Cess Pits.
Yep, the bane of Thailand, you get to keep your own shite, Although there was a case last year when a Doctor chopped up his wife and put her in his cess pit, I will be the first to admit that some women nag too much but this is quite an extreme way to make use of your cess pit.
Anyway the best cess pits are the soakaway types, basically a big hole with concrete rings in, these do need a breather pipe for gases to escape, was it in Turkey a couple of years ago that a load of sewage pipes exploded?
Also you do need to flush down the toilet everynow and again some yeast to help break up the solids.
Here is a picture of the main secondry set of cess pits, Now this house was built on a high water table and the main house has seven bathrooms, there is no road drainage there so all water has to be fed into the cess pits, and this guy does not want city hall round every week to empty his cess pits or have problems with toilets backing up, so as you can see it is quite large.
Above is the before picture and below is the after picture.
Anyway in Pattaya you can just phone city hall on 038 429 374, and for a small 300baht fee they will suck the shite out of your cess pit.
Warning; beaware of the fly by nights that walk about housing estates with a lorry following them to suck out your cess pits, this will prove to be a very costly experiance as they are just rip off artists out to stitch up farangs, they will say something like 300baht and show you their nice measuring stick, then once all is finished it will be explained to you that it is 300 baht per inch or something like that and then demand 4,000baht, on this sort of thing you have no recourse at all and will have to pay the money.
Building A House In Thailand
Anyway the best cess pits are the soakaway types, basically a big hole with concrete rings in, these do need a breather pipe for gases to escape, was it in Turkey a couple of years ago that a load of sewage pipes exploded?
Also you do need to flush down the toilet everynow and again some yeast to help break up the solids.
Here is a picture of the main secondry set of cess pits, Now this house was built on a high water table and the main house has seven bathrooms, there is no road drainage there so all water has to be fed into the cess pits, and this guy does not want city hall round every week to empty his cess pits or have problems with toilets backing up, so as you can see it is quite large.
Above is the before picture and below is the after picture.
Anyway in Pattaya you can just phone city hall on 038 429 374, and for a small 300baht fee they will suck the shite out of your cess pit.
Warning; beaware of the fly by nights that walk about housing estates with a lorry following them to suck out your cess pits, this will prove to be a very costly experiance as they are just rip off artists out to stitch up farangs, they will say something like 300baht and show you their nice measuring stick, then once all is finished it will be explained to you that it is 300 baht per inch or something like that and then demand 4,000baht, on this sort of thing you have no recourse at all and will have to pay the money.
Building A House In Thailand
posted by The Pattaya Chef at 4:11 PM
1 Comments:
Come on doggy, I've been hanging out for ages for your next post, I'm getting tiered of re reading about cess pits every day.
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