Hello,
I’d be very grateful for some advice on a plumbing issue we’re having.
We’ve moved into a second floor flat that we’re renovating. Behind the bathroom wall is a recess within the building. The waste pipe heads through the bathroom wall and joins the building communal waste (I believe, although I haven’t actually seen behind the wall). We’ve been showering for weeks and the bath has drained with no problems.
The washing machine arrived and yesterday we connected this via a spigot in the waste trap under the kitchen sink. This is connected to a 4m long 50mm waste pipe that runs through the kitchen wall into the bathroom (under the tub) and out of the flat through the shared wall into that recess to join the building communal waste.
Our 50mm waste pipe is a single waste pipe that the bathtub is also connected to (via a u bend trap and 40mm pipe).
The bathroom sink and toilet waste pipes head through the bathroom wall independently into the recess.
When we ran the washing machine dirty water backed up into the bathtub. Loud gurgling noises could be heard from the kitchen sink waste during and after the washing machine cycle.
We closed the bathplug pop up and opened the 40mm waste pipe, had a look, inserted a rod to clear any blockages. There didn’t seem to be any (which made sense to us as we’d had no bathtub draining problems thus far).
When the bathtub pop up was closed the gurgling sound in the kitchen waste increased, making us wonder whether it might be something to do with air lock?
We opened the bathtub pop up and this drained eventually but very slowly. This morning when I showered the bathtub wasn’t draining properly.
We could replace the long waste pipe with a new one. We’re just a bit of a loss as to why the bathtub won’t drain now when this was working perfectly fine before.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks
I’d be very grateful for some advice on a plumbing issue we’re having.
We’ve moved into a second floor flat that we’re renovating. Behind the bathroom wall is a recess within the building. The waste pipe heads through the bathroom wall and joins the building communal waste (I believe, although I haven’t actually seen behind the wall). We’ve been showering for weeks and the bath has drained with no problems.
The washing machine arrived and yesterday we connected this via a spigot in the waste trap under the kitchen sink. This is connected to a 4m long 50mm waste pipe that runs through the kitchen wall into the bathroom (under the tub) and out of the flat through the shared wall into that recess to join the building communal waste.
Our 50mm waste pipe is a single waste pipe that the bathtub is also connected to (via a u bend trap and 40mm pipe).
The bathroom sink and toilet waste pipes head through the bathroom wall independently into the recess.
When we ran the washing machine dirty water backed up into the bathtub. Loud gurgling noises could be heard from the kitchen sink waste during and after the washing machine cycle.
We closed the bathplug pop up and opened the 40mm waste pipe, had a look, inserted a rod to clear any blockages. There didn’t seem to be any (which made sense to us as we’d had no bathtub draining problems thus far).
When the bathtub pop up was closed the gurgling sound in the kitchen waste increased, making us wonder whether it might be something to do with air lock?
We opened the bathtub pop up and this drained eventually but very slowly. This morning when I showered the bathtub wasn’t draining properly.
We could replace the long waste pipe with a new one. We’re just a bit of a loss as to why the bathtub won’t drain now when this was working perfectly fine before.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Thanks