The plop-age chronicles! Oh bums I'll have no internerd connection for a bit

neverdespairgirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

No, keep them all safe and have a monthly raft race... perhaps for charity.
Invite the press.

Donations in aid of Clean Water for Africans or something appropriate.

Clean Water for Manchunians, perhaps?

missprint

Pipes always run to the lowest point and streams are naturally in that position too. We had a stream at the bottom of our last property and the manifold was literally in the stream bed, but obviously not in any way connected to the water. The inlet pipes come in higher up in the manifold structure and material falls into the interior. At the bottom (which can be lower than the stream bed) there will be an enclosed outlet pipe taking material away to be processed. Our outlet pipe blocked and the back pressure blew the lid off the manifold, allowing the stream to become polluted. The water board tried to get us to pay for repairs, but as the inlet pipes from our property were intact and the problem was the outlet pipe, we refused and heard nothing more about it.

missprint

Also, how long did you wait to see if the milk appeared after flushing? Your back garden looks to be quite a distance to the stream. One flush doesn't necessarily carry all the way at once, and there may be another drainage structure between the house and the manifold where material gets 'delayed'.

real1314

A food dye through the kitchen sink might be a better test, it should drain through the same system and would be easier to develop a continuos flow that can be checked?

PasturesNew

missprint wrote: »

Also, how long did you wait to see if the milk appeared after flushing? Your back garden looks to be quite a distance to the stream. One flush doesn't necessarily carry all the way at once, and there may be another drainage structure between the house and the manifold where material gets 'delayed'.

So you're suggesting that what nelly's really done is show us all his own poo... great.

Thank goodness for the Internet, what did we do for entertainment before, eh?

missprint

Greywater drainage usually doesn't get dumped into the sewage system, mostly it joins surface water drainage. So dye down the sink may not be helpful either.

real1314

I thought kitchen sink water went into the sewage system? What happens with waste disposal stuff then? Anyway if the kitchen sink doesn't, the bathroom basin almost certainly will.

I'm fairly certain that only rainwater can be drained via the surface water route.

missprint

Detergents seriously disrupt the natural breakdown processes of sewage. There are some combined foulwater and greywater systems but mostly they are kept separate and greywater drains with surface water.

olibrofiz

Just read this thread, hillarious!! But nasty too... Then went out to collect my doggies 'sculptures' off the lawn and came up with this brainwave

Invite each set of neighbours, individually, and at say 4 day intervals, round for some grub - anything laced with vast amounts of CORN.

Sit back with ya binoculars and wait :rotfl: :rotfl:

Hey ho said Nelly, I've had enough
Of this crap floating in the culvert
I'll stuff them naybahs with corn
See what happens by morn
Then ring up them tw*ts from the Govt

nelly_2

Right my bogs deffinately dont go to this pipe 100% certain.

The rainwater gullys for my house DO attach to that pipe which is ok cos is fresh water.

However the nob who owned it has attached the sink and utility water to these gullys.

So I'll have to redirect them to the manhole but that aint a problem, I've done loads of drainage work over the years.

We aint moved in yet, not moving for 4 weeks so I can get a load of work done without bothing about the mess and having all our stuff in me way