My easter Sunday Morning - long

Huggles

Got up good and early all set for the family coming for a lovely roast dinner later on. I let the dogs into the garden and I am horrified to see sewage floating down the garden from the drain trap near the back door.

Now, I live in a cul de sac and because I am in the corner my garden has THREE large Man holes which cover the massive four foot deep sewage chambers. I go outside and check teh first one, full, second one, full and finally third one (one before it goes into main chamber on the road and its full also) I get the sewage rods from the residents association and I get going.

Imagine my horror when I see it is blocked because my genius next door neighbour poured down wet plaster which hardened in the pipe like concrete. That plus the ladies on the other side of me keep flushing those rough and smooth kitchen cleaning pads that don't disintegrate. I eventually managed to dislodge it all and I sorted it, but I have a pile of the said cleaning cloths and a massive tube shaped lump of plaster in a bag in my garden and I am going to take pics and type a nasty letter to the six houses that my man holes take in.

I know the system as my grandad worked for dublin corp sewage all his life.

So will i send the nasty letter or will they tell me to F off? Realistically I saved them all hundreds of euro in Dyno rod fees!

Rant over! :mad:

Ruu_Old

Get it off yer chest there, pah at neighbours. Bet they didnt get off their arses to lend you a hand!:mad:

robinph

Make up an invoice from Dynorod and charge them anyway.

gandalf

Nope I would make sure you send that letter out. I would also go and have a quiet word with the person responsible for putting plaster down into the sewers because he is obviously an idiot of the highest order.

Rb

Don't let it go ignored anyway.

whiskeyman

TheGooner wrote:

because my genius next door neighbour poured down wet plaster which hardened in the pipe like concrete.

Can he be reported to the council for this?
The pipes are their property after all...

Huggles

Thanks for your replies guys. Thought it was just me that thought it was insanely stupid to pour plaster down the sewage drain. ARRRGHH Still raging.

To the Mods, how do I move this?? I have seen similar threads to this so thought it was ok to get general advice?

Dooom

Ruu wrote:

Get it off yer chest there, pah at neighbours. Bet they didnt get off their arses to lend you a hand!:mad:

If anything, I'd say they stayed on their arses and added to his troubles..:D

Ahem, anyway. Yeah defo send the letter out and make sure it's extra angry.

Huggles

don't know about reporting. He saw me doing it from teh window and ducked back inside! twatt!

Huggles

Spike wrote:

If anything, I'd say they stayed on their arses and added to his troubles..:D

Ahem, anyway. Yeah defo send the letter out and make sure it's extra angry.

I am a girl and I was alone, and he saw me and didn't come out to help.

Ruu_Old

Lazy shower 'a bastids, bring him his plaster back on the front doorstep!

gandalf

TheGooner wrote:

I am a girl and I was alone, and he saw me and didn't come out to help.

The twat saw you and didn't even come out to help. Feck having a word with him and use those cleaning rods for an alternative purpose.

People like him are there to be rooted out by natural selection.

(btw the way in the same boat here, corner house with 3 manhole covers into the sewers. I don't even bother rodding them anymore, I just call Dynorod and charge the neighbours. We used to have a problem with people putting chip pan grease down and nappies!! Since I have started this they seem to have copped on and we don't call Dynorod out as much anymore.)

Mossy Monk

Ruu wrote:

Lazy shower 'a bastids, bring him his plaster back on the front doorstep!

good idea. give the **** back what's his

Rb

Sure you've the lot of it in your back garden, just bag it up and drop it back to their front doorstep.
What they did was extremely inconsiderate and you'd want to be retarded to go pouring wet plaster down it.
Leave a strong worded letter with your parcels too.

Huggles

gandalf wrote:

The twat saw you and didn't even come out to help. Feck having a word with him and use those cleaning rods for an alternative purpose.

People like him are there to be rooted out by natural selection.

(btw the way in the same boat here, corner house with 3 manhole covers into the sewers. I don't even bother rodding them anymore, I just call Dynorod and charge the neighbours. We used to have a problem with people putting chip pan grease down and nappies!! Since I have started this they seem to have copped on and we don't call Dynorod out as much anymore.)

Yep, yep he saw me and didn't come out to help. Even if he hadn't of seen me he would have smelled it. The flyover was happening and it came right over teh houses and he looked up at planes, down at me and shot back behind teh curtain. Agggggghh!

The Doktor

oooh...Id deliver the plaster back to him, with a bit of extra sewage for good measure, and Id post the cloths in through his letter box!!!
Had this before, where a neighbour of a mate had put a childs buggy down a manhole!!!:mad:

Huggles

The Doktor wrote:

oooh...Id deliver the plaster back to him, with a bit of extra sewage for good measure, and Id post the cloths in through his letter box!!!
Had this before, where a neighbour of a mate had put a childs buggy down a manhole!!!:mad:

Sorry, a CHILDS BUGGY, how is that possible??

cormie

Make some paper mache Easter Eggs out of the cloths (no need to add dye them brown, they are already that colour:eek: ) and give one to each of your neighbours:cool:

FuzzyWuzzyWazza

TheGooner wrote:

Yep, yep he saw me and didn't come out to help. Even if he hadn't of seen me he would have smelled it. The flyover was happening and it came right over teh houses and he looked up at planes, down at me and shot back behind teh curtain. Agggggghh!

Thats just not right, bleedin' moron. Had a sewage problem in a house I was renting last year, the drains kept backing up and sewage would fill the kitchen sink!! After many de-cloggings finally discivered that the bloke who 'earted' the house drove the cable right through the middle of the drain!! and it would clog up over time.

Some people don't deserve to procreate.

The Doktor

TheGooner wrote:

Sorry, a CHILDS BUGGY, how is that possible??

Thats what I thought till I saw it!!... it was an OLD estate, and had BIG sewers. They lifted the manhole, threw it down, and it went down the pipe a bit.

Huggles

Yeah the chambers we have here you could easily sit in them and hide. if you where that desperate to hide, i swear to god i can still smell it. Just goes to show you that some peple only look out for themselves, and nobody else.

Rb

Charge those responsible whatever dynorod would usually charge.

Lump

TBH, you went messing in the sewers... you should have gone through the proper channels... To do it and then claim money for it, I'm sure you'll be told to **** off.

John

Huggles

Messing in the sewers?? You make it sound like I did it for the craic. It was over flowing in my garden and I merely wanted advice on whether to send a nasty letter or not. Someone else mentioned charging dyno rod prices. I went throught the 'proper channels' in the past and Dublin Corporation informed me that because the manholes where on my property that I would need to clear it myself! :mad:

Ruu_Old

Hehe no one is going to come out on a Sunday to clean your sewers, leaving it there would cause a health hazard.

Huggles

Ruu wrote:

Hehe no one is going to come out on a Sunday to clean your sewers, leaving it there would cause a health hazard.

exactly!

Rb

So they're your property?Is there any way you could block others from using it(seeing as it is your property) until they can act responsibly?

Huggles

Yeah was thinking of doing something like that but it had gotten to the point of over flowing into my garden so EVERYONE must have known it was backed up. Nobody wanted to deal with paying for it though. Selfish bastards.

Rb

well, could you not block it far enough up so that if it overflows, it'll flow into someone elses garden?
There has to be a way.
That or you could start charging maintenance costs to it annually.