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Was just yakking to the neighbour over the fence. He's just moved into his house after just fixing it up on weekends for ages - its one of those houses that needs vast and immense amounts of work. He said his drains were all blocked up, he was using a portaloo inside because his toilet wasn't...

Being on rainwater only and saving water in buckets to flush the loo with (it didn't rain for ages - you just do it) we were using about the same on showers as the toilet. It adds up. Flushing with a bucket is bad though, the water doesn't go around the pan the same way and the toilet gets...

I had the septic tank cleaners out to drain and clean an underground water tank that was low and had sludge in the bottom - cost me about $90 I think, might have been a bit over $100. But I had the advantage that they pumped the water out, their tank on the truck got full, and they dumped it...

My place came with a HIA (improvement order) for substandard housing. One of the (many) issues was the toilet was backing up and the septic tank was a health hazard or something equally scarey sounding. The current order has no such scariness on it. Dunno exactly what they did between that...

Any big trees (hell, just trees in general) near the line from the house to the septic tank?