Fosse Septique Pt 3

The work has finally started on renovating our little stone cottage with the installation of the fosse septique. All was going well so it seemed until I got a phone call from our friends in France saying there was a pettit problem and would I like to speak to Harry our Contractor that had just installed the tank. Apparently for some reason he had installed it too high in the ground making it impossible to connect drainage into it.

However, he had a solution and said I would need to install a pump to push the waste uphill. I thanked him for his suggestion and politely told him to take it out and put it back into the ground so that I could have a nice gravity connection. If that wasn't enough we also were told that Harry had spent the latter part of one afternoon digging out the main drainage run and then partly filling it back so he could get his van off the site so he could go home that night. And to top the lot Harry has spent the last week talking to the local inspectors asking them to come and inspect the filter bed that he had dug, then finally realising that he hadn't applied for the permit to carry out the work.So work is held up probably until next week. So look for my update next week.