Best tool for blocked toilets

[watertight]

Guys

Wonder if some of you fellow plumbers would be able to offer me some advice.

As a plumber operating in inner city Leeds I am quite often asked to unblock WCs in office blocks, while most of these do not pose too many problems (where blockages are usually local to the pan) there are times when I can not shift them. I use a range of tools as well as blockage cleaner chemicals (not very often).

The most useful I have found is http://www.qvcuk.com/ukgasp/framese...emNumberRedirect.asp&country=uk&txtDesc=drain
which is excellent for local blockages.

I wonder if any of you would be able to suggest other tools that you have used that are good for removing blockages (especially blockages further along the waste system). Price is not necessarily a limiting factor providing that you're not talking absolutely silly money.

Cheers,

Mark

 

[ChrisR]

Yer. I have had some luck withthe springy doofer which has a tube about a yard long with a bend at the end - Monument I think, but this thing

is the bog's dollocks. That's in the kraut site but my local p chain sells it for £60 + vat. It's a Ropump Super. Basically you suck up a load of water - a few litres - and then jump on it. It comes with rubber ends so you can apply it to showers etc too, and you can buy "Timesaver" rubber couplings to make it fit pipes of any size.

Its good for shared wastes - you get a lot of water moving.

I'd be interested to know which of the QVC products you use - the Pango one?

Also
http://www.rothenberger.de/uploads/media/ROPUMP_Super.pdf

http://www.rothenberger-tool-uk-sales-and-hire.co.uk/22_drain_cleaning_equipment.html

 

[kevplumb]

dont use it on pushfit wastes

can be messy

 

[watertight]

Chris,

It's the 2nd one down, sorry thought I'd given a specific product there!

I like the look of the rothenberger tool, I'll speak to my local merchant about it. From experience is it able to clear blockages further down the line?

I noticed Pulsar Direct sell one just like the Super (not Pro) for £49.36 exc.

 

[ChrisR]

One cust has a loo with no accessible connection to the main sewer - ie no man ole. Unfortunately I used one of those pan cons with a 1 1/4" access on top for the basin to go into. The loo often runs slow - if you flush it twice quickly when it's blocked the water backs up into the bowl but drops again slowly - take 10 - 15 secs I suppose.
You can imagin that it isn't possible to seal the basin,so the humpin pumpin shoves water back up the basin waste. Even so, with what restriction it's possible to manage at the basin, the soft blockage in the wc's waste does move along.
For faraway partial blockages you have trouble filling the pan with water, so a ball of tissue makes a plug you CAN shift. Once the whole waste is full of water it's like a direct connection to your plunger.

 

[PEDANTICVINDICTIVEMAN]

TNT

 

[ChrisR]

Er not quite, but Sulphuric acid is pretty amazingly effective. Trouble comes when it DOESN'T clear the pipe - you have a lot of it splashing about.

 

[htgeng]

Er not quite, but Sulphuric acid is pretty amazingly effective. Trouble comes when it DOESN'T clear the pipe - you have a lot of it splashing about.

I'll stick with heating systems . i never really have fun unblocking toilets.

 

[ChrisR]

Yer average WC clears very easily, so I offer to do it for £50, or nowt if I fail. So the job's over in seconds - or I give up after a few minutes. No shoving my arm down soil pipes solid with poo. "Sorry I don't have the equipment call Dyno Blast".

 

[corgiman]

Totally with chris

that rrotherberger thingy is just the ticket