Watching what you ask?
I hired my neighbor to dig up our septic seepage pit. And, as you now know after reading many blog entries, you can't let a Panamanian alone to work because they will do the damnedest things unsupervised.
As a matter of fact, that is why I am now having the pit dug up.
We hire a backhoe operator to bury the construction brush. I showed him exactly where the septic pipe and pit where located and he, of course, went right to them and dug them up, destroying the sewer pipe.
This yahoo did everything but bury the brush. He tried to regrade the ENTIRE lot but we stopped him after he only got part of it done. (We left him for a couple of hours and that's what happened)
Why did he do this you ask? Were our instructions ambiguous? Was the request unreasonable? NOOOOOOO!!!! Because he wanted to. He thought it needs to be done. When we told him that his little regrading project destroyed the septic system, he said, "build a new on." Like that was obvious.
Only in Panama.
But all is not lost. He did reveal that the septic pit was not installed properly. The contractor screwed it up. He swore up and down that he did it right but I can now say that he didn't.
A seepage pit needs a cover over the rock. No cover and the dirt contaminates the rock so it won't work properly.
So, today I have a guy digging up the pit so we can repair it.
Isn't that the way it goes here.
On to another fix...
I was going to replace the leaking hot water heater but the installer stripped the screw heads mounting the unit, so I can't get them out. I don't have the right tools but I shouldn't have to have these tools! Grrrrr! I should pull out my trusty screwdriver and EASILY get the unit off the wall.
But nooooo!!!!!!
I tried to epoxy the leaking cast brass valve but it didn't work. I will try another epoxy in a day or two and see what happens.
If it doesn't work, I am going to make the installer get the unit off the wall.
I'm going to have fun watching this.
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