Hi guys,
I hope you can help me- I have been struggling with our kitchen sink for about a year now and still we haven't solved our problem.
This might be a bit of a saga - I'm assuming the more info I provide the easier it will be to fix!
Here are some general notes:
Drain seems to be blocked - a plumber came to unblock it and he used a wet vac to suck up the mess. About 10 vac fulls later (he was getting up rancid rotting food from the pipe) he recommended a man with a high pressure hose.
Nice guy with a van + hose turns up - jets the pipe from the outside, sticks a camera up the pipe and all is clear, but sink still not emptying. Sticks a rotary spring type clearer to a drill and goes down the pipe from the sink and eventually it clears.
Recently I've rodded from the outside and had no luck. Stuck a spring type clearer down (10m in length), felt no blockage and still the thing won't clear.
This leads me to asking for your help - do I simply have a blocked pipe or is this due to a vacuum/syphon or some other concept that I am unaware of?
Diagrams!
Under the sink:
I've noticed that the dishwasher is attached via a hose + jubilee clips. Do we need a proper one way valve here? Could it cause a vacuum?
Plan view:
As you can see we have a join under the floor - I cant see it (all concreted) however the waste from upstairs flows fine. Rodding from the outside normally means my rods go upstairs and not to the kitchen sink.
The only thing I can't work out is what sort of join exists under the floor where the pipe from the kitchen sink goes into the ground. Is there some sort of U-bend fitted into the ground that could be blocking? The house is about 8 years old if that helps.
Any help whatsoever would be very much appreciated
I hope you can help me- I have been struggling with our kitchen sink for about a year now and still we haven't solved our problem.
This might be a bit of a saga - I'm assuming the more info I provide the easier it will be to fix!
Here are some general notes:
Drain seems to be blocked - a plumber came to unblock it and he used a wet vac to suck up the mess. About 10 vac fulls later (he was getting up rancid rotting food from the pipe) he recommended a man with a high pressure hose.
Nice guy with a van + hose turns up - jets the pipe from the outside, sticks a camera up the pipe and all is clear, but sink still not emptying. Sticks a rotary spring type clearer to a drill and goes down the pipe from the sink and eventually it clears.
Recently I've rodded from the outside and had no luck. Stuck a spring type clearer down (10m in length), felt no blockage and still the thing won't clear.
This leads me to asking for your help - do I simply have a blocked pipe or is this due to a vacuum/syphon or some other concept that I am unaware of?
Diagrams!
Under the sink:
I've noticed that the dishwasher is attached via a hose + jubilee clips. Do we need a proper one way valve here? Could it cause a vacuum?
Plan view:
As you can see we have a join under the floor - I cant see it (all concreted) however the waste from upstairs flows fine. Rodding from the outside normally means my rods go upstairs and not to the kitchen sink.
The only thing I can't work out is what sort of join exists under the floor where the pipe from the kitchen sink goes into the ground. Is there some sort of U-bend fitted into the ground that could be blocking? The house is about 8 years old if that helps.
Any help whatsoever would be very much appreciated