On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:59:00 GMT, Stuart Noble
wrote:

|!Lawrie wrote:
|! Hi,
|! Had a problem with a blocked drain recently which grateful advice from this
|! group sorted out.
|! But the last manhole cover before the road is in the middle of our front
|! garden and having lifted it to rod through, both the cover and the frame are
|! so rusted through that they need to be replaced.
|! Unfortunately the garden slopes down towards the house and the sewer
|! obviously the opposite way so that the sewer is a long way down way beyond
|! arm's reach. I am worried that when chipping away the old frame and cement
|! and re-cementing that nothing falls down into the sewer which is the last
|! thing I want; don't want any more blockages.
|! Has anyone any ideas for stopping stuff falling into the manhole; had
|! thought of a sheet of hardboard resting on screws into the side of the
|! manhole or on some sort of clips resting on the edge of the manhole.
|! Or is there any obvious way that I am missing,
|! Thanks, Lawrie
|!
|!
|!
|!Maybe pump up an old lilo bed? Something inflatable that will wedge
|!itself in the hole, and then a sheet of hardboard or something to stop
|!it puncturing.

IME Lilo beds deflate slowly, so after a while you would end up with a
*deflated* lilo
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