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6th Jul 2017, 8:11 pm | #21 | |
Dekatron
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Wiltshire, UK.
Posts: 14,010
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Re: Unidentified wall thingy!
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Not knowing what this was for, my friend followed the "switch it off and see what stops happening" approach. He switched it off, and nothing seemed to stop happening - until a fortnight later when the cellar was found to be a foot-deep in sewage. The switch was for the pump that lifted the output of the septic-tank to its drainage-bed. Switched off, the tank backed-up and fed back through the drain intended for the laundry facilities in the now-flooded cellar. Ewww! |
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