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| SYSTEM-J |
Okay, I'll spare you the unnecessary details. I'm moving out of my student house this week, but the toilet is blocked and the sink has barely been draining for a few days now. Usually the sink can be cleared by cleaning the plug hole with q tips, but since we're moving out at the end of the week, all cleaning has been delayed until then.
The toilet hasn't shown any signs of up-fuckery before it blocked completely today. When flushed, the water went nowhere and and piss actually came up the sink.
If just one of them were blocked I'd know what to do, but the fact both of them are ed makes me think the blockage is somewhere in the piping of the house, which will probably require a plumber we can't really afford.
Someone on TA has to know enough about plumbing to advise me on a course of action that isn't "don't use the bathroom for five days". |
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| Ian |
buy a plunger from poundland or something, or goto a good diy store or screwfix or something, buy some really strong industrial strength stuff.
Aside from that. get a drain unblocker coil thing, feed it down the toilet and if the blockage is from paper or something you can pierce it, allowing the water to flow. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
We've tried the chemical method on the sink, which worked reasonably well. The sink now drains, but still pretty slowly. I suppose the next thing to do is to try the same on the toilet.
My main worry is that the blockage is more general. I want to have a shower, but would water draining from the bath meet this blockage and cause to flood up all over the bathroom? |
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| Capitalizt |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
We've tried the chemical method on the sink, which worked reasonably well. The sink now drains, but still pretty slowly. I suppose the next thing to do is to try the same on the toilet.
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Try more chemicals..Get a few bottles of the most powerful stuff you can find and use them.. If it worked a little before, chances are it will help if you do it again. After doing that, rinse/flush a few times then pour a full gallon of bleach down the toilet/sink to wash everything down. |
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| Ian |
| probably. it depends how the piping is routed. If there's one outpipe from the bathroom and everything else seems to lead to the same way, it probably does. |
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| Ian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Capitalizt
Try more chemicals..Get a few bottles of the most powerful stuff you can find and use them.. If it worked a little before, chances are it will help if you do it again. You might try a full gallon of bleach too afterward to wash it all down. |
don't mix . the fumes will smell like the taxi driver who you needed to roll the window down in freezing temperatures! |
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| nchs09 |
| leave the toilet backed up for the next fool who moves there...... |
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| Capitalizt |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ian
don't mix . the fumes will smell like the taxi driver who you needed to roll the window down in freezing temperatures! |
Yeah DONT MIX THEM..lol. I mixed some Tilex spray with bleach one time, hoping to make it stronger and it started bubbling up in some crazy chemical reaction. I only took one breath of it and the fumes burned my lungs badly..I thought I was gonna die.
Only use one product at a time, let it soak in, then flush with water. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
The sink has its own outflow through the wall where it joins the guttering pipe down and outside. That's what makes its coordinated up-fuckery with the toilet so baffling and scary.
It's worth noting that this is an old Victorian house and two centuries of redesigns have left it with craziness everywhere. There are wires that go all of the house and then just terminate, for example. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by nchs09
leave the toilet backed up for the next fool who moves there...... |
There's a reason I wanted advice that wasn't "just leave it and move out". Firstly, how the are we supposed to live for a week with no bathroom? Secondly, there's a £200 deposit per-person, and there are four of us. That's £800 left floating in the drain if we don't fix it. |
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| Capitalizt |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
There's a reason I wanted advice that wasn't "just leave it and move out". Firstly, how the are we supposed to live for a week with no bathroom? Secondly, there's a £200 deposit per-person, and there are four of us. That's £800 left floating in the drain if we don't fix it. |
A plumber shouldn't even cost half that. If you can't fix it just hire someone and you will still come out better than if you did nothing. Just consider it a partial loss of your deposit. |
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| Rose |
| Call Joe the Plumber. |
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