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Decided to cut off solvent welded pipe. Unscrewed the remaining BSP adaptor from the stack (was seized and needed a Stillson wrench). A bast*** of a job as very little room. There was no valve, just a big wodge of tightly packed hair and other debris. The stack boss was constricted with solid...

The plastic 110 is only a short 65mm make-up section and has a flexi mounted into it coming from the toilet.

As you say, been like it since new (circa 1970). It's in a block of 10 flats. The soil stack is shared with one other flat (that is below this one). Not near an outside wall; MAJOR building work would be required to change its design. Even if I take out the WC I won't be able to reach the...

The soil pipe from the adjacent toilet enters the left side of the stack (just out of shot) and is vertically just above the waste connector in the stack, so I guess it's possible it might be gunged up. Toilet empties fine though.

Yes, new trap fitted. Bath still full of water with no plug in it! Just used the spring when the trap was off. That's when I felt some sort of valve/flap at the stack end.

Could the forum please help with a problem I have with my bath tub plumbing. I have a bath with an overhead electric shower and recently the waste water has been increasingly slow to drain. I tried the usual clearing methods (which didn't work). Today I've removed the bath waste trap only to...