Paul dug the trench a few days ago and the floor is already pitched away from the house. The entire lengh is about 85 feet. You can see the utility lines crossing the ditch.

Here is where the drain will exit the basement. You can see the buried drain tile pipe coming in from both sides of the ditch.

Three sections connected with the remaining sections standing up in the ditch.

All of the pipe is now laid and connected, including the 45-degree elbow which will take a short section to feed into the basement.

At the outlet end, we used a scrap piece of iron pipe as a protective sleeve.

Beginning to fill in the trench at the outlet end.

About half finished. Jeff stayed in the trench to keep rocks away from the thin-walled pipe.

Approaching the utility lines.

We decided to stop at the utility lines since we still need to run the water line through this area.

Gobble gobble!

The west wall lit up just before sunset.

A view of the house looking up the driveway from the road.