Just installed first shower but ..

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

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 ..
 
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How long is the waste pipe? What sort of trap do you have? How steep is the waste pipe fall?
 
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 ..
 
Trap or plughole blocked, have you taken the trap off to clean it out?
 
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Yep done that ..

I think it is more to do with the amount of water ..
 
The "logjam" is most likely due to the restriction created by the design of plughole.
 
Anyone got any experience of a fast flow waste , do they work ??
 
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
 
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.
 
The thing about the flow restrictor is that the op has (if memory serves me correctly) installed a pump to increase the flow ;)
 
Option 1 sounds best if that does not work == option 4 will surffice ..

:) :) :) :)
 
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.
 

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