Hi,
Our drain has blocked - it's outside and it's one of those ones where the gutter and kitchen waste pipe just spew waste water directly onto a small grate on the ground adjacent to the kitchen wall. That part of the ground is lowered slightly - it's all concrete.
Right now it's overflowed and has not gone down in the past 24 hours - I have about 6 inches of water at the deepest part directly above the hole. Which is above both the gutter and kitchen pipe outputs. The weird thing was after noticing it, another member of the household actually ran a load though the washing machine, and after that the overall level returned to normal - it just has not subsided further.
Despite protest from my senses (it's rather smelly) I have removed the grate and had a good poke around with a broom handle - it feels like the hole actually tapers down to a point about 1/2 ft from ground level and there doesn't appear to be any left or right junction - although the large diameter pipe that comes from the toilet feeds into a drain with manhole cover 4 or 5 metres to the left.
The input to this drain is sink and washing machine water.
Any short term advice to a complete newbie? I have a hose but the water pressure is negligible. People have suggested a bucket of hot water but the level is so high I am not sure if it would go anywhere near the problem before being diluted and chilled by the other water.
Thanks,
HS
Our drain has blocked - it's outside and it's one of those ones where the gutter and kitchen waste pipe just spew waste water directly onto a small grate on the ground adjacent to the kitchen wall. That part of the ground is lowered slightly - it's all concrete.
Right now it's overflowed and has not gone down in the past 24 hours - I have about 6 inches of water at the deepest part directly above the hole. Which is above both the gutter and kitchen pipe outputs. The weird thing was after noticing it, another member of the household actually ran a load though the washing machine, and after that the overall level returned to normal - it just has not subsided further.
Despite protest from my senses (it's rather smelly) I have removed the grate and had a good poke around with a broom handle - it feels like the hole actually tapers down to a point about 1/2 ft from ground level and there doesn't appear to be any left or right junction - although the large diameter pipe that comes from the toilet feeds into a drain with manhole cover 4 or 5 metres to the left.
The input to this drain is sink and washing machine water.
Any short term advice to a complete newbie? I have a hose but the water pressure is negligible. People have suggested a bucket of hot water but the level is so high I am not sure if it would go anywhere near the problem before being diluted and chilled by the other water.
Thanks,
HS