SHE has had a fairly grim day.. apart from the treat of a dear friend coming to take HER for a coffee..
Went to work and noticed immediately a 'strange' smell. It got worse, then, horror of horrors, water started to bubble up through the wooden floor.
HQ had already been called and the seriousness of the situation explained in words of one syllable as it was coming from the main drainage system, yes, folks, the main drainage system, YOU know what I mean.
An emergency team of plumbers came, everything was moved to enable them to take off the lid of a manhole, ugh gulp, as water flowed onto the back room floor.
They tried to get it to go down, then another shop manager appeared to say they had the same problem, one of the plumbers went away to find the problem was not OUR end but further down the street.
But water and 'everything' else was backing up and coming out of our manhole because it had nowhere else to go.
The blockage was caused by, guess what?
They measured 'it' with their drain camera, it was a three metre solid block of kitchen waste in the form of fat and oil mixed in with non-disposable wipes.
Fat and oil mixed with water creates a solid masse.
The next time YOU have a frying pan with fat or oil, please don't, whatever YOU do, tip it down the sink and flush it away. Allow it to cool, get paper towel or newspaper, wipe the fat off the pan with the paper, then throw the paper into the rubbish bin.
For the remaining fat, sprinkle some washing soda into the pan and allow it to break down the grease, otherwise, Dear Readers, YOU are heading for trouble.. big trouble..
The shop will now be closed for several days whilst the damaged wooden floor is treated, the place cleaned and disinfected and a lot of damaged stock disposed of.
All because of other people who don't think of what they are doing when they put 'things' down lavatories or fat and oil down kitchen sinks.
And be aware that Baby or Facial wipes are not made out of tissue paper, they don't break or rot down.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 4th, 2014.
Went to work and noticed immediately a 'strange' smell. It got worse, then, horror of horrors, water started to bubble up through the wooden floor.
HQ had already been called and the seriousness of the situation explained in words of one syllable as it was coming from the main drainage system, yes, folks, the main drainage system, YOU know what I mean.
An emergency team of plumbers came, everything was moved to enable them to take off the lid of a manhole, ugh gulp, as water flowed onto the back room floor.
They tried to get it to go down, then another shop manager appeared to say they had the same problem, one of the plumbers went away to find the problem was not OUR end but further down the street.
But water and 'everything' else was backing up and coming out of our manhole because it had nowhere else to go.
The blockage was caused by, guess what?
They measured 'it' with their drain camera, it was a three metre solid block of kitchen waste in the form of fat and oil mixed in with non-disposable wipes.
Fat and oil mixed with water creates a solid masse.
The next time YOU have a frying pan with fat or oil, please don't, whatever YOU do, tip it down the sink and flush it away. Allow it to cool, get paper towel or newspaper, wipe the fat off the pan with the paper, then throw the paper into the rubbish bin.
For the remaining fat, sprinkle some washing soda into the pan and allow it to break down the grease, otherwise, Dear Readers, YOU are heading for trouble.. big trouble..
The shop will now be closed for several days whilst the damaged wooden floor is treated, the place cleaned and disinfected and a lot of damaged stock disposed of.
All because of other people who don't think of what they are doing when they put 'things' down lavatories or fat and oil down kitchen sinks.
And be aware that Baby or Facial wipes are not made out of tissue paper, they don't break or rot down.
GeeGee Parrot.
March 4th, 2014.
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