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

"Lawrie" wrote in message
...
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



Lay loops of rope down to bottom of pit. Fold a tarpaulin to suitable
size to go down with a bit coming up the sides. Get on with chipping
away and don't get too panicky about debris falling down but try to
avoid it. When finished use the ropes to pull up the tarpaulin with
whatever did go down.

AWEM

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.

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.

Or one of those containers that you get sand delivered in with ropes
attached to the handles to haul it back up...I've no idea how much
room is down there tho'

Don't know if it would do but most fireplace shops sell square and oblong
inflatable balloons for temporarily blocking flues , about a foot down would
allow you to clean the dbris before you remove it?

--
Pete Cross

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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Dave Fawthrop wrote:
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

Only when they've been abused. Those were the days!

On 3 Apr, 11:15, "Lawrie" wrote:
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


An inverted umbrella?

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Stuart Noble wrote:

Dave Fawthrop wrote:

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

Only when they've been abused. Those were the days!

Yes, I remember that! Ours ended up with a 6" split! [Our son was born 9
months later. g]

However, under normal circumstances, they should be good for 8 hours kip.
That's long enough to do a manhole, *surely*?
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In article ,
"Lawrie" writes:
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,

I cut a piece of plywood to sit on the top edge of the flaunching,
making it quite a close fit with the wall sides. It was also useful
to stand on this to work on the manhole (I was also replacing the
top two courses of bricks). At the end, I scooped up the larger
pieces of mortar, and used a vacuum cleaner to suck up all the
finer stuff, before removing the sheet of ply. (If any neighbours
were watching me apparently cleaning out the sewer with a vacuum
cleaner, they probably thought I was nuts;-)

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