In our pursuit of a flushing toilet, we have to do some temporary plumbing. We will disconnect the old toilet, replace all the old soil pipe and plumb in a new throne with a slightly less offensive colour scheme.

To tackle that, we first had to break into the combiner box – a brick and concrete monstrosity where all the waste pipes combine into one big soil pipe and flow out to the septic tank. Let’s see what’s inside…

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