Frankenstein Plumbing - Part 2

Just in case you've been holding your breath for some sort of follow-up to the tirade about the leaking pipes in our frankenplumbing cellar, here's some that tidbit of info.

Above, I'm pictured smoothing out quickcrete on the gaping hole which surrounds the check valve. Of course to make things really fun, I went and bought quickcrete with stones in it!! What was I thinking - was I gonna install a mailbox post??!? But, yes, the whole job was finished nicely: water heater, 4" iron sewer pipe replacement, check valve repair, leaking pipe repair, install of supply lines for laundry tub (to the right) and repair of outside leaky spigot.