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We're looking at buying a 1960's house which has 2 upstairs toilets & a downstairs toilet. I've had a good look around but there's no sign of any soil pipes so...

Where does the poo go?


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 8:09 am
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Cupboard under the stairs.


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 8:12 am
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Cupboard under the stairs.

There isn't one..


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 8:13 am
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it's under the poohill


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 8:16 am
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downstairs could be straight into a drain under the house like ours.  upstairs must be boxed in.

any manhole covers you can find / lift and get someone else to flush to at least know it works and isn' blocked


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 8:17 am
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Soil pipes may vent in the roof, go and check the loft


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 8:23 am
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Soil pipes are probably as above boxed in inside the house


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 8:40 am
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If you check the deeds there may be a clause in there comparable to the rules for Antarctic expeditions - any ones and twos have to be bagged / bottled and removed from the county.

A lot of those bags of shit you see hanging in trees nearby belong to people who don’t even own dogs. They just didn’t read the small print when they bought 1960s houses


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 8:52 am
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It gets made into Soilent Brown


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 8:54 am
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Either boxed in or routed down the fireplace.. (if it has one)


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 9:02 am
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Check the roof for a Jobbie Wheechar?.


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 9:07 am
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Be careful opening the hatch to the cellar


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 9:07 am
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Jobbie Wheechar

Oldskool. Like it. 🙂


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 9:09 am
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Jobbie Wheechar

Has to he said in Billy Connelly accent for full effect


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 10:08 am
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It drops into a big bucket under your house, where a team of minions then bag it up and hang it from a tree.


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 10:20 am
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i had a mate who's soil pipes went under the basement. under a previous ownership the route to the main sewer down the street hadn't been maintained for the past few decades, but they had been filling up...

shitmageddon when they did eventually fill up. it was a guest house too, with about a decade worth's of guests' waste in there!


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 11:31 am
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We moved into a house that had a septic tank, fed by a pipe running under the patio.  Took us a bit of time to work out that the funny smell was from the place under the patio where the builders had blocked the pipe with a sandbag. That was a nice job - and nobody volunteered to help 🙁


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 11:42 am
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Could be boxed in with a Durgo valve fitted so you dont need soil pipe poking out the roof.


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 12:24 pm
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It drops into a big bucket under your house, where a team of minions then bag it up and hang it from a tree.

Not pleasant, even for minions...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/04/im-born-to-do-this-condemned-by-caste-indias-sewer-cleaners-risk-death-daily


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 12:25 pm
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Make sure no one flushes while someone is brushing their teeth.

Just sayin'.


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 12:27 pm
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Where have all the flowers gone?


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 1:26 pm
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There's a rift in space in time, which leads to tomorrow. Unlucky!


 
Posted : 05/03/2018 4:01 pm

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