STP install

[stephanh]

Evening all - digging a hole to drop in a new Matrix STP when the sound of breaking pipe calls out. There should be any drainage pipe in that location, but that is indeed what it was.

Dropping into said hole to inspect (and long story short) I found the out flow pipe for the old septic tank! This pipe was made up of old land drain pipe, each section about 450mm long, and wrapped in sheet plastic, presumably for leakage. Talk about make it up as you go along.

Problem solved for now, but has anyone else come across similar?

[ProDave]

It is often a complete unknown what you will find when you dig a hole, until you start digging.  We came across a multicore probably telecoms cable, but nobody's phone stopped working so it remains a mystery what it was.

 

Was your pipe "live" i.e. did your hole start to fill up with probably smelly water?

[stephanh]

it certainly appeared to live, an amount of water leaked into excavation, not too bad but bad enough to shut down washing machine etc.

I resolved that small problem with a length of Osma but lost daylight as I was finishing. Have now to go out and see if that piece of pipe has worked or if I have a hole full of smelly stuff.