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I've been (partially) dealing with a blocked drain for someone today - it's all seemed quite odd.
The blockage is in the wastepipe from a sink - it can be located to a 15' foot section of 40mm waste-pipe, largely hidden from view and with those hideous glued elbows, two at one end and three at the other, so access for rodding is problematic.
One of these Monument 12' "unblockers " was available and it has been run through to its full length - twice - from each end - but without pulling out much debris, mostly just dislodging a bit of 'sand'.
I suspect we're dealing with a conglomerate of cooled grease and soil debris from cleaning vegetables - solid enough to block the flow from a 2' head, but too weak for the 'rod' to pull or push from its location.
We managed to create a hole through it that would allow the sink to drain and a sinkful of hot water did seem to then erode the hole a bit - time will tell - it will either get worse or better...
A (horrible) future possibility is to cut off one of the glued elbows and fit a swept-tee there - for a rodding point, but it's in a very inaccessible location.
The blockage is in the wastepipe from a sink - it can be located to a 15' foot section of 40mm waste-pipe, largely hidden from view and with those hideous glued elbows, two at one end and three at the other, so access for rodding is problematic.
One of these Monument 12' "unblockers " was available and it has been run through to its full length - twice - from each end - but without pulling out much debris, mostly just dislodging a bit of 'sand'.
I suspect we're dealing with a conglomerate of cooled grease and soil debris from cleaning vegetables - solid enough to block the flow from a 2' head, but too weak for the 'rod' to pull or push from its location.
We managed to create a hole through it that would allow the sink to drain and a sinkful of hot water did seem to then erode the hole a bit - time will tell - it will either get worse or better...
A (horrible) future possibility is to cut off one of the glued elbows and fit a swept-tee there - for a rodding point, but it's in a very inaccessible location.