mower-damaged-cleanout-cover_02

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:12:43 -0600

24APR24 - Yet another cool date! :=)

This is obviously the cover of what I call a valve box and it has seen better days. (smiling) Fact is, I didn't even know this cleanout existed until I installed the french drain for the cool deck as it had been fully covered with turf. Of course, Mr. Obsessive UNcovered it and cleaned up the grass but then I saw that the plug stuck up higher than the rim of the box and the cover couldn't seat properly. Definitely a lousy plumbing job, whoever it was.

But as usual, other more important things got in the way and I had left the cover caddywhoppered over the plug. The problem with that idea is mowing but I had been careful enough to keep the blade height high enough to avoid contact..until last Friday. (smiling again)

After the hit, I probably spent twenty minutes picking all those fragments out of the grass. :-)