Our outside toilet has been used as a dumping ground - for rubbish I mean - rather than for its intended purpose for many years, but today in a spirit of 'Let's change that,' I emptied it and decided to clean the floor.
After mopping fruitlessly for a few minutes I decided to turn the hose on for a little half-hearted power washing.
And that was where the trouble started.
Some time later after I'd mopped for my country the floor looked no better. I'm hoping it will improve after it dries completely.
Anyway now I'm buying a pretty toilet lid to take people's minds off the the crumbling paintwork and the about-to-fall-off cistern. 'Good luck getting a plumber to do that any time soon,' Husband said. He is still bitter after his bathroom experience. Did I tell you the only plumber who would even think about coming to change the tap was going to charge £140 an hour?
Also I've worked out why I was struggling so much to get to grips with my Welsh as they seemed to be introducing stuff I hadn't learned. Turns out I'd skipped a lesson. Makes so much more sense now. And I've got it! As long as I practise daily.
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You have my heartiest support and sympathy in dealing with an outdoor bathroom. I had one in the garage of my last house consisting of sink and toilet. Floor pealing up, spiders, garage detritus. It was a mess to clean up when I was ready to sell the house. And, WOW! I thought our plumbers were expensive at $120/hr.
Sounds like plumbing is the lucrative career choice for smart young people!
(From Gary:) Wow! That is really interesting.... I have never seen a home with an outdoor toilet before. I guess it must be because in my region, the winters are too brutally cold to have such a thing be functional (we typically have at least a few days (or more) each winter where we have -20 degrees F (~ -29 degrees C)...... and a fair number of days/weeks/months not a whole lot warmer.
Some folks occasionally have an “outhouse” which is basically a shed with a toilet that leads to a whole in the ground (only in the deep country) or a “Porta-Potty” which is a self-contained outhouse that a company will collect periodically to clean and remove wastes that have accumulated in a bottom chamber. But, most folks here only have indoor plumbing.
It must be far more temperate in terms of cold in your area than I realized.
PipeTobacco
Yikes.... “while” in the above should have been “hole”.
PipeTobacco
Autocorrect is my nemesis today. I apologize. “Whole” should have been “hole”.
PipeTobacco
Now I know I should have become a plumber. Maybe it's not too late.
Love,
Janie
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