Okay to pour boiling water into drain cleaner in blocked gully?

MACKEM99

Got my drain rods from screwfix about a year ago for around £30.

plumb1_2

If your LL sends someone to unblock it, make your there to inform them you have put a chemical drain cleaner down.
I have actually been and unblocked a drain gully this morning for a mate, 15 minute job, drain rod and a 4” plunger on the end.
I now looking forward to 4 pints min of Guinness off  him tomorrow while watching the match in the pub, might even get him to get the crisps and nuts in too.

sourpuss2021

(Much ladling later)… Ah it looks like rather than exiting near the base, the water actually should flow through this pipe halfway down the gully, and it goes back under the house (not under the path).

I gave it a poke and fed the auger through quite far.   But then ran the hosepipe again, perhaps overconfidently. And the gully just filled up again!

FreeBear

Eldi_Dos said: If you do need to buy drain rods, 1/2 inch ferret type rods are good for this type of problem. Might seem expensive but will be cheaper than a callout, and you would have them for future use.

Your average 1/2" drain rod is not going to go round the bed in a typical pot gully. You'll need something a lot more flexible.

Whilst something like this will go round the bend - https://www.screwfix.com/p/drain-unblocker-7-6m/11325 - and should punch a hole through the blockage, it probably won't clear it completely.

Ganga

FreeBear said:

Eldi_Dos said: If you do need to buy drain rods, 1/2 inch ferret type rods are good for this type of problem. Might seem expensive but will be cheaper than a callout, and you would have them for future use.

Your average 1/2" drain rod is not going to go round the bed in a typical pot gully. You'll need something a lot more flexible.

Whilst something like this will go round the bend - https://www.screwfix.com/p/drain-unblocker-7-6m/11325 - and should punch a hole through the blockage, it probably won't clear it completely.

No but if it gets a hole through the blockage it might then go completely once used.

Eldi_Dos

MACKEM99 said:

Eldi_Dos said:

Once you have your goggles and marigolds on, get a soup ladle and attach to a pole and use this to bail out trap into a bucket, then clear out bottom of trap of any debris.Then push hose up drain till it hits blockage, turn on and push back and fore, hopefully blockage will clear.

If you do need to buy drain rods, 1/2 inch ferret type rods are good for this type of problem. Might seem expensive but will be cheaper than a callout, and you would have them for future use.

Don't make any soup for a while after.

Pea and ham ?

sourpuss2021

Here’s another action shot.  Should I be able to push this auger all the way through?  As presumably it goes through into some underground cavern.

There was definitely quite a bit of rice when I ladled out the gulley.   Enough for a nice minestrone soup .

Eldi_Dos

FreeBear said:

Eldi_Dos said: If you do need to buy drain rods, 1/2 inch ferret type rods are good for this type of problem. Might seem expensive but will be cheaper than a callout, and you would have them for future use.

Your average 1/2" drain rod is not going to go round the bed in a typical pot gully. You'll need something a lot more flexible.

Whilst something like this will go round the bend - https://www.screwfix.com/p/drain-unblocker-7-6m/11325 - and should punch a hole through the blockage, it probably won't clear it completely.

I was skeptical myself till I tried . Bailey 1/2 inch ferret type with the spring attachment at the front to help go round bends, great piece of kit.

sourpuss2021

Also is that pipe 10cm from the top of the gulley really the only way water has of exiting it? There won’t be something else near the bottom?

(I know I should just google it…)

MikeJXE

sourpuss2021 said:

Here’s another action shot.  Should I be able to push this auger all the way through?  As presumably it goes through into some underground cavern.

There was definitely quite a bit of rice when I ladled out the gulley.   Enough for a nice minestrone soup .

That is not a gully it's a silt trap

Foul water gully wouldn't have a hole that high with access to the drain and consequentially the sink or washing machine shouldn't be in there 

A gully that is designed to stop the smell has a U bend similar to toilet, the water covers the hole thus stopping the smell. Plus  and you cannot get rods around it