sometimes it can be the drain itself being damaged... but that's extreme.. tree's etc. (hopefully it's the water boards bit, not your section of it )
We had a load of trouble last year with the drains blocking and the manhole on the drive letting out toilet fish. The water board came out, stuck a camera down it and said that there were tree roots in the pipe but because it was on our drive, it was our problem. They couldn't leave quickly enough.
Fortunately, we were having some work done on the house so our man in the digger took the whole lot up which made it pretty clear that the drain went out at 90 degrees to where the water board thought it went. Impressive.
They came back next day and took an hour with a rather monstrous big black hose pipe they called The Warthog and demolished the tree roots from inside the pipe. Phew.
Our handyman at work uses a DIY plunger. Get a mop, put its head in a black back and tie it off. Now use that as a plunger. Its suprisingly effective and the long mop handle means you can put your whole body into it so there's a lot more force than using a regular one handed plunger. You're looking for suction on the upstroke rather than any movement on the downstroke. That ought to pull whatever is stuck back up the pipe a bit to let the water out and hopefully break up whatever solid is down there.
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We had a load of trouble last year with the drains blocking and the manhole on the drive letting out toilet fish. The water board came out, stuck a camera down it and said that there were tree roots in the pipe but because it was on our drive, it was our problem. They couldn't leave quickly enough.
Fortunately, we were having some work done on the house so our man in the digger took the whole lot up which made it pretty clear that the drain went out at 90 degrees to where the water board thought it went. Impressive.
They came back next day and took an hour with a rather monstrous big black hose pipe they called The Warthog and demolished the tree roots from inside the pipe. Phew.
I think that is something we all aspire to! :razz: