When you flush the loo, do you ever imagine where "it" goes? well one day I'm going to be able to do just that and know exactly where it's going, as we have got to know the innermost workings of our drains. The past week and a bit have seen the groundworkers finally back working on the house after setting the garage to one side for the time being, and the foul water drainage getting put in place. We have several soil vent pipes whose locations we've carefully chosen, and they've been bedded into shingle filled channels, interspersed with numerous inspection chambers. We need an inspection chamber for each change of direction, plus a special one called a "backdrop" where there's a big change in level coming from the en-suite bathroom at the back of the house. "Stuff" flows down the pipe then falls down a vertical drop before heading off further, turning right at the corner at the front, round the front of the house through a couple more chambers, then turns left at the corner of the garage where another drain run from the other side joins in! One last run down to a big manhole then it's straight down to the sewers.
Like a ride in water flumes!
The inspection chambers across the front of the house had some 'rings' on top of them to take their lids to somewhere around future ground level, but these have since been removed, so we currently have the lids directly on top of the inspection chambers and plenty of soil/ground above. This is so during construction work the drains are adequately protected from any diggers etc driving above them. Fingers crossed.
And it continued raining...
It was roundabout now that my Mum had a stroke. Thankfully she got taken to hospital very quickly and all was OK once she had the vital injection. She was back talking and moving normally within an hour or so but was kept in for a few days for checks. Thankfully "released" the day before her 74th birthday so she was home for that! It's never a good time for family to become ill, felt at the time like we really could have done without that extra panic and worry right then. Mum's walking OK now too. Phew :-)
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