Drainage

[mpheating]

my toilet keeps blocking up, I keep rodding the drain and away it goes, after 3 times I got ****ed off and removed toilet to investigate further.

just before the POT drainage starts to ben it joins, the joint has come apart allowing toilet tissue + 1 wet wipe to get caught which is allowing other toiet paper to stick and block up around the bend...


my question is, without chopping up the floor to put a super sleve/plastic pipe in is there an easy fix as my floor has laminate wood down with skirting on top with nice wallpaper...

cheers

 

[HERTS P&D]

Looks like your floor will be coming up.

Andy

 

[mpheating]

I know that's what im thinking, I can see where it joins and its only about 250mm down so I can get my hand on it, I could clean the joint out and make it up with something but what do I use?? cant think of anything that would be good enough

 

[mpheating]

does anybody know about pipe relining?

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

Pipe lining will probably involve doing the entire run from W.C. to manhole, and be expensive. If you can reach down there then make good the joint with some strong (high cement content) mortar and allow plenty of time to dry before replacing the pan. Hopefully this will remove the edge on which material is catching, and solve the problem.

However, wipes of any description should not be going down the W.C.! Whilst the manufacturers describe some as 'flushable', all that means is they'll go round the U bend. Once in the drains they do not break down, instead bunging up the sewers and jamming pumps, costing all of us in the long term with increased water charges!

 

[mpheating]

I didn't realise she was flushing them as im a plumbing and heating engineer myself. She got what for the first time it blocked up, I think the wipe had got stuck first time around and then more tissue has been able to stick to it.


run from w/c to manhole is only 2 metres so price may not be as bad but i think i will have a go at making it good first. it was the material used to make it good that i was struggling with...