Cesspit hasn't been emptied in 18years

Hoploz

He wouldn't know if it needed repairing if it's never been emptied!

There was some legislation a few years ago (2010?) about requiring a septic tank to be officially registered. I believe the obligation has been cancelled since, but I wonder whether he thinks if he calls it a Cess pit it will hide the fact that he hasn't registered his system?

An average Cess pit would be emptied every 4-8 weeks depending on how many people live in the property. Enough capacity for 18 years? Not very likely.

ognum

Hoploz wrote: »

May I ask what you do with the water from the showers and kitchen sink then?

It goes to a soak away

Hoploz

Interesting ... Is that legal?

ognum

Hoploz wrote: »

Interesting ... Is that legal?

It is where this house is!

slopemaster

Hoploz wrote: »

An average Cess pit would be emptied every 4-8 weeks depending on how many people live in the property. /QUOTE]

Our used to be emptied every 6 months to a year, but that was with only 1-2 ppl, not showering ecery day, and washing machine waste diverted to a soakaway

Hoploz

ognum wrote: »

It is where this house is!

... Cryptic

jimbog

I would kick up a right old stink if it was me

slopemaster

jimbog wrote: »

I would kick up a right old stink if it was me

Well, your username seems apt...

PaulCooper

We've got a septic tank, great things, we've been here 23 years and had it emptied twice, works well. All toilet waste, plus grey water from the house goes down there- as others have said, only use bleach etc that is septic tank friendly (not difficult to get) They work better full (lots of bugs doing their job)
On an even more positive note, it's saved me a fortune in water rates, we only pay about 20% of the normal water rates.
Don't worry about it, by choice, I'd have a septic tank over mains drainage
Paul

Elfbert

Where I grew up we had a septic tank. It wasn't huge, and was emptied about every ten years. It is very old - a big concrete tank with concrete 'sleepers' on top that you have to lift off to check it.

My folks use bacteria bombs just to keep it happy - not all the time, but you can tell if it's not working perfectly (there have been times when septic-tank unfriendly cleaning products have been used in error, so bacteria bombs just top up the system.) You just flush them down the loo and all the wee bacteria get to work!