Blocked drain - Pros or Karcher pressure washer attachment?
Discussion
Drain is blocked (noticed it after spotting a slow flush on the downstairs loo) - Checked the manhole on the drive and the water is backed up. Tried rodding it myself but didnt do anything. Problem seems to be the kids flushing wetwipes which have just built up. The drain has a very straight run from our house, far more than my 10m rods will go but at a gentle drop so the wetwipes just build up without causing a giant block as such...and make the water back up.
Is it worth getting the 15m karcher drain thingy? Or should i get the pros in with something much longer?
Also - how do drains work....how long is it the size of the little pipe in the drive before it drops into a much bigger mains pipe.....how many houses normally?
Is it worth getting the 15m karcher drain thingy? Or should i get the pros in with something much longer?
Also - how do drains work....how long is it the size of the little pipe in the drive before it drops into a much bigger mains pipe.....how many houses normally?
otherman said:
In most houses the property drain goes straight to the public sewer in the middle of the road, but there's no fixed rule, its whatever the builder did. Sometimes they pick up a couple of houses, and there was a nasty fashion in the 60s and early 70s for running them right down the gardens and and only dropping into the public at the end (to avoid having to get them adopted).
If your house is 1936 or earlier (public health act) and the drain serves more than one property (eg if you're neighbours drain joins it) then its owned by the Water Company. This will be the case for any age of property from October link
Any length of drain serving just your property is your problem, and I'd look for drainage services on yell and find someone local. Dynorod type services are notorious for charging for work that didn't really need doing.
I may hang in there till Oct 1st!If your house is 1936 or earlier (public health act) and the drain serves more than one property (eg if you're neighbours drain joins it) then its owned by the Water Company. This will be the case for any age of property from October link
Any length of drain serving just your property is your problem, and I'd look for drainage services on yell and find someone local. Dynorod type services are notorious for charging for work that didn't really need doing.
The drain on my drive is a T - so it has the inlet from my house and water flows to it from neigbour 1 and then it flows off to neighbour 2 - so it seems from oct 1st I only have to worry about the T to my house (just a few m's worth)
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