We also add a gift certificate to the restaurant [which the owner gives me a big discount on] and a plate of home made cookies.Next to the basket, I have a decorated box that has some of my Avon products, toilet paper,paper towels, one towel, one washcloth, one bar of soap, several toothbrushes and toothpaste, a small pack of tylenol, stuff like that.All 3 families have been ecstatic over what was waiting for them.

Roofs around here are designed to handle snow loads exceeding the ~4' (30" compacted) of snow we received last month.

Bringing in the extra dirt to raise the lot also required a Soil Engineer to be ONSITE for several days to test the compaction of the soil as we lifted the site, and also some additional heavy machinery that we don't normally run across...like a "Vibratory Sheeps Foot" which kinda sounds like something you would find at one of those trucker stores...After a hundred and twenty something loads of dirt, we were close...but not quite close enough, so we decided to stop bringing in dirt for the moment, and incorporate a SUBWALL into our foundation so that we could bring in dirt only for where out house sat and stop "bringing up" the whole lot.With the "development" portion almost done, it's time to go vertical!

Really you should compact the dirt as you go so you don't have a big sink hole.  

But here's a rough idea of the basic steps involved and what it cost when I did it: STEPS:~ Drain the pool~ Remove pool equipment & cap off water lines~ Remove/cap off any unused electrical~ Knock down the edges around the pool and make holes in the bottom of the pool for drainage ~ Fill pool with "clean fill" material (i.e. soil, gravel, rock, sand, etc)~ Tamp the fill material as you put it in to compact it and reduce the chance of it settling over time once it's all fullCOSTS: (we did the labor ourselves so this is just for the material)~ $450 to buy a jackhammer to knock down the edges around the pool and also to make the holes in the bottom (we could have rented a jackhammer for cheaper but this way we own one and can use it on future jobs)~ $1600 for the fill dirt (it was a lot of dirt!)

The meters use rational numbers to describe irrational numbers; you can get really really close but very difficult to be absolutely precise (always going to have a +/- tolerance).As others have pointed out, if the meter ticked over ever time 'any' water moved through the system, every hand wash, glass of water, tooth brushing would get dinged.

Are you afraid of by digging deeper than the pipe,,,as that dirt now settles and compacts itself,,,will drag the pipe down into a 'low' spot and make more trouble in the future???

I am unfortunately in a very compact region without a REIA or similar organized gathering.

I just came across the an LG compact Washer/Dryer that seems to a great solution.

As we get up in the morning we may reach to turn off the alarm after hitting the snooze alarm twice before we finally decide to take the short walk to grab our toothbrush to start our day.