Gardian Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 When you come out to La Belle France to live, you think of balmy Summer evenings around the swimming pool, sipping a glass or two of chilled Rose wine. It isn't always like that though.Four days ago, we started to experience problems with one of the loos in the house. 'Backing up' would be the polite phrase I think. I initiated some primitive and amateur rodding, but to no avail and quite quickly the problem had spread to the other loos. Of course, all this happened over the weekend (it always does) and so I rang a local 'fosse septique emptier' 1st thing on Monday & left a message. He didn't ring back (they never do around here - he'll probably ring in a day or two), so this morning it was an emergency call to another outfit.He turned up at 16.30. You don't want to know the details - let's just say that it needed doing! We're now €350 the poorer, but at least we're back online.You really wanted to hear all about that, didn't you?Back to the chilled glass of Rose .................. well we will be in a few months time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardengirl Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 But did you smell the roses?! [Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frecossais Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Gardian, a bit like the experiences of some people here in the South East, when ground water flooded their drains etc. Glad your one was sorted fairly quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted February 19, 2014 Author Share Posted February 19, 2014 [quote user="gardengirl "]But did you smell the roses?! [Www][/quote]Actually GG, it was a lot less nasty than I expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardian Posted February 19, 2014 Author Share Posted February 19, 2014 [quote user="Frecossais"]Gardian, a bit like the experiences of some people here in the South East, when ground water flooded their drains etc. Glad your one was sorted fairly quickly.[/quote]Frecossais .............I think that our little bit of inconvenience was a flea bite compared to what flooded & nearly flooded people have been through both in the UK & France.Our problem was also self-inflicted in the sense that I had been putting off getting it emptied for too long. That was part of the reason for posting - as with most things, never leave it until its nearly too late! Just as well that it didn't happen in August when we often have visitors and you can never get anybody to come and fix anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lehaut Posted February 20, 2014 Share Posted February 20, 2014 Our first encounter with this problem was solved by our local farmer.Kind as he was, he put the machine on blow instead of suck. I was the one holding the hose into the full and vertically advancing fosse!Talk about getting your own back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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