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I couldn't work out what the smell was coming through the dishwasher. D/w OK. Looked at the outside drain - this dark foul-smelling goo in there. Needed rodding, got quote - no way am I paying that much!!!! So I improvised and did it myself. The silt chamber was so disgusting - including a dead bird, how the hell did that get in there - that I kept gagging. The flap into the bit where the drain comes off the chamber was stuck hard with much the same. The drain from the chamber into the manhole similar. So necessity being the mother of invention I unblocked what I could with a wooden spoon, and then my hands! - got the powerhose out to dislodge more, of course it all sprayed the muck back over me. Result is that although the drain is now sort of clearit's not perfect, but I am covered in sh*t from head to toe but I have saved £85:D
Ed, if you don't av many showers before tuesday pm you will be forced to ride in your usual following position but at least 500 yards back. we'll follow our noses to your house for 7.oo pm. :smt023
Daryl.
dirtydog
08-09-07, 08:38 PM
Ah yeah drains are never plaesant things to have to clear out especially kitchen ones!!!
I cleared a blocked drain from a kitchen a few weeks ago and it had about 5cm of grease and food that had solidified on the top and then some more in the u-bend :pukel:
:laughat::puker:
oh yes, don't you just love drains! ;)
3 things you really ought to have if you're a house owner
1 - drain rods (plus some decent long rubber/pvc gloves) - I spent the little extra and got rods that have a square lock and sleeve nut so they don't unscrew. Nothing worse than realising there are 2 rod sections and a plunger somewhere down a length of drain when you pull it out again.
2 - sink drain flush pump, like http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?cId=A335540&ts=83826&id=13894
just don't get too carried away or you can force apart joints in waste pipes. It'll sort out bathroom sink traps full of hair etc. It purges water back and forth to clean out deposits. I found out that some cheapo sinks have the overflow channel open to the fixing screw holes, so water was coming out of the fixings and running down the wall as I used it!
3 - best of all, one of these http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?cId=A335540&ts=83963&id=11325
I used mine a week or so ago to sort out a long length of waste from a bathroom sink running behind a bath, all clogged up with soap scum. Lovely!
There isn't much one of the three won't shift!
dirtydog
08-09-07, 08:54 PM
there is of course the chemical unblockers which are good for soap scum
Ed, if you don't av many showers before tuesday pm you will be forced to ride in your usual following position but at least 500 yards back. we'll follow our noses to your house for 7.oo pm. :smt023
Daryl.
The 'following position' is to ensure that your stabilisers don't fall off.
it'sablueone
08-09-07, 09:41 PM
I found the best thing in the world for unblocking plugs and drains so i married her :smt023(must say if it was not for her hair and all the crap women use they would not block up in the first place but she sorts its)
:laughat::puker:
3 - best of all, one of these http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/pro.jsp?cId=A335540&ts=83963&id=11325
I used mine a week or so ago to sort out a long length of waste from a bathroom sink running behind a bath, all clogged up with soap scum. Lovely!
There isn't much one of the three won't shift!
This looks ace. Am ordering.
dirtydog
09-09-07, 07:36 AM
This looks ace. Am ordering.
It's definitely worth having one of them
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