Hi
Just spent the afternoon rodding the drains as I had two manholes full of you know what.
I think I've found the problem - I think a drain has been broken about 2' before the last manhole. Reasons for this deduction are that the last manhole was clear but had a fair bit of soil in and there is a 'rat' hole directly above where I think the break is. Steam was coming out of the hol;e when I was flushing with bath water. I reckon British Gas Transco must have broken it when they installed gas a couple of years ago (beofre I bought the property) as the rat hole is directly in line with the gas meter box!
I will try a call to Transco (or National Grid as they are now) to see if they'll do the repair...but in the meantiome I'll probably dig a big hole to have a look at what's broken.
What can be done to repair a section of drainage pipe...can you cut a bit in? It looks like it is ceramic?
many thanks
Richard
Just spent the afternoon rodding the drains as I had two manholes full of you know what.
I think I've found the problem - I think a drain has been broken about 2' before the last manhole. Reasons for this deduction are that the last manhole was clear but had a fair bit of soil in and there is a 'rat' hole directly above where I think the break is. Steam was coming out of the hol;e when I was flushing with bath water. I reckon British Gas Transco must have broken it when they installed gas a couple of years ago (beofre I bought the property) as the rat hole is directly in line with the gas meter box!
I will try a call to Transco (or National Grid as they are now) to see if they'll do the repair...but in the meantiome I'll probably dig a big hole to have a look at what's broken.
What can be done to repair a section of drainage pipe...can you cut a bit in? It looks like it is ceramic?
many thanks
Richard