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Blocked sink - Plumber required.
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Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Take the u bend apart.
pishhead
Well-known member
as a last resort try spraying a pressure washer directly into the plug.
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The blockage is well beyond the u bend as I've already had that out!
A E Evans - proper plumbers - come when they say do the job.
Rowdey
Well-known member
can you get to the next bend on the pipe run after the U-bend? It's probably there. A nice considerate plumber may have put in an access bend so you can unblock it, Failing which depending on how competent you are feeling cut the pipe a couple of inches past the bend (presuming solvent weld) scoop away with springy thing/bent coat hanger and rejoin with a straight connector.
If anyone tells you it needs jetting tell them to do one.
BensGrandad
New member
Is it not a case of following the pipes from the sink length by length as you can get at them to find where it is blocked? I wouldnt know as my DIY is useless although dad was a plumber.I learned nothing from him.
- Jan 3, 2012
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Giving advice from a position of admitted zero knowledge is a new one on me.
How about getting the chimney swept...... But I am sure the OP is not daft enough to follow my obviously silly advice.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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im wondering what the plumber will be able to do. you need more chemicals and a longer pokey thing (as the actress said...). try simple caustic soda, make it up strong and leave it longer (...). its all the plumber will do and charge £50 p/h for the privilege.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Isn't this the point in any plumbing thread where we usually all recommend John Boy's Dad and that old gumby who managed to get himself thrown out of the post-match 'disco' moans that John Boy's Dad is taking all his work?
These people are fantastic. The council also use these lot as i find out with a blocked sink recently. They suck out all the crap. I also tried plungers and chemicals. No idea if they are pricey as i got it free.
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Normal Rob
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Have you tried taking apart the plumbing putside of the house? (if you can get to it). My bathroom sink was blocked solid but i was able to fix it by taking apart the plumbing tubes that ran through the bathroom wall to the outside of the house and scraping the gunk/wet wipes etc out of them.
BensGrandad
New member
I wasnt giving advice but asking a question. When we had a blocked urinal or whatever we used One Stop or One Step whatever it was called from a plumbers merchants, expensive but very good. It always worked too unblock the pipes.