Just installed first shower but ..

[Taxi1]

Hi . Just installed my first shower and it is working perfectly so many thanks to you who advised on my previous posts

but i have one very slight problem , the shower is installed over the bath and the waste water takes a while to drain off .

What is the best and easiest way around this ..

Do I have to increase the waste water pipe angle which means drilling a new enternal hole or is there a fast flow trap i can buy ..

Many Thanks

Jason ..

 

[cantaloup63]

How long is the waste pipe? What sort of trap do you have? How steep is the waste pipe fall?

 

[Taxi1]

The waste pipe is about 6ft long which goes straight out to the drain i am in a bungalow , pipe is about 4inch from the floor at the front of the bath and 2inch at the rear ..

 

[xr4x4]

Trap or plughole blocked, have you taken the trap off to clean it out?

 

[Taxi1]

Yep done that ..

I think it is more to do with the amount of water ..

 

[cantaloup63]

The "logjam" is most likely due to the restriction created by the design of plughole.

 

[Taxi1]

Anyone got any experience of a fast flow waste , do they work ??

 

[cantaloup63]

Anyone got any experience of a fast flow waste , do they work ??

Obviously they do, hence their name. However, the problem will still be the size and design of the chrome plughole.

As I see it, you have one of several choices some of which are:
1/. Find a different style of plughole with larger holes in it
2/. Use an inline pump to try to "suck" the water out
3/. Enlarge the plughole and install a shower waste.
4/. Live with it

 

[Charnwood]

5/. Fit a flow restrictor to the shower. Measure how fast the current waste takes away water and fit the closest rated flow restrictor.

I'd go for option 4. Its a bath and it's not likely to overflow, is it.

 

[cantaloup63]

The thing about the flow restrictor is that the op has (if memory serves me correctly) installed a pump to increase the flow

 

[Charnwood]

Forget option 5!

 

[Taxi1]

Option 1 sounds best if that does not work == option 4 will surffice ..

 

[ban-all-sheds]

It might be worth trying (and if it works, regularly using) caustic soda or a good proprietary drain cleaner. Block off the overflow outlet and vigourously apply an unblocking plunger - if you find you're sucking up evil smelling debris then have a go with the cleaner. And invest in a Dossil.