Hello,
I've been trying to unblock a kitchen/garden drain and lifted the inspection chamber to the front of the house to see what was in there. I found 6 or so inlets. These presumably come from my and surrounding houses.
I'd bought a set of rods but the inlets in my house's direction were blocked with a plastic blue cover. What are these? At a guess I thought they were non return valves and this being the case I thought how do you rod upstream? Do they give way with a certain amount of force?
I have two smaller inspection chambers (for want of a better word) and when I tried to rod these I again could not get the rod through as there seemed to be a blockage which sounded plasticky - almost like another set of darned non return flap/valves. I could rod downstream though (fat lot of use of course).
I would rod downstream from the actual drain which overflows but the pipe is too sharp to get the rods down and the auger I have doesn't have the muscle to find a way through.
Does anyone have any suggestions? The house is c1990 and I am just about to call a pro in but am baulking at the £100ish charge (which I can hardly spare) especially as I bought the rods.
I've been trying to unblock a kitchen/garden drain and lifted the inspection chamber to the front of the house to see what was in there. I found 6 or so inlets. These presumably come from my and surrounding houses.
I'd bought a set of rods but the inlets in my house's direction were blocked with a plastic blue cover. What are these? At a guess I thought they were non return valves and this being the case I thought how do you rod upstream? Do they give way with a certain amount of force?
I have two smaller inspection chambers (for want of a better word) and when I tried to rod these I again could not get the rod through as there seemed to be a blockage which sounded plasticky - almost like another set of darned non return flap/valves. I could rod downstream though (fat lot of use of course).
I would rod downstream from the actual drain which overflows but the pipe is too sharp to get the rods down and the auger I have doesn't have the muscle to find a way through.
Does anyone have any suggestions? The house is c1990 and I am just about to call a pro in but am baulking at the £100ish charge (which I can hardly spare) especially as I bought the rods.