Do check your drain chambers periodically
 

This is a disgusting tale. You'd think that with a major build project, the builder or the plumber would have done a drains test. You'd think wrong.

There's been a bit of a drains pong in the downstairs bathroom for a while and the loo hasn't flushed away properly... blocked drain. Even though we don't use it very much, must've got blocked somehow. Self, add that to the list of jobs. What better time than Sunday morning, bright and sunny, woodpeckers doing overtime, all is well with the world:D

But nothing prepared me for this:smt101

Only scroll down if you have a seriously strong stomach.

I mean it.

It's gross:pukel:

Mega gross in fact:pukel::pukel:

Maybe even mega mega gross:pukel::pukel::pukel:

OK you have been warned, don't say I didn't tell you..

The drain cover is cast iron and the handles have long since rusted away, so I got a sapde and lifted the edge. And I simply couldn't believe what I was seeing. And smelling.

Are you ready?

Don't say I didn't tell you. Scroll on down.





























http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/100_1302.jpg


This was after I'd removed the blockage and started hosing it. The chamber was full of tish, I'd say it had been blocked for a few years. It was like a slurry pit, only human, the stench made me heave for England. The chamber was full, no wonder the loo wouldn't flush properly. Well anyway once I'd removed the blockage - unidentified paper objects, I'm guessing sanitary towels - with a VERY long stick, I hosed it out and all the ick broke up. Took about an hour of hosing.

Absolutely disgusting.

And now it looks like this:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...e/100_1303.jpg

And then the woodpeckers started again, so all was well:D:D:D:D

Re: Do check your drain chambers periodically
 

Yep seen that a few times, worst was under a floor when their soil pipe was leaking, whole house stunk.
I sent my nephew under the floor to investigate :) he found a lake of waste :(

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I hope you washed your hands!

I bought a Karcher drainclearing hose when we had a blockage. Worked a treat. Shame I couldn't have just poked it with a stick.

Pete ;)

Re: Do check your drain chambers periodically
 

lovely!!!

Ed I think you need to go to the docs :lol:
Nothing like that phases me after a saw me mate go in after his camera into mountain of turds.

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Nice (not)!

I've had to deal with ships waste tanks in the past, 14 mens worth of chilli con carne & curry diet, not nice :(

I've opened a tank to be met with a wall of poo before :(

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Surprised they didn't get knocked from the trees with the pong!:smt037

I've seen worse, and can only imagine the stench, judging from how my dad used to stink when he came home from a days unblocking drains:smt101

Although our bathroom drain gets blocked often, due to long blonde hair getting trapped, even after removing it from the plughole every time!

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my mum and dad had this before, was due to one of the neighbours flushing nappies down the bog-there drain was similar, i rammed a stick down it and next thing badoom! $hit and bits everywhere and i was covered-learned my lesson that day

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eeek.. yuck. 10/10 to you for actually tackling it.. woulda put the lid back down and called the plumber :)

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S***t, where did all that come from?

:)

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Ed's a Solicitor.

Pete ;)

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must admit, I only have to smell the dogs fart and it makes me gip, so fair play for carrying out the task and surviving!

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Nothing like wading through a mile of shyte and coming out clean on the other side. :D

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When me and the ex-wife <spit> lived in Norwich our drain got blocked for the second time - the first was with artex that a workman who did some work for us flushed down the loo, so we knew the drain had been cleared at one point since we'd moved in. The drain from our gaff to the main sewer was shared with next door, who were a newly wed, quite religous and apparently very straight laced young couple. When my sister-in-law's friend came out to unblock the drain he found it rammed full of used condoms. They weren't ours cos my ex was on the pill, and her sister who shared our house with her bloke was on the pill too.

I explained the situation to the next door neighbour, who sheepishly admitted that they did dispose of quite a few of the London Rubber Company's finest used offerings via the loo. There were literally hundreds of the things, and they'd only lived there about 4 months after taking on the property from an old lady who lived alone. That lovely religious and clean living lass must have been banged senseless multiple times every bloody night by him.

After that I used to give her a smile and a crafty wink every time I saw her.

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now thats what i call a sh!tty job.

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I wondered what the big dark cloud was over Baschurch was, now I know, I also know where the Haz Chem unit from Shrewsbury was going now. I suppose you blamed all the local farms when your neighbours complained about the smell. :D:D

daryl.

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time for a bad joke...

someone must have had a banging curry the other night Ed


I'll get me Hazmat suit!!

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Well I'm not that keen on curry stuff so weren't me!!!

And Daryl no I didn't blame the farmers, I said it's my friend over at Longden, farting for Shropshire:smt048

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Ed, I have a new level of respect for you, you sir are the Man.



:smt080

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not yet had to tackle that job myself however a trick is to use dust masks covered in vics vapour rub apparently it over rules nearly all other smells..

good effort btw.

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The does work for the record

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Maybe a bit late Ed, but for the future?

http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/l...ndex_18820.htm

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I'd have thought he'd have retained more than that then ;)