opps! ghost flooded the bathroom

Canucklehead

Hi

Where does the overflow from the toilet go?
Perhaps a manifold into the back of the bath overflow.

Corgi Guy.

annie123

Canucklehead wrote: »

Hi

Where does the overflow from the toilet go?
Perhaps a manifold into the back of the bath overflow.

Corgi Guy.

no idea where it goes the whole thing is boxed in (1970's pine cladding) except the top bit that you can lift off.

Thanks for that idea,I will look for that tomorrow and check the ballcock works ok!

Canucklehead

Hi

About the age to have a forerunner of one of these ....... http://www.hartons.co.uk/plumbingunitsets.html#sys2

Over flow would go to the same place.

Corgi Guy.

jay_cee_2

hmm, a new flat he has moved into too.... maybe it is ghosts then?!
in all seriousness, hope you get everything solved and that no damage occurred.

annie123

Thanks jay cee
the couple below are really nice, only spoken to them once but DS really hopes there was not enough water to cause damage to their flat.
Not what they want from new neighbours!!

Hopefully after hunting around a bit more tomorrow something might make sense DS very woried about it happening again.......if not then ghosts is going on the insurance form if its needed!

annie123

I tried to cause a flood again by letting the toilet cystern overflow, no joy.

did manage to turn the tap off and leave a drip every 10 seconds or so.

something must have happened that started and then stopped the tap dripping again. the water pressure does drop when another flat above uses the water, one tank in the loft of the building for the 4 flats below. Could that have affected a dripping tap in any way?

Dont think we will ever know, which is worrying because it could happen again.

son very worried what damage has been done to the flat below they come back wed/thur. They have only lived there for 48 hours before they went away for xmas. Not a good start.

Did discover that the bath and sink overflows are both blocked....no water went down them even after 2 hours!!


How do you unblock an overflow please?

Ghost

I can quite catagorically state that I am not and never have been near your son's bathroom!

annie123

Ghost wrote: »

I can quite catagorically state that I am not and never have been near your son's bathroom!

dont believe you!:p
and keep away from mine:D

BobProperty

annie123 wrote: »

....did manage to turn the tap off and leave a drip every 10 seconds or so.

something must have happened that started and then stopped the tap dripping again. the water pressure does drop when another flat above uses the water, one tank in the loft of the building for the 4 flats below. Could that have affected a dripping tap in any way?

There is the chance that the tap doesn't close off properly and late at night and in the early hours the water pressure effectively goes up, so you could get some water flow during that time which may be enough to cause the problem.

annie123 wrote: »

Did discover that the bath and sink overflows are both blocked....no water went down them even after 2 hours!!


How do you unblock an overflow please?

Very carefully as chances are it's not well put together. Hardly anyone checks overflows and quite often they aren't watertight (you don't want to know some of the bodges I've seen but they include mixing incompatible fittings, unconnected pipes and pipework that goes above the overflow inlet :eek:) If you are just talking about the pipe from the overflow to the trap then carefully rodding it out should work or, in the case of the sink, just disconnecting it off the waste and emptying it into a bucket. If you are talking about the whole arrangement within the flats then I'd be very careful and possibly think about "sucking" at it with a "wet and dry" vacuum.

skintarooney

Is it possible that the fish could have done a really big wee??:rotfl: