Caustic soda situation

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well I will tell you my story, I am female and live alone 2 months ago before going to bed I did the usual thing peed obviously loo and flushed, but the flushing would not stop so I tried wiggling the button, still flushing and filling toilet, nightmare what do ya do when the stopcock wouldn't work it was a nightmare, rang a good friend who needed to smash the boxing and tie up ball until a could get plumber, who couldn't get the part needed so had to get new toilet, however the blockage was from outside so I had to get water company to unblock the drains, in total I paid over £300 to get that work done, but hey two month later I have another blocked loo, there is only me living here and I know what goes down my loo which isn't much as I'm at work all day, so what do I do this time well I now have insurance from home serve at a low low cost of 50p per month depending on the call outs, so I tackled it myself, after all they are just pipes, I plunged with different things, I bleached, then I flushed all my pipes and took the screw cap from my stack because there I was unsure which man hole was in fact mine as the one in my front garden is not, I learnt this from water company 2 months ago. so like I said took off the cap from stack it was chocked to top so I pocked and pushed a high power hose down and caustic soda, it then went about 1 metre down into earth pushing all the gunge out, I realised that next door pipe does not have a stack like mine, as that pipe had no cap it just went straight into the ground, so I asked the neighbour if he would be so kind and lift his man hole to see if it was blocked, he reluctantly did and it was blocked to the rim, well he rents the house so he said he would contact the land lord to unblock the drains, I am not sure as yet if he has done that but, my toilet is now flushing fine and I am hoping it will stay that way for ever.

 

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well I will tell you my story, I am female and live alone 2 months ago before going to bed I did the usual thing peed obviously loo and flushed, but the flushing would not stop so I tried wiggling the button, still flushing and filling toilet, nightmare what do ya do when the stopcock wouldn't work it was a nightmare, rang a good friend who needed to smash the boxing and tie up ball until a could get plumber, who couldn't get the part needed so had to get new toilet, however the blockage was from outside so I had to get water company to unblock the drains, in total I paid over £300 to get that work done, but hey two month later I have another blocked loo, there is only me living here and I know what goes down my loo which isn't much as I'm at work all day, so what do I do this time well I now have insurance from home serve at a low low cost of 50p per month depending on the call outs, so I tackled it myself, after all they are just pipes, I plunged with different things, I bleached, then I flushed all my pipes and took the screw cap from my stack because there I was unsure which man hole was in fact mine as the one in my front garden is not, I learnt this from water company 2 months ago. so like I said took off the cap from stack it was chocked to top so I pocked and pushed a high power hose down and caustic soda, it then went about 1 metre down into earth pushing all the gunge out, I realised that next door pipe does not have a stack like mine, as that pipe had no cap it just went straight into the ground, so I asked the neighbour if he would be so kind and lift his man hole to see if it was blocked, he reluctantly did and it was blocked to the rim, well he rents the house so he said he would contact the land lord to unblock the drains, I am not sure as yet if he has done that but, my toilet is now flushing fine and I am hoping it will stay that way for ever.

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