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

But nothing prepared me for this

Only scroll down if you have a seriously strong stomach.

I mean it.

It's gross

Mega gross in fact

Maybe even mega mega gross

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.
































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:



And then the woodpeckers started again, so all was well

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

[Bluepete]

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

[andrewsmith]

lovely!!!

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

[maviczap]

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

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Ed

.And then the woodpeckers started again, so all was well

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

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

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

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

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

[skeetly]

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

[Bluepete]

Originally Posted by skeetly

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

Ed's a Solicitor.

Pete