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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 234184" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I thought we had some horrible dunny hazards in Australia (back in the early 70s there was a hit record on the charts which began, "Oh, there was a redback on the toilet seat when I was there last night..." - redback is our breed of black widow spider, a common finding in the classic outside dunny in many Aussie backyards in the country) - but the thought of freezing your cheeks to the seat just appals me.</p><p></p><p>Down the road where it's flat near the water table, it often floods when we get a long session of wet weather. A woman who lived down there told me with horror of when her toilet's septic tank backed up in the flood, it began to overflow back into the bathroom. And it wasn't rainwater, either! Her husband fixed it by installing a pump and a large tank; in wet weather when it flooded, he pumped the floodwater into the sump. That way he got to it before the septic began to flood. And when it was dry, he then pumped backwards, emptied the sump to his drains installed underneath the garden. They had the BEST garden...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 234184, member: 1991"] I thought we had some horrible dunny hazards in Australia (back in the early 70s there was a hit record on the charts which began, "Oh, there was a redback on the toilet seat when I was there last night..." - redback is our breed of black widow spider, a common finding in the classic outside dunny in many Aussie backyards in the country) - but the thought of freezing your cheeks to the seat just appals me. Down the road where it's flat near the water table, it often floods when we get a long session of wet weather. A woman who lived down there told me with horror of when her toilet's septic tank backed up in the flood, it began to overflow back into the bathroom. And it wasn't rainwater, either! Her husband fixed it by installing a pump and a large tank; in wet weather when it flooded, he pumped the floodwater into the sump. That way he got to it before the septic began to flood. And when it was dry, he then pumped backwards, emptied the sump to his drains installed underneath the garden. They had the BEST garden... Marg [/QUOTE]
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