What if it Snows?

Heat? Oh you mean the occaisional snow flurries we keep getting every two days? Well today and tomorrow we may see 50+F. But Monday is more slush.

yes and no. It will stink if we dont treat it. Yet we do treat it with Kampa Kem from Walmart. AKA septic blue for camper sanitation. Green bottle if it matters. It digests the solids into a slurry. Otherwise the downstairs shower is the lowest drain. So when we wash dishes or clothing we use a flush floor sump pump and pump it to the basement where it is pumped out of the house with the basement sump. Yet the brown stuff is going in buckets. Then when the ground is no longer frozen I will empty the buckets into the tank. Not a fun way to live, yet I have done it before, so it isnt that hard for me to do it again. Yet having a functioning septic is much more desirable.

Another headache that has reared its ugly head. The basement sump is getting overwhelmed with what it is pumping. Our basement is flooding even tho the sump is running 24/7 trying tto keep up with the rain as well. Such a interesting spring this year.

The adventurous balck cat went into the basement. Apparently he doesnt go to the foot of the stairs. Instead he goes down to the landing and jumps down the upper steps with out risers. Amy heard him jump into the 50 degree water and a mad scrambling of feet as he ran around the corner to get out of the water. Poor JB doesnt want to go check out the basement anymore. LOL

 

Your welcome to come and tidy it if you feel like it. All I see on the floor is a scrap piece of copper, some house screen material that JB has knocked on the floor frrom one of his adventures and a blanket box that is acting as storage for miscellaneous boxes and G scale trains.

There is also some clothes hanging on the downstairs clothes line

 

Why can't you boil a bunch of water and pour it down the drain?
Sorry, don't know anything about septic tanks, but it sounds like a good idea

 

Also a good question. it is the reason for the new tank type water heater on the porch waiting to go downstairs when the basement isnt flooded. The iceplug in the line might be as much as 10 feet long. (where the brown trapezoid is) I told the wife a quick and dirty way of removing a drain plug in the house and flushing hot water down the pipe. Tho any effluent in the pipe will drain into the home and we would need a kiddy pool of about 50 gallons to capture the effluent and hot water to thaw the plug. With out even considering it she declared "not in my house are you going to do that, we will wait for it to thaw!".

Well the wife was determined the sump pump wasnt working anymore. She was looking at where ir goes out on the back lawn some 40 feet away and saying she couldnt see any water flowing.. Because of that the sump must havew stopped. No I couldnt get her to look at the end of the hose in the lawn. So I hade to wade in three inches of water to the pump. Removed the expansion joint and with my (and hers) feet out of the water I turned the pump back on. We experienced a geyser of water come out the pipe. I did pulll the pump from the hole it was in and checked the bottom of the pump for blockage (none there). Set the pump back in and reconnected the pump. Then I told her to go look at the end of the pipe with her actually standing near the end of the pipe. To the lower right of the home is where the gray water is allowed by the town to be pumped onto the lawn. The trees love the free water from the basement. Yes I know, we need to paint the house. When your financially challenged, you do what you can afford. Right now and for the past 15 years, more Cabot solid stain has been on the back burner (so to speak)

 

Might put some cheap heat trace on the line this summer — I did it on our cabin and it works pretty good — pretty in expensive to run.

 

Wade in 3 inches of water?
Are you a Smurf?

 

Next fall spread out some straw over the field