Greasy cockup - don't read this before eating.

[ToughButterCup]

Cockup in haste (normal for me), and repent at leisure. Especially if you have a green-fingered wife. Hmmmm, no I haven't been on the whacky baccy.

 

But at least I got a new power tool out of it.  So that's all good.

 

"Sweetheart, where do you want the kitchen sink in the new house? "

"How do I know until I see the house?"

 

Answering questions with a question is to live in a house with lecturers in it. Its bloody annoying when your spouse brings work back home innit. 

 

Wouldn't have been too bad if I'd kept on at her to answer the question, but, but , but , but. I wasn't up to it then (10 years ago).  

 

Result? I cocked up the kitchen waste. It's a proper bodge. A full-on bodge. So much of a bodge that I'm embarrassed to photograph it and post here. 

 

On its own that cockup wasn't too bad, but it is way too bad if your green-fingered Mrs. heaps the garden tight up against the bodge. And it's far and away too bad - borderline stoopidity- if you ignore it: for years. 

 

Cue gentle persistent stink.

 

3 weeks ago SWMBO  broke her foot: I'm flying around like the kind of fly that lands on and loves smelly places. Add a bit of insult to injury because the puppy has had  the shiteverywheres for a week. Vet unconcerned.

 

And still it stinks.

 

And I'm up three times a night for the last fortnight mopping poop. I'm concerned and annoyed at vets who aren't.

 

And still it stinks.

 

The Book of Job ( Jobby?) doesn't treat the matter well enough.

 

And still it stinks.

 

I'd forgotten how many swearwords I know. The garden had made its way into the yard drain (told you it's a bodge) . Stopped the flow. Which encouraged the fats to consolidate the mess. But still the drain works. Slowly, secretly (because she'd hidden the drain under a fekkin' jungle) 

 

What's that about then? 

 

My working theory is that (because I remember doing it) I had put so much pipe bedding round the foul drain that the bedding is acting as a secondary drain. *kinell! 

 

So I'm taking @Jeremy Harris advice and building myself a fat-trap (see the thread in this section about his adventures)

 

I want to build it from prefabricated concrete sections stacked on top of each other.

 

I need advice on how to make the fat baffle fit tightly - and permanently - to the sides of the concrete sections.

 

Anyone made their own grease trap ? Care to share the design? Don't want to cock this up as well.

[Onoff]

22 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

fat-trap

 

& you've been caught! 

[marshian]

5 hours ago, Onoff said:

 

& you've been caught! 

 

Nice Boomtown Rat Reference

[SteamyTea]

7 hours ago, Onoff said:

 

& you've been caught! 

 

1 hour ago, marshian said:

 

Nice Boomtown Rat Reference 

Was an Alan Davis program about what would happen if all the rats vanished. Our lives would be worse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rf05

 

Now this is how I deal with fat and waste.

 

First we collect the food.

 

Any fat, liquid or solid is kept here.

 

Locked away for insurance purposes.

 

 

This machine does a bad job of getting the crud off.

 

 

With all the waste water going down this hole to the grease trap.

 

 

It has been a slow day today so I have been hiding from workmates.  They think I am writing a report about the drains.

[saveasteading]

7 hours ago, ToughButterCup said:

Anyone made their own grease trap

No, but silt trap.

For grease build a wall across the middle of the manhole thing you are building, to above the water line. Allow a gap near half height so gunk goes below and grease and floaters above.

The gap can be a perpend missed or a pipe.

 

OR on the outlet fit a T with one end above the water and the other to half way down.

 

OR buy a grease trap.