For the record: ick!
Dec. 12th, 2009 06:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slowfoxStanding in a gradually rising puddle whilst having this morning's shower convinced me that the drain needed clearing out in the yard. This is not a fun job, and despite my best efforts at trying to separate grungy water from fox, there was some cross-contamination, which I was less than thrilled about.
The problem is that the drain itself has a plastic 6"x6" cover that sits in a recessed square in the concrete... unless a curious hound sees it. For some reason, Mali takes an active dislike to the plastic inserts being in the drainage channels, so he flips them up with his paw, and then carries them across the yard to put them down. He doesn't chew them(!), he just feels that the yard is more aesthetically pleasing sans drainage grates.
What then happens is that rubbish and the like that blows into the yard flutters down the opened gulleys, resulting in me pulling out plastic bags and chocolate bar wrappers that have been blocking the channel.
Flow is somewhat improved, but I'm going to have to come up with a more long term solution - ideally, I'd like to find some metal grids, in the hope that they'd be sufficiently heavy to resist canine interference. Otherwise, I might try and screw down some wire mesh across the top, to make them fully tamper-proof.
The problem is that the drain itself has a plastic 6"x6" cover that sits in a recessed square in the concrete... unless a curious hound sees it. For some reason, Mali takes an active dislike to the plastic inserts being in the drainage channels, so he flips them up with his paw, and then carries them across the yard to put them down. He doesn't chew them(!), he just feels that the yard is more aesthetically pleasing sans drainage grates.
What then happens is that rubbish and the like that blows into the yard flutters down the opened gulleys, resulting in me pulling out plastic bags and chocolate bar wrappers that have been blocking the channel.
Flow is somewhat improved, but I'm going to have to come up with a more long term solution - ideally, I'd like to find some metal grids, in the hope that they'd be sufficiently heavy to resist canine interference. Otherwise, I might try and screw down some wire mesh across the top, to make them fully tamper-proof.
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Date: 2009-12-12 06:49 pm (UTC)Here I was, pleasantly contemplating your morning ablutions in the bathroom shower, when suddenly the drains are backed up all the way from the yard?
A second read-through cleared up my foggy morning lack-of-brain. Now I'm ready to offer proper condolences on the ickysticky task, and hopes that you find a better solution for the conundrum of Mali's offended aesthetic senses.
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Date: 2009-12-13 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-12 10:27 pm (UTC)What with me having leaky ceilings yesterday and you having blocked drains today - seems Hull isn't much good when it comes to water-related problems :-/
And if you need equipment for deeper unblocking of said drainage systems, I reckon we have the necessary equipment at Grimmauld Place already.
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Date: 2009-12-13 03:56 pm (UTC)I think I've managed to, if not completely cure, at least render the throughput sufficiently voluminous to no longer pose impediment to showering. I may, however, take you up on that offer in the spring, when the weather's a bit nicer...
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Date: 2009-12-13 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-14 08:47 am (UTC)