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Blocked pipe
My bathroom basin pipe is blocked. Have removed s-bend and trap. pipe seems to be blocked just below floor. It's full of water and when I push small bendy wire pipe rod down, it hits something hard and won't budge. Any ideas?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.So the bath is draining freely? If you can get the side panel off, maybe you can try and force aforementioned 'small bendy wire' back up there the reverse way?
Blockages up basin soil-pipes don't happen too often - not much else than water goes down it.
Is it 'completely blocked' - as in water level doesn't shift over several hours? If not, let it drain out (over several days if necessary) then pour some undiluted drain cleaner down there. This stuff is dangerous - relatively concentrated suphuric acid - but it eats away at the blockage without touching either sanitaryware or UPVC pipework. But these no point unless you can get the acid close to the blockage - it will merely sit at the top of the water-filled pipe.
Blockages up basin soil-pipes don't happen too often - not much else than water goes down it.
Is it 'completely blocked' - as in water level doesn't shift over several hours? If not, let it drain out (over several days if necessary) then pour some undiluted drain cleaner down there. This stuff is dangerous - relatively concentrated suphuric acid - but it eats away at the blockage without touching either sanitaryware or UPVC pipework. But these no point unless you can get the acid close to the blockage - it will merely sit at the top of the water-filled pipe.
is the soil pipe internal or external on the wall outside can you see the basin pipe and the larger bath pipe going into the soil stack if you have push fit fittings then you may have to disconnect them to rod them out from outside if they are boxed in internally then you may have to put some drain clean one shot from local plumbers merchants into the pipe and leave that in overnight hth Tez