R
Redyellowblue
Hello, this is my first post..
My kitchen sink is strangely and completely blocked. In an attempt to clear the blockage my friend and I (we are both not plumbers) have done the following:
1. Taken the bottom off the bottle trap and cleaned it. After reassembling the bottle trap we poured water into the outlet to see if the blockage was clear but the water backed up after pouring in scarcely enough water to even fill the trap.
2. Using a length of wire cable we poked through from the bottle trap across to the downpipe. We also removed a screw-on blank at the end of the main drain below the sink, and poked wire through approx four feet down the pipe, removing a lot of sludge. This too did not remove the blockage.
We noted the following which may or may not be relevant:
The washing machine outlet which also joins the drain behind the sink does not appear to have been affected by the current problem, because when we undid the blank there was no water rushing out of the washing machine outlet.
At some point the horizontal drain away from the sink has become detached from it's clip (which at some point broke). This has resulted in a zero or negative gradient away from the sink, creating an accumulation of water and waste gunk..some of which we've cleared. My landlords will send an engineer / plumber to re-attached this pipe next week, but so far says that the current blockage is not their responsibility.
Does any one have any ideas to where this blockage might be..?
Many thanks,
Redyellowblue
My kitchen sink is strangely and completely blocked. In an attempt to clear the blockage my friend and I (we are both not plumbers) have done the following:
1. Taken the bottom off the bottle trap and cleaned it. After reassembling the bottle trap we poured water into the outlet to see if the blockage was clear but the water backed up after pouring in scarcely enough water to even fill the trap.
2. Using a length of wire cable we poked through from the bottle trap across to the downpipe. We also removed a screw-on blank at the end of the main drain below the sink, and poked wire through approx four feet down the pipe, removing a lot of sludge. This too did not remove the blockage.
We noted the following which may or may not be relevant:
The washing machine outlet which also joins the drain behind the sink does not appear to have been affected by the current problem, because when we undid the blank there was no water rushing out of the washing machine outlet.
At some point the horizontal drain away from the sink has become detached from it's clip (which at some point broke). This has resulted in a zero or negative gradient away from the sink, creating an accumulation of water and waste gunk..some of which we've cleared. My landlords will send an engineer / plumber to re-attached this pipe next week, but so far says that the current blockage is not their responsibility.
Does any one have any ideas to where this blockage might be..?
Many thanks,
Redyellowblue
