Outside drain - blocked?

Alias_Omega

Drains, we use a bucket of water. We stand on a ladder/chair etc and pour it into the drain from a height. The force of the water in the past has been enough to push things through. Be it a toilet or outside drain.

Worst case, it will fill the hole and your no worse than the start.

Cyberman60

Alias_Omega wrote: »

Drains, we use a bucket of water. We stand on a ladder/chair etc and pour it into the drain from a height. The force of the water in the past has been enough to push things through. Be it a toilet or outside drain.

Worst case, it will fill the hole and your no worse than the start.

You'll get more prolonged and better pressure using a hose connected to the cold water tap fully open !! :rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

Hmmm....will actually give serious consideration to that thought...ie the J Cloth one.

Is still rather "at sixes and sevens" in getting my new routine worked out properly for the "basics" in life...courtesy of having not been in this house that long and still figuring it all out in the first place.....

'Tis amazing just how many tiny little "how to" decisions have been made over the years as regards "how to best live in the house" until you're thrown headlong into a new and very different one in a very different area and have to start from scratch and think all those minor little decisions through again from the start.

moneyistooshorttomention

Cyberman60 wrote: »

You'll get more prolonged and better pressure using a hose connected to the cold water tap fully open !! :rotfl:

That was part of what I did to resolve (hopefully ---fingers crossed) the matter....ie a big blast from my hosepipe on maximum pressure trying to flush like mad.

Is now wondering whether the reason why so many houses round here seem to have outside taps and a hosepipe outside (to the extent that workmen automatically ask where yours is) is for more reasons than I thought it was initially. Yep....duly installed an outside tap and hosepipe and told the latest workman that the answer to his "Have you got a hosepipe set up I can use?" query was that I had....

ukmike

If the drain is shared by your neighbours.the water authority is responsible for sorting it out at no cost to yourself.

moneyistooshorttomention

ukmike wrote: »

If the drain is shared by your neighbours.the water authority is responsible for sorting it out at no cost to yourself.

Does hope so if it comes to it that it isn't sorted yet.

As far as my reading to date goes, it boils down to "the problem is mine" until such time as my drains join up to someone else's drains (ie the neighbours). As far as my research goes, then it boils down "Once my drains joins up with a neighbours then it becomes communal sewer and the Water Boards responsility" - ie even in the circumstances I am in (ie of it being one of those darn unadopted roads).

That was my interpretation of this =

1. You're on your own until your drains join up with someone else's.

2. Once they join up with someone else's (even if its an unadopted road) then it becomes the local Water Board's responsibility.

I hope I've got that right...just in case.

phoebe1989seb

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Still haven't quite figured out whether it's okay to chuck kitchen paper towels down the loo or no? Reason being that I keep some in my bathroom for wiping down the water from near my shower and its handiest to chuck them down the loo afterwards (not that it would be any big deal to have to head into the kitchen and put them in the bin instead obviously - its more the thought of having to "train myself" out of the habit).

I've always been led to believe you shouldn't Money

We had a Dynorod issue a few years back when we lived in a Victorian terrace. It was caused by a neighbour's builders flushing all types of paper - kitchen roll and scraps of removed wallpaper of all things - down the loo and ever since then we have been careful what we flush away!

Ditto those wipes for *personal areas*, lol, which I believe are supposed to be flush-able, but nonetheless are best not flushed. To complicate matters we not only use quilted loo roll, but also one of our loos is on a Saniflo, meaning you have to be uber-careful.....

Gazpablo

If you have access to a Karcher pressure washer you can attach a Karcher drain cleaning kit (it fits all Karcher washers) - 7.5 metres costing around £41 and £60 for 15 metres. The end of the pipe brass attachment has a swirling jet nossle; the pipe rapidly travels up the drain pipe cutting through fat, tissue and detergent lumps. Works a treat and used once a year will rapidly pay for itself. Have a look at this YouTube video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VLIy5n1q1I

teddysmum

I'm almost certain that when Plenty kitchen roll first came out as Bounty, it had a warning not to flush down toilets, as it is designed not to disintegrate.