Drain repair

[Rollin]

I've had a blocked drain and overflowing gulley for the past few months.
I bought a jetter for the pressure washer but couldn't get through blockage.
I've dug up the joint and it's cracked. I've removed roots that wer growing in and drain is now clear.
How do I repair this?
I could cut back pipe on left and get an adaptor? At some point the drive will be coming up where this drain is, so I'm open to bodging it till then if that's an option. Would then get the whole length of pipe replaced when the drive is dug up.

[allegro]

I've done a similar repair on two cracked cast iron down pipes at a mates place. we had a roll of some blow torch flashing handy and gave it a try. It's still there, bone dry 3 years laters

[Alickadoo]

It's only surface water, so a small leak won't matter. You could bodge it up with a half section of drain pipe (other materials are available) and then cover it all up with asphalt/tarmac.

[Rough101]

If you can get your hand in from the gulley, ram it full of newspaper and then apply sand and cement to the damaged bit, remove paper when it’s cured

[wolfracesonic]

Cut back the pipe to where it’s not cracked and fit one of these…


…they come in different sizes to connect the same or different diameter pipes.
Scrap the glazed gulley and connect up one of these…


You should be able to re-use both when alterations take place. You’ll probably have to buy some additional pipe/ bends to get every thing to sit at the right level.

[JoshSm]

If you've still got all the bits I'd stick it back together with some Gorilla Glue or similar. It won't care that it's wet and it'll hold it together happily for years.

[E-bmw]

JoshSm said:

If you've still got all the bits I'd stick it back together with some Gorilla Glue or similar. It won't care that it's wet and it'll hold it together happily for years.

This, but not gorilla glue.

CT1 or similar, just keep it dry while it goes off & it will outlast your tenure at the house.

[Beetnik]

In a similar vein and in a very similar situation, I cut the top and bottom off a baked bean can, cut it down the seam, bent it to fit around the broken bit of pipe and put a decent amount of mortar over it. Lived there for years afterwards and never had a problem with it.

Ditto an exhaust pipe only using copper wire in place of mortar - although it lasted a while it wasn't going to make it through the MoT!

Useful things, baked bean cans...

Edited by Beetnik on Thursday 2nd July 19:01

[Rollin]

Think I might expose more pipe and possibly replace the gully whilst it's dug up. The crack you can see extends to the base of the pipe so I think I'll need to remove the fractured bit. Unfortunately the pipe starts to curve downwards soon after the fracture so not sure a flexible connector will work.

[Jap90s]

The usual "site fix" is put a plastic bag over it and throw some cement, concrete, tarmac etc on top of it - will last for years

[M138]

Rollin said:

At some point the drive will be coming up where this drain is, so I'm open to bodging it till then if that's an option. Would then get the whole length of pipe replaced when the drive is dug up.

Gaffa tape for a temporary bodge.