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Help Blocked Drain in the garden (soil pipe drain)

kindofagilr · 2009-06-22 19:34:15

We have two manhole covers in the garden and we looked in them tonight to see what they are like (we moved in 10 weeks ago) And one of them is blocked to hell, its disgusting, its nearly at the top and its just looks like loads of brown poop and toilet paper mixed together So basically its blocked I am not sure if its a…

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hewhoisnotintheknow Posts: 3,162 Forumite

24 June 2009 at 8:48AM

i used to suffer from blocked drains

i found that pulling the plug out on the bath and then flushing the loo a few seconds later actually helped due to higher water pressure than usual. Maybe ask your neighbours to empty their bath and flush at the same time!

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