WhiskyLassie
Well-Known Member
Morning folks.
Glad it's Wednesday and it's a 4 day week.
Glad it's Wednesday and it's a 4 day week.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Does yer fink he gorrin frew a rust ole int bulkhead or the gap round the doors?
Mornin all.
Raining here, so this has stopped play in the mudhole.
W coming back today so at least this will give me time to straighten the place up a bit. At least there is only a tiny amount of washing up to do.
Raining here, so this has stopped play in the mudhole.
W coming back today so at least this will give me time to straighten the place up a bit. At least there is only a tiny amount of washing up to do.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Eye has fallen oot wiv me garage roof. When rain water falls onnit it dun't go in me water butts. They take far too long to fill up which makes me fink we is losing water. Eye has tipped water int guttering to see wot happens when it fills no 1 water butt. It will flow to no 2. But after the rain we had yesdi that started just before eye left for wuk, no 2 ain't filled up. No 1 was alread full. Its a corrugated roof wiv moss onnit. Last nite eye started to knock some of the moss oft. Also washed oot the guttering. Did notice some water dun't drain oot ovvit. It did before. Its as if me garage has tipped the other way. Finking of filling it wiv a bit of water to see how much flows the wrong way and settles. The rain yesdi was small drop but a lot ovvit and constant.
Does sound a bit weird.
Have you put a long spirit level on your gutter to see where it is sloping, if at all?
I take it your butts are connected at the top end of them?
Good idea to take the moss off, it can block things.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Not seen me squirrel ferra few days. It's back this morning. 4th nut already. Another one came down me drive. Climbed the fence un went on me garage. Eye opened me top window to prepare to drop a nut oot burrit scared him oft. Friendly one has just eatid the fith nut on me patio then came back for his 6th wiv me still at the door. Taken that under me naybors fence. This be live news. Keep putting me fone down to go oot to feed him. So this post has taken a while to type up.
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Hippo
Lord Hippo
Yup all connections are at the top. Eye will top up me water butts above the taps at the bottom to see if they could be leaking. No sign ovvit so eye ruled it oot but yer never know.
In with all the work I am doing at the moment with the septic tank, I am pumping water from our undergound rain collecting tank, which is of the same design and next to it.
So I have the lid open a bit. Yessdi or the day before, just after all the rain filled it up I noticed I think three bits of moss floating in it.
So these had come off the roof, along the gutter, down the down pipe and along the underground pipes until they ended up in the tank. Quite surprising. They were floating, just. so i have to assume that they either end up going out of the overflow or rotting down and the bits sinking to the bottom. At least they never clog the pump.
Now I has me Karcher I might find myself getting up on the roof and spraying them off! I'll have to block the gutter down pipefirst though!
You are right, we had one tap connector go fubar, and they are a pain to fix as you need 6 foot long arms!
W heard last night that one of our grandsons proposed to his GF 2 months ago. (why no one told us I don't know!) So although 4 out of the 6 are living with a partner their's will be the first wedding. Quite looking forward to it!
(The other two are still in school and don't even have a GF or a BF as far as we can tell!)
W went to a car show while in Blighty. She only took pics of one car, a thing called a Coventry Mawdslay. Looks like a big beast with a straight six engine or maybe a straight 8 made by combining two four pots, but the pics she sent me were not very big at all. The exhausts I suppose could have been somewhat Siamesed.
Anyway, there you go!
Have a good one folks!
(The other two are still in school and don't even have a GF or a BF as far as we can tell!)
W went to a car show while in Blighty. She only took pics of one car,
a thing called a Coventry Mawdslay. Looks like a big beast with a straight six engine or maybe a straight 8 made by combining two four pots, but the pics she sent me were not very big at all. The exhausts I suppose could have been somewhat Siamesed. Anyway, there you go!
Have a good one folks!
Hippo
Lord Hippo
Little squirrel on me garage apex scared oft when eye opened me window earlier. Normal one on his 14th nut. Another big one from me drive climbed down me fence. Dropped a nut oot me kitchen window which he went for. He has been back and sat on the fence watching somefink ont patio. This triggered me to look oot the window. Me normal squirrel is there sat on me hudgehog feederer box. Eye go oot and give him a nut when he comes close. Eye fink the sound of the nut hitting me patio was enuff to tempt the other big one to climb down. That and seeing the normal one on me slabs gerrin nuts. Eye hears this and pop me head round the corner. He's onnis back legs looking at me kitchen window. Gorra white fliffy tummy. Looks at me and eye drops a nut to him. Go goes ferrit. Bingo. Me second one fed close while ootside. He's been back anuvva 3 times. Went oot each time to drop a nut. He climbs me fence to go down me drive then comes back that way laterer on. Normal one keeps coming back so eye is feeding them as they both appear.
Origionally they were all floor fed by leaving nuts oot in the same area by me patio doors. Several left then putting one more oot when they were gone, which got them seeing me at me closed patio door or window when coming back. Eye stopped this and dropped em from me upstairs window then laterer on me kitchen window, to associate me wiv giving food. This has built up trust that eye can now go oot to feed on me patio.
They have had 5 and about 20 nuts so far smornin. Eye can only recognise them by the direction they come/go and how nervous they is to come close before a nut is dropped.
Origionally they were all floor fed by leaving nuts oot in the same area by me patio doors. Several left then putting one more oot when they were gone, which got them seeing me at me closed patio door or window when coming back. Eye stopped this and dropped em from me upstairs window then laterer on me kitchen window, to associate me wiv giving food. This has built up trust that eye can now go oot to feed on me patio.
They have had 5 and about 20 nuts so far smornin. Eye can only recognise them by the direction they come/go and how nervous they is to come close before a nut is dropped.
Hippo
Lord Hippo
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Stone56
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I think it's basically a tumbling bay vertical pipe with a bend at the bottom but with no seperater at the top? ?Feeling for you Stan
So I am still having a problem visualizing this pipe with the problem.
Is it after the tank or before?
If you are ramming a bar down and hammering it are you sure you are not breaking the pipe itself? Surely its only plastic pipe?
If you had it draining a bit then it stopped something has dragged some more stuff down.
For my money not really knowing, cos we don have a pic, not sure we need 1 though
So in the absence of a pressure washer I would say.
If you can get to where you think the blockage is with your bar, (assuming your caustic doesn't work) Tape a hose to it and run HOT water down the hose, small bore hose hot water at mains pressure will clear a fat ball may take a while, But where do you chase it too?
I do relate with your plight having been through a few blocked drains (not here). we have pics of a lot of stuff during building works and they have come in so useful.
J
Stone56
Well-Known Member
Or to pull it out
