Plumbing issues

Kinja'd!!! "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
04/14/2016 at 16:26 • Filed to: Plumbing

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You find me in Pompei, near Naples.

You also find me having learnt more than I ever wished to about Italian domestic plumbing.

If you want to add bathroom facilities to your existing building and you don’t want to go the trouble and expense of installing proper pipework, you can install what’s called a macerating toilet. Anything put therein is chopped up and pumped into the existing waste pipes at some pressure. So far so good.

If however you are new to these and unplug a seemingly unused electrical cable because you want to plug something else in and then wish to use the facilities without replacing said cable things that are not at all nice happen. You find yourself with a major and intractable backing up problem on your hands and if you’re unlucky you could find it on the floor as well. Fortunately replacing the plug restores normal service.

You’ve been warned.

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DISCUSSION (3)


Kinja'd!!! Leon711 > Cé hé sin
04/14/2016 at 16:33

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You are in Italy, talking about plumbers and you didn’t choose Mario or Luigi?

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Kinja'd!!! Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever > Cé hé sin
04/14/2016 at 16:42

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/wor…

Immediately thought of this when I saw this post. Pretty interesting read, too.


Kinja'd!!! TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Cé hé sin
04/14/2016 at 18:26

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When I was in Sorrento on my honeymoon my wife and I tried to take the train to visit Pompeii, couldn’t due to a god damn train strike... Sigh, next time though.