Downstairs toilet and back drain blocked

Monkeynut · 21 Jul 2008 at 18:05

MiNxYyY said:
Night vision perhaps

Nahhh, this is an overclocking forum, case fan LEDs!

milkinc13 · 21 Jul 2008 at 19:05

nuke from orbit, call plumber or get some plumbing rods for future if it happened then you can unblock it with no cost

Cupra · 21 Jul 2008 at 19:21

dyno rod has got to be the best bet.

eXor · 21 Jul 2008 at 19:39

Eat more veg.

badbob · 27 Jul 2008 at 19:25

Done, but the thread snapped on a rod, and now two rods are somewhere in the drain. :-/ Hardly any torsional force was used, just crap drain set.

Ben M · 27 Jul 2008 at 19:27

nuke the rods from orbit to get them out of the drain..

Beans on toast Dave · 27 Jul 2008 at 19:27

wont the broken rod make the drain block again?

Ben M · 27 Jul 2008 at 19:28

challengedavid said:
wont the broken rod make the drain block again?

Possibly. this is why he should nuke it from orbit.

badbob · 27 Jul 2008 at 19:29

challengedavid said:
wont the broken rod make the drain block again?

Main drain is probably 5/6" so a 2cm wide rod shouldn't effect it too much.

Ben M · 27 Jul 2008 at 19:31

badbob said:
Main drain is probably 5/6" so a 2cm wide rod shouldn't effect it too much.

yeah, but bits of crap etc will get stuck on it.

badbob · 27 Jul 2008 at 19:33

Not much we can do.

Hedge · 27 Jul 2008 at 20:06

Ive used rods a number of times, and put quite a lot of force on them, and i aint had one snap on me yet. You sure you didnt just twist it anti clockwise at some point and unscrew a rod?

badbob · 27 Jul 2008 at 20:08

Nope, the thread end is snapped off, instead of a thread end, it has a little cone of snaped metal.

Biohazard · 27 Jul 2008 at 20:10

you screwed it too hard son?

Hedge · 27 Jul 2008 at 20:11

Nightmare lol.

is the end rod with the rubber disk on it missing?

badbob · 27 Jul 2008 at 20:23

No thank god, just used the rod only, didn't want to use the attachments in case it came loose, lucky we didn't! Just pushed 8 rods, unblocked. When pulled back then counted and found minus 2 :-(

then looking at the end one snapped off

Hades · 27 Jul 2008 at 20:27

That's gonna cause a blockage again soon then

Biohazard · 27 Jul 2008 at 20:32

^ yup.

call out the professionals, they will love to poke out your crap.

badbob · 27 Jul 2008 at 20:32

Should be alright for a year years, and by that won't be our problem (moved house probably) I guess someone could use a grabbler/camera rod to try and grab the broken off rod?

mejinks · 27 Jul 2008 at 22:27

We had this appen years ago when some numpty was flushing nappies down the toilet from higher up the hill. Our drainage system meant that all the houses in a straight line were connected so if one sent something down and it got blocked, it would block in someone elses drain. We had a veritable fountain forcing the "airtight cover" open one year, so dad managed to clear it and cemented it closed forever. The next street down wasn't so lucky....