Bloked pipe

kellyj77

My mum was having issues with a leak in her bathroom. From looking around i noticed that when a bath is run the water goes down the pipe at the back of the bath but slowly rises back up. There appears to be a leak down there which is allowing the water to filter through only slowly.

i tried to put a rod down there and a piece of what looks like polystyrene foam rose to the top. She had work done and i reckon some expandable polystyrene foam has fallen down.

I googled how to dissolve this type of material and have poured acetone and petrol down but it doesnt seem to have helped.

Anyone any other ideas hows to dislodge it?

kellyj77

I just read online caustic soda could be good?

sullzz

kellyj77 wrote: »

I googled how to dissolve this type of material and have poured acetone and petrol down

Fair play to you pouring petrol down the drain , I'm sure the environmentalists would love you :rolleyes:

Be careful with caustic soda , if used wrong it can cause bigger issues , especially if poured down on top of petrol :eek:

scudo2

sullzz wrote: »

Fair play to you pouring petrol down the drain , I'm sure the environmentalists would love you :rolleyes:

Be careful with caustic soda , if used wrong it can cause bigger issues , especially if poured down on top of petrol :eek:

You might try trowing down a match also, at least it will burn out the petrol and might teach you a lesson if you also watch it burn.
Better that, rather than contamanating the waterways by your actions that sometimes cause large fishkills.

Ask EPA for more advice and give them your name + details.

Tokyo

kellyj77 wrote: »

I googled how to dissolve this type of material and have poured acetone and petrol down but it doesnt seem to have helped.

Anyone any other ideas hows to dislodge it?

Can you take off the panel and get at the underneath of the bath? And disconnect the trap? Sounds like your blockage is sitting there. If not, rod the blockage out from the outside of the house?? Pouring petrol down the drain isn't going to magically dissolve the styrofoam, it just turns it into a sticky, goo-y, napalm-y mess halfway down the pipe.

I remember seeing one of these reality programmes about A&E in Jamaica where they showed an old fella coming in with badly burnt hands and face due to pouring petrol down a drain, I had a giggle:pac:(natural selection;))because who puts petrol down a drain, but obviously it's more common than I thought, strangely.

Egass13

I googled how to dissolve this type of material and have poured acetone and petrol down but it doesnt seem to have helped.


This has to be a wind up?

Tokyo

Egass13 wrote: »

I googled how to dissolve this type of material and have poured acetone and petrol down but it doesnt seem to have helped.


This has to be a wind up?

No, it's been my experience that some people out there are actually that... whats the word I'm looking for...

mike_ie

mike_ie wrote: »

No, it's been my experience that some people out there are actually that... whats the word I'm looking for...

My favourite was a enlightened gentleman who wanted 100% efficiency from his gas fire.

He was found unconscious in the front room after he disconnected the gas supply to the fire connected a rubber hose, ran it to the middle of the room, used bricks to prop it up, turned on the gas and lit it:D

Tokyo

well it certainly heated the room quickly, so he was right on that score...

Egass13

gary71 wrote: »

My favourite was a enlightened gentleman who wanted 100% efficiency from his gas fire.

He was found unconscious in the front room after he disconnected the gas supply to the fire connected a rubber hose, ran it to the middle of the room, used bricks to prop it up, turned on the gas and lit it:D

That's unbelievable . I had one in Kildare where they had a flexi-duct running from the flue to under the decking , to keep them warm !


All sorts out there. And I won't get started on the one with the make shift gym built on the side of the house with the solo flue bang in the middle of it !

Dtp1979

gary71 wrote: »

My favourite was a enlightened gentleman who wanted 100% efficiency from his gas fire.

He was found unconscious in the front room after he disconnected the gas supply to the fire connected a rubber hose, ran it to the middle of the room, used bricks to prop it up, turned on the gas and lit it:D

That's one way of describing a flueless fire!!

scudo2

gary71 wrote: »

My favourite was a enlightened gentleman who wanted 100% efficiency from his gas fire.

He was found unconscious in the front room after he disconnected the gas supply to the fire connected a rubber hose, ran it to the middle of the room, used bricks to prop it up, turned on the gas and lit it:D

Faulty oxygen depleation valve.

Dtp1979

scudo2 wrote: »

Faulty oxygen depleation valve.

Faulty brain I'd say

scudo2

Dtp1979 wrote: »

Faulty brain I'd say

Faulty oxygen depleation valve on supply to brain. !!