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Thames Water turned up yesterday while I wasn't at home and unblocked the drainage. I don't know what it was this time because they didn't call me before they came out. :( While I was in B&Q yesterday, I saw this drainage unblocker liquid (I believe it was sulphuric acid). Shall I get one of...

The same "main drainage" is blocked again. Noticed it yesterday when cloak room started smelling. The first thing I did was to remove the lid of that chamber and I saw what I didn't want to see. I'm thinking of buying the drain rods today and would try to fix it myself. But I'm worried why it...

According to Screwfix the original price for Makita ones is £59.99 and they've it on special offer until September so I'll be surprised if the quality isn't up to Makita standards. But I think I'm going to buy Makita ones. :)

I'm a bit confused which one of these two to buy so I really hope someone can help me out. :) I'm a keen DIYer (or at least I think I am). I've got a Bosch 18v li-on drill and I would like to buy one of these two to help me out with all the tasks I could possibly do within my house...

Space cat that certainly makes sense and that's something I wanted to do. As I only moved in this house few months ago, still learning about it so it'll be good to have better understanding of the drainage system. THANKS a lot for this great tip.

I'm so glad and relieved its all sorted now. Thames Water sent some third-party guys out to find out the cause of the blockage. These chaps were very generous and they decided to un-block the pipes even though it wasn't Thames Water's issue. I've updated the previous picture so you could see...

Space cat thanks a lot for quite reply. I would had loved to take a picture of the inside of the chamber but right now you'll see nothing but all the filthy water because water is upto the ground level in it. Just to give you guys heads up, I rang council who told me to ring Thames Water and I...

I'm even more confused about this now. Really could do with some advise. Yesterday I realised the blockage was at a completely different location. Please see the below picture. I've marked the blockage chamber in red circle. The green circle is roughly where the new chamber was fitted few weeks...

I'm afraid all the manholes in this house are buried.

Thanks guys, I can post the pictures but I would need to wait until the weather improves because the new chamber is under the paving blocks so I'll need to remove all those before I could even get to chamber and this crappy weather won't let me do much. :(

I don't think I've got intercept trap. I'm thinking of digging the paving blocks sometime this week to inspect the new chamber and all the other work this idiot plumber did underground. If there's anything that's causing the issue there would hopefully be visible. I would really appreciate any...

I've got another slight issue now and I'm not sure if its related. My cloackroom has been quite smelly for last 3/4 days now. I can't see how the en-suite blockage could be linked with this because en-suite piping is going directly into the sewage pipe. Cloakroom doesn't have a window so I've...

Here's your answers: 1 and 2 - Yes I've got two separate drains, one for sewage and the other is for rainwater. I know plumber has used the correct one because while he had cut into the pipe to install the chamber, another toilet was flushed (not on purpose) and all the water came out from...

dal5band thanks for your very informative response. All the piping is external and its a detached house. The other house is good 5 meters or so away from ours and there are no windows of my house anywhere near the hole. I'm thinking of removing the bend which is coming out of the external wall...

Thanks for all your replies. There's no air vent and my father-in-law told me air was trapped in the pipes so I made a tiny hole at the top of the bend which then leads pipes down to the underground sewage and it seems to have done the trick. Water is flushing nicely now. So my question now is...

Thanks for your response. No its a modern toilet and I can't understand where the blockage could be. Because from the toilet outlet to the main guttering pipe, its all new piping and we've never thrown anything in the toilet apart from the toilet tissues. :(

I've got a really strange blockage issue with my en-suite toilet so I'm hoping someone can advise what to do about it. When I bought this house, the toilet was being flushed by a "saniflow" so when it packed up, I decided to get the proper piping in place. Got all that sorted last month. Couple...

Its an old post but I just want to share my experience with ADI. Not much different than this one. I personally think they're useless and one should avoid them. I've got major leakage but they didn't find anything the first time. Told me it could be my boiler so got boiler checked and as...

I think I'm about to start pulling my hair on this now. I called a leakage detection company to work out where the leakage was. The guy spent the whole day but he couldn't find any leakage. No hot spots were seen in his thermal imaging camera and he filled the system with the gas but after 3...