Yet to hear back from W as to how the visit went.
Don't bode well methinks.
And at this end things have really gone poop.
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![Crying face :cry: 😢](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
Found that the bloke who fitted the septic tank made a right cheap job of it. The exit from the tank is a right angled bit of drain pipe, one end goes into the tank, the other end goes DOWN. Well, fiddling about with it in a small ditch I had to dig to try and clear the overflow away I realised that the down pipe ended about 18" down and was supposed to be connected to yet another pipe that went even further down, presumably until it was/is nearly at the bottom of the outside of the tank. The barstaff who fitted it never glued hardly any of the pipes together, apparently it is straditional not to do so over here. So this pipe will be nearly 2 metres long. So most of it is buried and most of it is full of sludge. I rammed a mining bar down it to see if I could clear it, the bar kept feeling like it was hitting concrete then it was suddenly go through but only up to another bit of solid. The bar isn't long enough and it doesn't move from side to side at all, so whatever is down there is flipping tough stuff.
I need a longer mining bar for a start and to clear all the waste "water" from the pipe so I can chuck powerful drain cleaner down. I don't have a sludge pump so all I can think of at the mo is to fabricate some sort of a syphon out of old swimming pool pipe or watering hose, But I won't be sucking on the end of that to start it off!
Hope your days are going better.