We’ve been having problems with the plumbing in our main bathroom. The water just won’t drain when we flush the toilet. It takes about an hour for it to go down. Needless to say, we haven’t used that toilet for quite some time. Finally, we were able to get hold of the plumber. He took a look, suggested all the remedies that Sean had already tried, and then decided we needed to take a peek.
So, he removed “The Throne” from it’s hallowed perch, and discovered that we had a jungle in our pipes! Sean’s worked really hard to create a little jungle down the side of the house. Well the jungle wasn’t content to stay there, so it started growing up the toilet pipe. Lots of fertilizer.
The Plumber dug up the pipes and busted them open, and Sean and the Plumber spent about an hour trying to get the roots and weeds out of the pipes. Not happening. Poor Construction and Strong Roots made salvage impossible. So, now we have two choices. Do a major bathroom renovation, busting tiles and cement to replace the pipes, then having the joy of finding new tiles that match the 15 year old colour scheme (the Farang Way). Or we could just cover over the old hole, put the toilet on a pedestal, have the pipes run through the shower stall to the outside and down into the septic (the Thai Way). We’re going with the Thai Way. We don’t have the money or the time to rip this house apart to fix the pipes. So we’ll just go around it.
While Sean and the Plumber were working on getting the roots out of the pipes, Samantha was standing by, very concerned for her Daddy, down in the dirt, grunting and sweating. What worried her the most?? The Poop! “Daddy! Be careful. It’s poopy and yucky down there. Look out! Don’t get any on you!!”
And then, when we were discussing the method of renovation, Samantha stood there like a good forewoman, pointing and giving instructions in Thai to P’Wan and the Plumber on how to do the job.
Now Sean has to cut back the jungle he created, because we don’t want it growing back and destroying our Plumber’s creative plumbing solution.
Later Samantha said to her daddy, “Daddy, can you read to me the story about the poop and pee when I was there and how you fixed it?”
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