Bank holiday blues - ..bloody drains

Foul and surface water, private drains and public sewers, land drains and soakaways, filter drains and any other ways of getting rid of water.
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Tony McC
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Post: # 18450Post Tony McC

It had to happen. A long weekend approaches, I've been burning the candle at both ends to try to catch up with everything so I can have a couple of days in me garden while the weather is good, and then the bloody kitchen waste starts overflowing.

I jetted it, and no real improvement, so I got the son & heir to lift the MH cover in the middle of the drive only to be welcomed by a chamber full to within 200mm of the top, and the obligatory bits of corn floating in the brown soup. Not sure where the corn came from - we've not had it for months!

So, instead of sorting out me fuchsias, I've got a morning with the drain rods and smelly gloves ahead of me. :angry:
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Post: # 18452Post nelly05

Nasty, we had this a few weeks back when sorting some stuff.

A quick call to a lad we know at dyno rod sorted the prob - £20 done and dusted.

Once i get most of the MOT out of the drain ill be giving him a shout to jet it all clear.

Njoi Tony, think of the cool beer at the end of the job

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ps Sunday & Monday will rain anyway ;)
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Post: # 18454Post seanandruby

It was a Friday late afternoon on a new build. i was battling against time to finish a patio. site agent asked me, to look at a drain that was blocked ( people had moved in ) . They were all there, husband, wife and finishing foreman. i took the lid off the pot and it was full ( corn also ) . Do i waste time getting the gloves, or, take the plunge? with a pint of Guinness waiting for me, i took the plunge. Without being to graphic i pulled out a brick and the lot went, disturbing the smell and leaving my arm....well i will leave that up to your imagination. ill never forget the site of three grown ups, retching, throwing up and choking with the smell etc. i cracked up as i went off to wash. never did get a drink off them. :laugh:
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Brave lad! I wouldn't have done that!
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Post: # 18460Post bobhughes

I have this “problem� that I have little or no sense of smell. OK I get grief from the GLW when I don’t notice the new perfume, but when it comes to changing nappies or clearing drains it’s a definite advantage.
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Post: # 18478Post TheVictorianCobbleCo

Clay loo pipes, cracked by root growth, every three months or so, lid off, sainsburys packets, (dishwashing gloves not long enough), down on your belly, reach as deep as possible into pipe and pull out lengths of root grown in rich well watered ***, and the kids stand around (well off) and say, Is there anything we can do to help? Something like 8 years of that, then buy a town house so that it becomes someone elses problem.
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Post: # 18513Post lutonlagerlout

ready to hit the seaside friday at 1
mrs LLL says i think the rear tyre needs some air
i look at it
its a blow out
all cases out of car
put the bottletop spare on and head down kwikfit
kerr-ching that will be £150 please sir
get to highcliffe then realise that 4 yr old has smuggled the dog into the car with her
ring up 7 local kennels ,all fully booked except the last one
he says no probs £8 a night
"just bring his inoculation certificates with you" :(
230 mile round trip back to luton to drop the dog off with an aunty
and the missus reckoned i was a miserable sod all weekend
cant think why?
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Post: # 18516Post Stuarty

I cant help but laugh! Poor bugger, mind you ive not been able to do anything this bank hol, ankle is 3 times its usual size and a lovely mix of blue / black and purlple :(

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Post: # 18518Post lutonlagerlout

i tell you what stuarty the air was blue friday night going back up the m27,m3 m25 and m1 and then all the way back down again
put it this way,i do NOT need a sat nav to find highcliffe now
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Post: # 18520Post seanandruby

dont they have canals and lumps of concrete down there then? :D thought my w'kend was bad enough cos done my back in. Now you've made it hurt more making me laugh :laugh:
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Post: # 18522Post Dave_L

I've got a stinking cold, but that's nothing in comparison to your crap experience Tony! :angry:
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Post: # 18523Post Dave_L

lutonlagerlout wrote:put the bottletop spare on and head down kwikfit
kerr-ching that will be £150 please sir
Well....you will drive these expensive Scandinavian cars!
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