Recent content by alistairolsen

Thanks for all the replies folks. It's looking like a chamber is a good way to go, not cheap though! Well the pipe is set in gravel, in the earth by the look of things, and then that earth is covered in membrane and then gravel, so shoprt of a large concrete slab laid specifically to hold...

Yes, but surely not if all thats holding it up is the pipe? These plastic inspection chambers look like a reasonable alternative, but again, will they break up if someone drives over it? It's not deep at all, but is there any harm in fitting the larger one? Thanks for all the advice!

So the Connection I'm looking at is the manhole between the kitchen and the bedroom (where the manhole was evidently never built: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w7bohfk6z29dxiu/IMG_20150222_194054.jpg After some digging, I found this...

Thanks for the reply I don't really want a rodding point if I can avoid it as it still leaves the redundant leg to take the energy out of the water and catch solids and start the blockage, hence the radiused bend. I appreciated a bigger radius would be better, but due to its location...

Hi, If I have put this in the wrong subforum, sorry! It seemed more appropriate to building than the plumbing and hot water topics. Last weekend I had the delightful job of clearing blocked drains around my house (rural, septic tank, private drains etc.) and in the process, after a lot of...

Hi there, I decided to replace the tap washers in my kitchen tap to cure a drip, but they're not 1/2" washers as Id imagined, they look like this: With a bore of 6mm, OD of 16mm and a thickness of around 3.8mm. I'm not sure whether they were always tophat shaped, or have just deformed...