In my situation, I have to tell my girls NOT to fill our ORG with rocks. It’s a stinky debacle you really want to avoid. No house is ever immune to a plumbing blockage so to not have an ORG on your property means you could find yourself with a nasty mess to fix up and an insurance claim. To be honest, I wouldn’t live in a house without one.
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Houses built pre-1976 won’t have an ORG, but if it’s been renovated or you’re looking to renovate the house, the plumbing council won’t approve plans unless the plumbing has been brought to code and an ORG is installed. Downpipes and storm water should not be connected into the ORG as it can back up the sewer system which is not designed to carry storm water.
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It’s really important to inspect your ORG every so often to make sure that it’s not full of water (which means a blockage) and that it hasn’t been covered up. basin, shower or toilet) and at least 150mm above the surrounding ground to prevent storm water flowing into it. Usually the ORG is at least 100mm (although Queensland Urban Utilities state 75mm) lower than the lowest waste outlet in your home (eg. An ORG has a grate that pops out and allows the sewerage to overflow freely outside if you have a blockage in your plumbing. It’s simply a grated drain that acts like a relief valve, located outside (usually outside the laundry or kitchen) that prevents a blocked sewer emptying its contents into your home. I’ve written about ORG’s on the blog before but not a lot of people know about them and so I thought I’d share a bit more information on them.Īll properties in Australia require an Overflow Relief Gully (ORG). There were still some I wasn’t able to reach though. I got as many rocks as I could and was able to unblock the ORG. It stank and had sediment which was a little gross but not as gross as some jobs I’ve been on. There were a fair few of them and the brown water reached up to just below my shoulder.
I then reached down as far as I could go to scoop up the rocks from the ORG.
I don’t know how many times I’ve nearly ripped one of the nails off my fingers. I honestly didn’t care about the look, but I did care about the pain. I quickly changed out of my pj shirt, put on a tankini singlet and grabbed a latex glove to prevent breaking off one my fake nails.
The only way to unblock it was to get my hand and arm down there and pull out as many rocks as I could reach from the bottom of the trap. Maggie had taken off the grate and filled the drain up with surrounding rocks that we have on the side of our house.
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