Well Jeri, maybe if you are now a qualified plumber, you would like to help me with my project that I put off last year and still may put off this year...

Pip had new cenral heating installed when she bought the house but I really do not understand the logic of the (now retired) plumber who did it. It's a fully pumped system but only has a motorised valve on the C/H side. There is no stat on the H/W cylinder... The problem we get is when it's cold. You can turn the boiler up high but rather than have H/W shut off and have all the energy going to the radiators when the H/W reaches temperature, we end up with dangerously hot water from the taps.

I reckon the "S Plan" listed on this page would work well but I'm not sure I want to go grovelling in the roof space to do it...

Back to septic tanks, we have one here. It seems to have something against us. I can prety well guarantee that if family are coming to visit that things will start to back up and it need emptying either the day before or during the visit. Mind you, the kids don't help either - last time young Robert was here, he must have tried to flush 1/2 a roll of bog paper down in one go and we ended up with a bit of a flood. I Got my own back on him though - told him and his dad that he'd done a 12" long turd and that was the cause.