{rant begins}
apologies in advance - so peed off with muppets right now!
Been sorting a downstairs cloakroom in the house - knew there used to be an outside WC nearby; found the right spot, and took up the tile directly above it! WOW, my luck is in.....
Aqua-panelled the room, set the WHB up, done doorframe, bi-fold door etc. Everything going well.
So, 6.30 tonight - " I`m going to open the drain up, and pop the "multiquik" 4" in - we`ll have a working loo in a bit..........."
The original 4" clay glaze had been sealed off with a rubber bung. Rubber gauntlets and mask out - remove bung, ready to fit appropriate pan connector.
" WTF"!!!!!
Some muppet had put a plastic bag down the pipe, and loaded it up with floor tile adhesive, to make a "belt & braces" type bung, I suppose.
Problem is, the plastic has rotted to nothing. I touch the lump of adhesive, and it slides about 300mm down the pipe, where it sticks.
"Great", I think - there`s a bend it won`t go around - drill a hole in it, and pull it back up. Happy dayz
Except - the problem is there isn`t a soddin bend there - and it falls another 6" (after I make a 10mm hole in it!)
The vertical 4" pipe gives out onto the main drain from up the road - so all the neighbours` poo & stuff comes down there. and floating on top....? Yup! 5H1T isn`t the word to use at the time!!!!!!!!!
It can`t stay there - so, I`m laying on the floor, whole arm down this 4" pipe, with my fingertips trying to rotate the plug of tile cement so that I can lift it out......when a tide comes along and washes it out of reach (luckily that tide didn`t have lumps.......they came later )
Now - because I`m the last house in the row, I`ve a manhole about 4M away, which curves the main drain out to the street. So we`ll lift that, and try to "flush" this lump out.
Not happening!!!!!
Eventually got my "super rods" (through a piece of hose pipe!) down 600mm, round a 90 degree bend, past the lump, and out the manhole. Connect a 3" dia washer to the end of the rods ( I lurve self-amalgamating tape :x ), and pull it all through at 11.15!!!!!!!!!
{rant ends}
I`ve STILL got a garden full of tools, from the day`s labours to be cleaned up; and I REALLY need a shower (and some rum) ; but the F`in thing is done, without calling dynorod!!!!!
SO.....if I`m a bit taciturn or short tonight - sorry, but I feel like carp, too!
KME
p.s. The loo works, though
apologies in advance - so peed off with muppets right now!
Been sorting a downstairs cloakroom in the house - knew there used to be an outside WC nearby; found the right spot, and took up the tile directly above it! WOW, my luck is in.....
Aqua-panelled the room, set the WHB up, done doorframe, bi-fold door etc. Everything going well.
So, 6.30 tonight - " I`m going to open the drain up, and pop the "multiquik" 4" in - we`ll have a working loo in a bit..........."
The original 4" clay glaze had been sealed off with a rubber bung. Rubber gauntlets and mask out - remove bung, ready to fit appropriate pan connector.
" WTF"!!!!!
Some muppet had put a plastic bag down the pipe, and loaded it up with floor tile adhesive, to make a "belt & braces" type bung, I suppose.
Problem is, the plastic has rotted to nothing. I touch the lump of adhesive, and it slides about 300mm down the pipe, where it sticks.
"Great", I think - there`s a bend it won`t go around - drill a hole in it, and pull it back up. Happy dayz
Except - the problem is there isn`t a soddin bend there - and it falls another 6" (after I make a 10mm hole in it!)
The vertical 4" pipe gives out onto the main drain from up the road - so all the neighbours` poo & stuff comes down there. and floating on top....? Yup! 5H1T isn`t the word to use at the time!!!!!!!!!
It can`t stay there - so, I`m laying on the floor, whole arm down this 4" pipe, with my fingertips trying to rotate the plug of tile cement so that I can lift it out......when a tide comes along and washes it out of reach (luckily that tide didn`t have lumps.......they came later
)Now - because I`m the last house in the row, I`ve a manhole about 4M away, which curves the main drain out to the street. So we`ll lift that, and try to "flush" this lump out.
Not happening!!!!!
Eventually got my "super rods" (through a piece of hose pipe!) down 600mm, round a 90 degree bend, past the lump, and out the manhole. Connect a 3" dia washer to the end of the rods ( I lurve self-amalgamating tape :x ), and pull it all through at 11.15!!!!!!!!!
{rant ends}
I`ve STILL got a garden full of tools, from the day`s labours to be cleaned up; and I REALLY need a shower (and some rum) ; but the F`in thing is done, without calling dynorod!!!!!
SO.....if I`m a bit taciturn or short tonight - sorry, but I feel like carp, too!
KME
p.s. The loo works, though
