Recommissioning.....................a house

**dullbird** · 1st October 2010, 08:56 PM

Look if it was Sunday I would be up for a dip

**Scouse** · 1st October 2010, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Looks nice, should be light with all of those North facing windows.

Yeah, the orientation is a bit strange too but that's one thing I can't change. Anyway, the back of the house has just as many windows & the garage protects the house from the westerly sun.

**Scouse** · 1st October 2010, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

its the pills I tell you,,

I thought we weren't going there again

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**Ace** · 1st October 2010, 08:59 PM

Originally Posted by Scouse

Yeah, the orientation is a bit strange too but that's one thing I can't change. Anyway, the back of the house has just as many windows & the garage protects the house from the westerly sun.

thats nothing a few strategically placed trees wont fix anyway.

Looks like a great score Scott.

**Scouse** · 1st October 2010, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by Ace

Looks like a great score Scott.

It's not ours yet. Once the contract for our house in Mittagong has been signed (just about exchanged now), then we'll proceed with this one.

**Ace** · 2nd October 2010, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by Scouse

It's not ours yet. Once the contract for our house in Mittagong has been signed (just about exchanged now), then we'll proceed with this one.

Ahh, righto, but you have put in an offer and its been accepted yes?

**Scouse** · 2nd October 2010, 11:21 AM

Yes, offers in & finally accepted a few months ago. A bit of a long story but the agent but up a non-existent buyer to bump our offer up.

**George130** · 2nd October 2010, 11:21 AM

When we moved into our place the local plumbing supplier old bloke told us not to worry to much about the tanks. His comment was that most people would never drink their tank water again if they looked in them. You can get the water tested quite easily.
A septic that has been idle for a year is likely to have shut down. You may find it takes a while to getting humming along happily.

Our place had been empty for a year and a half. Only problem had been the local teens who had got in to use the phone for free

. Easily fixed once the phone was disconnected.

As for fire. Just set the standing rule for the first summer of evac strait away. We had that rule for the first 3 years. If a fire was comming then our place is lost so get out and help save the neighbours. I also told the neighbours not to try to save our place unless people were there.

**Ace** · 2nd October 2010, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by Scouse

Yes, offers in & finally accepted a few months ago. A bit of a long story but the agent but up a non-existent buyer to bump our offer up.

gotta love dirty under handed tactics like that.

Will have to have a Scouses BBQ once you are moved in and settled

As for the Septic system you just flush some of that actizyme down the loo every now and then as it gets the bugs working again.

**Scouse** · 5th October 2010, 07:53 AM

Oh well, I don't have to worry about draining the concrete tank.
The neighbour has now hooked up to the tank & is using it himself - there's a nice big hose going down to his property.

So I've taken the 'first flush' cap off the feed pipe to the tank & a massive amount of dirty water came out. I've left it off so the neighbour will be wondering why his water supply has dried up.

As a bonus, I worked out how the water pump down at the concrete tank works. It has a power box down at the tank but I couldn't get the pump to operate.
I found a separate switch tucked away up under the eaves of the house to operate it remotely.

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