Late last year I sacked the twits/ Company looking after my Biocycle Septic system. Looked the thing up, had to fix it after the maintence guy screwed it and thought I can do a better job with this myself. I check it every week and up until I spent a couple of weeks away earlier in the month, thing was fine.
Mrs and Daughter come in tonight getting stuck into me because the thing stinks and is thick in the air on the back verandah. I couldn't smell anything out there today but my sense of smell is going the same way as my hearing and sight, downwards. Took still complaining Mrs out, lifted the lid and did get a whiff although not as bad as the gasping flee for life she made back indoors.
Had a look, everything is working but it seems the wrong colour in the water. Come in and tell mrs it must be that stuff she cleaned the shower with on the weekend that had the bathrooms smelling like Morgues after a busy day which I already spoke to her about. Also pointed out something else I had seen with anti bacterial on it which she said only ever used once. Wonder how the bottle got half empty? That lead to a lively " Discussion" with the usual denials and I was at fault again and we should get the guy back in because it didn't smell when they looked after it. Didn't effing work after they had been here either on more than one occasion but anyway.
So I get on the WWW and look up the problem. Hmm, 5 min and I knew it. Effing cleaning agents. The tell tale was there is no scum/ foam on the top of the primary chamber which I noticed but didn't put my finger on. Saw it wasn't right but didn't tweak why. Anyway, site has a list of product not to use. Printed it off, went and informed the Females it WAS as I said, using cleaning agents I had warned them not to use 20 times already.
Nope, they don't use anything they shouldn't. they are careful and only used a bit of the shower cleaner on the weekend and I was exaggerating.
I go to laundry Cupboard. Found half the products on the list. Pointed them out, nope don't use them. Then why is this 2L Bottle empty and there are another 2 full ones behind it ready and waiting? What else do you buy multiples of and stack in the cupboard we never use?
Oh, well we have to get the clothes clean somehow! Ah, so now the story changes. What a surprise!
Went under kitchen sink, Jackpot again. Oh, that that only gets sprayed on a cloth and wiped over. Yeah, and what do you do with the cloth when it's dirty? Rinse it off in the sink??
Where the fluck you think that ends up? Heres a hint, it's 3m directly that way and under the ground.
By this time the story has gone from complete denial to defense. But there was something lse on the list I remembered seeing and commenting on weeks ago. Go into the bathroom and find the toilet cleaners. One a liquid you squirt around and the other those things that make the water blue. Both clearly marked " Not safe for use in septic and biological systems."
Well Fk me!
They really hate it when I'm right. Said at the start, it's the cleaners you are using but No, they don't use anything they shouldn't and are careful with what they use. It's something I have done to the Biocycle because I don't know what I am doing.... Pigs arse it is!
Then the stuff I find is like they took the do not use list as a shopping list and got as much as they could on it.
Wrote down what Mrs needs to get NOW at the supermarket which is the pelleted bacteria to try and get the bugs happening again.
Of course I made the very subtle point that it wasn't what I was or wasn't doing at all and it would have happened the same if there bogwater bloke was still coming. All they do is drop Chlorine tables in the thing and I made sure there are plenty there so......
Is it just me or do other blokes get this all the time as well? You tell them something, it gets blatantly denied, you are made out to be wrong/ shitty/ biased/ a mongeral/ unreasonable and then the very thing you said all along, turns out to be proven beyond doubt... often when someone else tells them the same thing and it's like a life changing revelation. But they are then shitty at you for being right at which point you are just being a smart arse!
So now the Mrs wants to know how long before the thing is right again as she does not want the family over for Xmas sitting there smelling sewerage.
I said well that depends how much of the stuff you NEVER use gets put down there.
If there is none at all, Might come back in time for Xmas.
In actual fact with the bacteria should start coming good in a few days but no way in hell I'm telling them that!
I might mix up a hot brew of the bacteria with the horse manure I got the weekend which contains the same bacteria I want. Keep that at 30oC and it should be Bio rocket fuel for septics. Was going to have another go at a methane Digester so can kick start that too.
Might try and keep some Bog soup going all the time and throw it in every week because I know damn well soon as it's right again they will be putting all the stuff down they are not suppose to. I could take it out the cupboard but I know they will just get more.
I make sure to wash my greasy hands outside so the mineral oils and filth along with the High caustic soap I make don't go in the system but seems I'm the only one that keeps things in mind.
Damned if they think you are wrong, twice as damned if you prove yourself right.