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Post by tomplum on Mar 23, 2023 22:12:25 GMT
I once did when i worked for Manchester council maintenance, The girl in the office warned me that it was gruesome and I was up to the challenge, Someone had to do it , right, So i did it I cleared it, the girl in the office asked me, " how did you shift that Tom ?" I told her I syphoned it out with a tube, it took a bit of sucking to get it flowing " She could't eat her dinner that day ...  |
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Post by crowsfoot on Mar 24, 2023 9:48:08 GMT
It was an "on your way in (blocked toilet)" Friday special and what we didn't know was every other council plumber had refused it. By chance we had some thick large brown bags and a spare WC pan on our van. We put the bag over the pan and levered the whole stinking lot up with a cold chisel then turned the bag upside down. Downstairs and outside with it, we then cleaned up the shitted floor with old newspapers (one wipe and in the brown bag was our ruling). We did the whole job in about 15mins!!! "Ding dong" the door bell went just as we were cleaning up the shit with the old newspapers. I opened the door with a shitted newspaper in one hand to reveal a very smartly dressed man and woman who introduced themselves by saying "hello we are health visitors" ! I often wondered what they're thoughts were on arriving at this scene at this exact moment in time ? NB Afterwards it occurred to me that it was too much of a coincidence for this to happen. Hence, after filling the toilet with shit the tenants themselves must have rung up the councils health department when all the other plumbers that had visited refused to do the job! Moral of the story is "Never answer your phone/radio on a Friday afternoon"! |
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Post by DIYDafty on Mar 24, 2023 20:56:15 GMT
I'm obviously a wet behind the ears dafty but what I don't understand is why they didn't get some cleaners in first ?
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Post by dickpuller on Mar 24, 2023 21:04:50 GMT
As an apprentice, it was common to clean out Septic Tanks.
1 or 2 a year was normal & it was done with a Bucket & Rope.
Generally it was two of us that carried out this grim task, over a couple of days.
Traditionally, you got a bottle of Whisky to ease the pain. So you had two days on the Piss. However, you were warned; don’t get too pissed, you could fall in & meet a very smelly, disgusting demise!!
Blocked Drains was something else we did back in the day, Drain Rods dripping with shit & no gloves either!!
You go home after work, scrub your hands, have a Bath & you could still smell the shit off your hands in the Pub😂😂
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Post by joinerjohn on Mar 25, 2023 1:14:18 GMT
I once helped a mate with a similar situation. Ended up digging almost 15yds of clay pipe out of the ground from where the toilet was to the manhole down the garden. Broke the clay pipe up into about 2ft sections, solid with shite. Replaced finally with 4” plastic. Pipe was dug down to by a mini digger and uncovered. 2 days of probably the most horrendous job I’d ever helped out on. Why they didn’t just use the mini digger to lift the pipe, I don’t know.
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