of sunny days and septic tanks

Categories: life-in-general

Date: 25 November 2012 05:23:44

yes, it is a beautiful day in north west Tasmania, the sun is shining, it's currently 20C with a UV index of 10.7 (extremely high), the sky is blue, there's a tiny breeze, the birds are singing, and Mr Tasmania is out on the lawn mowing, adding a little touch of noise pollution - all is right with the world ....

Now.

Another of the delights of rural living is having a septic tank ... something which is not thought about at all, most of the time ... until it shoves itself into your consciousness in such a way that you cannot avoid it ... bugger ...

Minor blockage / explosion in one of the pipes this morning (not too bad as these things go, could've been ENORMOUSLY worse), plumber on Sunday call out $300, couldn't do anything as septic tank needed a pumpout - he reckoned that would fix the blockage.

Lots of phone calls and $400 later the man came to do the pumpout ... which was great actually, as he showed us how we could've fixed the blockage ourselves and saved not only the $300 for the useless (and lazy, as he could've done this bit!!!) plumber but also the $180 extra it costs for a weekend pumpout call out. We would still have needed the pumpout but could've done it during the week ...

ah well, live and learn, we'll never need a plumber for this sort of issue again ... and at least it was a lovely sunny day, imagine trying to sort all that out in the middle of winter in the wind and freezing rain!!!!