The man with the tank, the same lorry and man as last year, came this morning. We attached a piece of 68mm diameter plastic drain pipe on to the massive end of his flexible rubber hose, because his hose has a huge metal coupling unit that is far too big to get pass various internal […]
A year on and it is time to empty our septic tank. The water was starting to go murky so we ordered the man with his smelly lorry to come and suck out all the waste and water from our tank. We then gave it a quick wash down inside but it was fairly clean […]
The man with the smelly lorry came this morning to do our regular emptying of our Septic Processing Tank. It is almost a year since the last one. We then did some pressurised washing inside the chamber and down the pipes going off to our leech field and get everything ready for another year. In […]
This morning, we had the Septic Tank serviced and emptied. We then gave it a once over, cleaning the various inlet and outlet pipes to make sure they were all cleared and flowing nicely. Also, the electric air pump was opened up to check the moving parts were all clean and in good working order. […]
Today, again with marvellous weather, we finished filling in the trenches that has the sewage pipelines in. The trench cutting across the driveway and footpath was carefully layered with regular compacting with our now fully working vibrator machine. We used some of the left-over hardcore material on the last 8 inches and finally topped with […]
This afternoon, we started putting all the dirt and soil back into all the trenches of our three sewage pipe runs. We began at the trench cutting across our driveway, so that area can be made safe again for us and visitors. But we hit a slight problem with the petrol engine driven vibrating machine, […]
This afternoon, our building control inspector, Ken, came along and look at our sewage lines. He went around asking questions about what that line is for and what this sewage line is for, but he was quietly pleased with our quality of our work and gave us the nod!! We can now start filling in […]
Today, in the morning, we finished off the 3rd and final pipe run. We bedded it down with the gravel and used the laser level machine to determine and make sure the slope is maintained all the way along the sewage pipe!! Now we await for the building inspector, Ken, to come and have a […]
Today, in glorious sunshine for most of the day, we completed the 2nd line of sewage pipes and got it bedded down in gravel before any further possible collapses of trench walls!! Nothing did after all but .. ! The 3rd and final trench is now cut, and the pipe has been fitted together. We […]
We have dug out the trench for the second sewer pipe today. We dug most of it by hand as it was shallow and easy to dig. We stopped when we realized we needed a 15 degree bend in the pipe and we only had 11.5 and 22 degree bends in stock. Stephen went and […]