Blocked drain - DIY or someone out

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Hi All,

Ive got a blocked drain at the manhole cover at the bottom of my drive. A tidal wave of water from a big bin and pressure washing down it the best I can hasnt fixed it. Southern water are going to look today, because really the block is off my property. If they tell me to do one do I

a) Get someone out, avoid agro and poo, pay money.

b) Get £20 rods from Screwfix(I dont think the angle will work, the hole is waste deep)

or

c) Buy man gadget from Karcher - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq6V6Z8D9DU

Im tempted, anyone got this? Could use them again on gutter or same problem if it happens again.

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Funnily enough the big G just brought this up.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=104...

Didnt really get resolved in this thread, but I do know its my daughters moist wipes in just the one toilet causing the issue so once fixed no more soft wipes and unlikely to have the problem again he says....

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Well Southern Water texted to say they were too busy today! Its not urgent, but the poo soup hasnt subsided from this morning so it does need sorting. If they dont sort it Ill call a local company. I could spend 50 quid on the karcher bit and it looks good, but if it doesnt do the trick, its money wasted and as someone points out a pooey mess to clean up and store, er somewhere. I like having tools, but I think this time Ill buy someones time. Im fairly confident its our fault, the wipes can stop and there should be no more issues.

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Southern Water arrived last night at just gone 10.30pm! Rather surprised to see the guy, I had been getting text updates but thought they were automated.He said he still had one more call out, hope the over time was worth it.

The man hole cover was 1ft inside my boundry, he said hed have a quick look. Got the rods out, probably 10 rods in total before it cleared. He then attached his jet to the fire hydrant and blasted it out. All totally clear. He did say technically it was private but he carried on and sorted it anyway - what a good guy, he could have told me to do one and get dynorod out.

So if I bought the Karcher attachment, I doubt it would have been long enough(they do a 15m version) which may have worked but it would have been tricky and Id have been covered in st trying to poke it down the hole. If Id bought rods, would have needed 10, more than your basic screwfix kit. Defo a job for a pro.