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Hi there,
Hoping someone can help. In our upstairs bathroom, the toilet does not appear to be flushing properly. Liquids go down fine, albeit a bit slowly... but solids on the other hand have a tendency to, ahem, hang around. The water level rises when we flush and slowly goes down again. The sink and bath both drain absolutely fine.
We have tried a plunger on the toilet and also bought one of those bendy rods to see if anything was lodged in the u-bend. It seemed to go through fine and we couldn't find any obvious obstructions. We lifted up the manhole cover which is located in the driveway outside and it was completely empty... but not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing! :S
We are contemplating taking the entire loo out because it's one of those push fit connections in to the u-bend to see if we can see any kind of other obstructions in the soil pipe.... is this a bad idea?!
Does anyone have any good ideas of things we should try before we finally bite the bullet and call out a proper plumber? Just about to move house so trying not to spend too much is all!
Hoping someone can help. In our upstairs bathroom, the toilet does not appear to be flushing properly. Liquids go down fine, albeit a bit slowly... but solids on the other hand have a tendency to, ahem, hang around. The water level rises when we flush and slowly goes down again. The sink and bath both drain absolutely fine.
We have tried a plunger on the toilet and also bought one of those bendy rods to see if anything was lodged in the u-bend. It seemed to go through fine and we couldn't find any obvious obstructions. We lifted up the manhole cover which is located in the driveway outside and it was completely empty... but not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing! :S
We are contemplating taking the entire loo out because it's one of those push fit connections in to the u-bend to see if we can see any kind of other obstructions in the soil pipe.... is this a bad idea?!
Does anyone have any good ideas of things we should try before we finally bite the bullet and call out a proper plumber? Just about to move house so trying not to spend too much is all!