Our current tenants over at 'Les Balcons' had a blockage in the soil pipe recently which Charlie, the local plumbers freed up only to be called out again on Monday. Probing down the rodding point seemed to reveal that there was plant material inside the pipe. Charlie said that it could be the roots of a nearby tree having broken into it! A friend and I dug down to where we thought the problem lay...
and find out Charlie was right - and how! Would not have believed it had I not seen it with my own eyes!
The thing is, we had paid SAUR 120 euros back in October to have the drains checked when we were considering selling the house and they passed! Quite frankly not sure how anything 'passed' this lot!
We had the exact same problem at Braye but with the overflow to the old septic tank but that was just as we had sold the place!! Another amazing story: When I was engineer at one hospital the main drain was 50 feet deep to the invert and we still used to get root problems!!!
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