Soakaway.

[Oilybloke]

'fternoon all.......My workshop is not connected to mains drains, so all waste from the site (which is two large houses, four workshops & twelve portacabins which are farmworkers accommodation) drains into three holding tanks and is pumped up to a soakaway. I'm putting about 1000 litres per week of methy/glycy wash water into this, and am wondering if I am doing the system any damage. Chatting with the landlord this morning, he told me that he has had some problems with blockages, and whilst he wasn't blaming me, he has never had this problem before. Any thoughts?

[photoman290]

sodium  or potassium? i suspect if it is sodium it isnt helping.

[Oilybloke]

sodium  or potassium? i suspect if it is sodium it isnt helping.

KOH.

[Jamesrl]

'fternoon all.......My workshop is not connected to mains drains, so all waste from the site (which is two large houses, four workshops & twelve portacabins which are farmworkers accommodation) drains into three holding tanks and is pumped up to a soakaway. I'm putting about 1000 litres per week of methy/glycy wash water into this, and am wondering if I am doing the system any damage. Chatting with the landlord this morning, he told me that he has had some problems with blockages, and whilst he wasn't blaming me, he has never had this problem before. Any thoughts?

You're a very naughty boy, very naughty.

[Oilybloke]

'fternoon all.......My workshop is not connected to mains drains, so all waste from the site (which is two large houses, four workshops & twelve portacabins which are farmworkers accommodation) drains into three holding tanks and is pumped up to a soakaway. I'm putting about 1000 litres per week of methy/glycy wash water into this, and am wondering if I am doing the system any damage. Chatting with the landlord this morning, he told me that he has had some problems with blockages, and whilst he wasn't blaming me, he has never had this problem before. Any thoughts?

You're a very naughty boy, very naughty.

Jim, many thanks for your concise & relevant comment. Was it yourself that wanted a bag of spuds delivered for yours & Mrs. Jamesrl's sunday dinner?

[Chug]

yes if its sitting in tanks the glyc and soap will settle and clump.

[Jamesrl]

You're a very naughty boy, very naughty.

Jim, many thanks for your concise & relevant comment. Was it yourself that wanted a bag of spuds delivered for yours & Mrs. Jamesrl's sunday dinner?
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To Late now innit, we've had lunch so don't try to crawl round me now.

[Oilybloke]

You're a very naughty boy, very naughty.

Jim, many thanks for your concise & relevant comment. Was it yourself that wanted a bag of spuds delivered for yours & Mrs. Jamesrl's sunday dinner?

To Late now innit, we've had lunch so don't try to crawl round me now.
[/quote]Here's one for you to enjoy Jim............when we first moved in there, the plumber came round to sort out the necessary loo, water feeds, soil pipes etc. A couple of months later, the local environment agency started snooping around outside, saying that there was a problem with contamination into a stream that was used for back-up to a small pumping station owned  the waterworks company. There's me confidently telling them that I was all kosher, nothing to do with me guv. It transpires that our plumber had connected our soil pipe to the rainwater drain, and we had contaminated this very valuable & clean stream (including killing the Koi carp, which happened to belong to a solicitor's wife, in a pond that was fed by the stream). EA were very good about it, and told us that the methy/soapy water that we were chucking in there, was absorbing loads of oxygen so killing off all the flora & fauna. Only took a couple of weeks to get back to normal though.

[Jamesrl]

Here's one for you to enjoy Jim............when we first moved in there, the plumber came round to sort out the necessary loo, water feeds, soil pipes etc. A couple of months later, the local environment agency started snooping around outside, saying that there was a problem with contamination into a stream that was used for back-up to a small pumping station owned  the waterworks company. There's me confidently telling them that I was all kosher, nothing to do with me guv. It transpires that our plumber had connected our soil pipe to the rainwater drain, and we had contaminated this very valuable & clean stream (including killing the Koi carp, which happened to belong to a solicitor's wife, in a pond that was fed by the stream). EA were very good about it, and told us that the methy/soapy water that we were chucking in there, was absorbing loads of oxygen so killing off all the flora & fauna. Only took a couple of weeks to get back to normal though.
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There y'go as I said, a very naughty boy.

[Oilybloke]

'fternoon all.......My workshop is not connected to mains drains, so all waste from the site (which is two large houses, four workshops & twelve portacabins which are farmworkers accommodation) drains into three holding tanks and is pumped up to a soakaway. I'm putting about 1000 litres per week of methy/glycy wash water into this, and am wondering if I am doing the system any damage. Chatting with the landlord this morning, he told me that he has had some problems with blockages, and whilst he wasn't blaming me, he has never had this problem before. Any thoughts?

You're a very naughty boy, very naughty.

No I'm not, I'm the messiah.

[Jamesrl]

Oi, where's me 'tatoes, me an' the misses are starving waiting for'm.

Naughty boy twice now.