To be fuming at the council workers for taking another break when my house stinks of shit?

[FreeBirdsFlying]

Theres a problem with the drains and stuff where I live and the council workers have been outside since 10:45am fixing them. They are on their third break since then.
Theres a bunch of houses (mine included) which have a smell of sewerage coming from the plugholes and toilets for nearly two weeks and the council are only out today after a lot of calls.

More of a rant than AIBU.

I suppose it depends how long the breaks are - three 5 min breaks (over 2.5hrs) from stinky drain clearing doesn't sound too bad, but three 30min breaks sounds a bit of a cheek.

The first two breaks were about twenty minutes,and they've been on this one for fifteen minutes so far. I'm ironing upstairs so I have a good view of them.

They may have to stop every so often to give it (gas, crap etc) time to disperse. Also, as said before, it is a filthy job so regular time out is understandable.

I can understand your frustration but I'm sure it stinks worse in the drain then your house! I'd need a break fairly often. But its easy for me to say that as I'm not having to deal with the smell.

Can you go for a wander and hopefully come back to a non-sewage smelling house? hope it gets fixed

Fuming? Really?

Odd that it's the council undertaking the work?

The water company is responsible for drains and sewers.

are they not allowed a lunch hour?

Selfish bastards eh?

True enough the smell must be awful there cause its fairly bad here.
Blackberry my house,clothes,furniture all reek. Dh has to have his suits dry cleaned again,all the cushions,curtains,blinds will have to be washed.

i should imagine they are letting the Mr Muscle do it's work.
they wouldnt be having a break just for the hell of it.

its probably down to Elf and safety

Just remember, its your shit they are dealing with .

Oh for fuck sake. Really? They are down there knee deep in shit and you want them to stay there for hours at a time!

Pendeen its Ireland.

They have just driven off leaving an open drain.

Free you obviously could do a better job why not offer to help?

Do you think your shit don't stink?

that'll learn you op

we used to live near a sewer, lovely, and on occasions the smell would waft over. it is like nothing else. it permeates

I think pps are probably right. The smell down in those drains must be awful and wading in mess. Hope it gets sorted soon.

Very frustrating but a horrible job for them

Why don't you do your weekly shop while they clean the drains? Or phone a friend and go to theirs for a cuppa.

You are nbu for being frustrated but they probably aren't either as I wouldn't do a job like for any money in the world unless it was tea breaks for 99.9% of the time

FreeBirdsFlying

Oh, that explains it then!

Maybe they drove off to the next drain cover to see if your poo has made it further downstream yet?

They're back again. Kids are due in from school so will probably go out then. I
know its a yucky thing to have to do but its horrible living like this.

Salty

poo sticks?

Ewww poo sticks

Ewww

My house still smells like poo,the council should be back sometime next week to sort it according to my neighbour.