If that includes the contents the landlord will make a few quid on the houseplants.the grass isnt always greener as they say infact it will be burnt to a crisp now good old insurance will have to pay out if its rented
If that includes the contents the landlord will make a few quid on the houseplants.the grass isnt always greener as they say infact it will be burnt to a crisp now good old insurance will have to pay out if its rented
Some hours later after she hit concrete, we ended up here.
Definitely not, we had to put one in, no toilet here, when we bought the house.Fosse septique ?
Same here, though we’re now on the mainsDefinitely not, we had to put one in, no toilet here, when we bought the house.
A thunderbox out back.
Lucky you.Same here, though we’re now on the mains
We are getting a few strawbs each day from inside the glasshouse . Thank god for micro misting & Tomorite plantA few hours on the Allotment yesterday, got my beans planted out amongst other jobs.
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Plenty there to see me and the Mrs through the summer.
And taking @DAPPH advice to keep a few back to replace the snail food.
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More importantly though, it won't be long now until we're into the Broad beans (Broad Bean and Pea risotto, made with allotment fresh beans and peas is the absolute best), and hopefully the Strawberries won't be far behind.
Plenty to look forward too over the coming months and a bit of repayment for all the digging and weeding.
Now that is a decent strong " A " frame plant up on both sides a variety of different climbing bean types .Right or wrong I've started stringing the frame with coir rope. Round turn and two half hitches top and bottom. I've left a 6" tail at the bottom:
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Some of my international gardeners are using stopped end guttering & gravity fed nutrients feeding strawberries growing in a soil less grown medium .And if anyone is short of storage, a length of plastic gutter bolted to the wall of your greenhouse makes good use of empty space:
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I'm currently storing bamboo canes in this one but they're ideal for growing anything that doesn't need much depth of compost such as radishes.
When we had the septic tank set up at the old gated railway crossing cottage .Lucky you.
Been over 5 years now, dreading the day it needs a pump out, or the pump (pompe de relevage) dies.
But not having mains sewerage halves the old water bill.
We're careful, eparcyl every weekish, when I remember.
If that includes the contents the landlord will make a few quid on the houseplants.
That's interesting, we're really careful, Eparcyl is a thing you chuck in every week, like yogurt.When we had the septic tank set up at the old gated railway crossing cottage .
I spoke with the farmer who also pumped septic tanks out locally . I asked him to do ours ( for £ 35 ) with his sludge gulping hippo slurry unit . He took one look in the tank and said , " In the 30 years I've been emptying I've never done this property Dave , looking at the nice light pea soup colour and the few darkish floaters on the top , your tank is in fantastic condition everything is breaking down to liquids and running out the soak-away " .
One thing he also said is that , " If you ever get put on a course of strong antibiotics it can kill the action of the tank. So if that happens buy a litre of natural yoghurt and flush it down the toilet to get it working again " .
That's interesting, we're really careful, Eparcyl is a thing you chuck in every week, like yogurt.
Assumed no matter what, it would need pumping occasionally, well fingers crossed.
If it ain't broken, don't fix it.I only found ours after living here for 20 years in 2018. Never been pumped in all that time. Like a brick beehive. Built circa 1950.
Not sure if it's a septic tank or cess pool tbh. Rumour is that they would build these, get it passed then knock a few bricks out the bottom when passed.
The loos were backing up and clay pipes blocked. Found a pink toothbrush wedged across a junction my daughter must have flushed when little. Bless!
Paid a guy to come and pump it out and he said to leave some stuff in the bottom to keep it working and doing its thing.
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If I had my way I'd clear the whole area, put a treatment plant in, new drains etc and fill this one in.
When sorting it I had to balance on the ladder, lean in with a rake and hook a slow worm that had fallen into it and was slithering around on the "crust".
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Sounds like you have what is known as a rainwater bottle well . Many as you say were converted to the new flushing toilets' receptor tanks having had the bottom 2 sq foot of bricks knocked out & new steel galv lid arrangements put in place instead of the three inch cast concrete lid with a 2 foot cast iron manhole lid that used to be over the well .I only found ours after living here for 20 years in 2018. Never been pumped in all that time. Like a brick beehive. Built circa 1950.
Not sure if it's a septic tank or cess pool tbh. Rumour is that they would build these, get it passed then knock a few bricks out the bottom when passed.
The loos were backing up and clay pipes blocked. Found a pink toothbrush wedged across a junction my daughter must have flushed when little. Bless!
Paid a guy to come and pump it out and he said to leave some stuff in the bottom to keep it working and doing its thing.
Wee video clip:
If I had my way I'd clear the whole area, put a treatment plant in, new drains etc and fill this one in.
When sorting it I had to balance on the ladder, lean in with a rake and hook a slow worm that had fallen into it and was slithering around on the "crust".
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Mustapha Crackatit
I don't want to takeover this thread, but I'm quite interested.So long as everything that goes in the tank is bio degradable.... if the tank has a large enough capacity /is big enough it will turn to a watery liquid and pass out along the soak away. Disinfectants bio action soap powders / liquids and baby bottle sterilizer fluids & excessive use of bleaches can also slow the tanks action considerably .
IIRC our septic tank was built in the early 1960's by the railway company and had a volume of 12 foot long by six by six deep , the inlet was via a 4 inch salt glazed T joint where the top to the T was vertical .. this is so the inlet can be rodded with ease if it gets blocked .
The outlet to the 50 yard deep rubble filled soak away was the other side of a hit & miss floor to ceiling brick wall , the salt glazed outlet pipe was arranged like a J syphon , long bottom end about three feet down in the fluids at the out going wall , actual out let pipe through the wall a mere foot or so down down the wall . Arranged like this so that no floaters or toilet paper got in the soak-away outlet pipe .