Hello all,
Hope you can help please. I have a suspicion that our upstairs ensuite could be blocked somewhere having looked at other threads.
We had an ensuite built upstairs about 2-3yrs ago. The soil pipe has been made as complicated as it gets with about 3 bends before it gets to the vertical stack plus the basin and shower outlets coming into it. Then there are about 4 bends before the straight run to the manhole. The problem shows when the wc pan empties of water when flushed and then the water slowly glugs back into the pan to near normal level. I thought there was a rodding point at the base of the svp but on unscrewing it there is a sort blind blanking plug underneath. Any ideas how I can try to unblock it if this is the problem. I've tried chemicals (friendly and unfriendly) and buckets of water but am unsure of using a metal bendy rod from the top in case I damage something. Incidentally we still haven't had the building control inspector out for the pressure test and the final certificate yet as our builder can't seem to get it organised. I wonder why now!
Any advice gratefully received.
Penny
Hope you can help please. I have a suspicion that our upstairs ensuite could be blocked somewhere having looked at other threads.
We had an ensuite built upstairs about 2-3yrs ago. The soil pipe has been made as complicated as it gets with about 3 bends before it gets to the vertical stack plus the basin and shower outlets coming into it. Then there are about 4 bends before the straight run to the manhole. The problem shows when the wc pan empties of water when flushed and then the water slowly glugs back into the pan to near normal level. I thought there was a rodding point at the base of the svp but on unscrewing it there is a sort blind blanking plug underneath. Any ideas how I can try to unblock it if this is the problem. I've tried chemicals (friendly and unfriendly) and buckets of water but am unsure of using a metal bendy rod from the top in case I damage something. Incidentally we still haven't had the building control inspector out for the pressure test and the final certificate yet as our builder can't seem to get it organised. I wonder why now!
Any advice gratefully received.
Penny