile of anything nearly that big in our driveway, it was soil, and let me tell you, mulch weighs practically nothing compared to soil!
I was keeping count of how many trips it would take to get rid of the mulch pile, but I lost count today as I did some weeding and edging in between mulching trips. Looking at the pile, I’m a bit nervous I won’t get the job done before the 4th of July holiday unless I spend every non-sleeping, non-working hour on the mulch pile.
Hopefully I’m just really bad at spacial estimation because I wanted to do a lot of bike riding while everyone’s up north!