Glugging kitchen sink

Yes. What's the best way to sort it? I can't seem to get the pipes apart. I thought they just pushed together.
 
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Unfortunately they are solvent welded together. So can be cut say half way down ,cleaned out ,and a coupling used to solvent weld them together.(sections replaced if need be ).
 
There are drain cleaning chemicals on the market ,which you could try ,but I am not one to recommend them. I am not saying they dont work ,Maybe they do in certain circumstances ,I have never used any. Not a fan of putting chemicals into drains. The pipe run in your pic is less than twenty quid to buy and I could renew it in half an hour or less !!
 
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Best get someone out then. It's a rented house but trying to get repairs done is a nightmare. I was hoping it would be something I could tackle myself. I don't suppose one of those snake cable thingies would work?
 
You could try it. It's not difficult to cut the pipe with a saw and fit a coupler. Solvent welding, basically ,is just like using glue to stick them together again.
 
Has anyone had any experience of the snake cable? Could I feed it up from the drain end or would it need to be fed into the pipe from under the sink?
 
Usually from the sink end ,so you are pushing any crud outward to the open pipe end
 
Yep it's only just appeared. So how do I use it from the sink end? Do I take the trap off and poke it down there?
 
I'll try one of those first then and if that fails I'll have to moan to the landlord. I hope I have speedier success with the snake!
Thankyou so much for your advice and help :D:D:D
 
Get a plunger and plunge the sink, a pump plunger like one of these would be best

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