We hit water...

Here's a quick update on some stuff that's gone on in my firm lately...

So we're in construction on a house addition in New Canaan, CT. It's a beautiful project - the existing house is very old and nice, we were able to completely destroy an incredibly UGLY addition which was added to the original house, sometime in the 1980's. Now we're adding on this very simple, immaculately detailed glass box, essentially.

Well, one of the client's main requests was that they get a full basement for the kids to run around in. We've always told them, "okay but there's a chance we'll hit a water table down there." They live near a wetland, and although all the engineers' test probes came up negative, you can never be sure with water. A water table, basically, is the term referred to the point at which water does not come UP towards the surface anymore. At a certain depth, there is water under every point of ground. It's just a matter of how deep. At this point, it was roughly8 or 9 feet below the surface, which is really not that deep. So it creates structural and obviously water problems. So now we've got us, the engineers, the contractor, and everybody else hurrying to come up with a solution.
Good thing we're only managing this one project - because we're in emergency mode at the moment! I'll keep you updated.