My father actually hired him to dig in our back yard to install a septic tank. When the hole was only about three feet deep, it filled with water. Therefore, we had to use an outhouse at the very back of our property for our toilet facilities -- this was okay though as our lot was fairly large. Quite a few houses had septic tanks and flush toilets inside, but we were unlucky. There were no sewer lines from the city at that time. We did have electricity and we had a butane tank installed on the property for our supply of gas for the stove and heaters. The house was not a shack as some might suppose; it was well built.