Bryan Williams
Member
- Messages
- 1,232
- Location
- Manchester England
Merry Christmas.
Hoping to get some advice on this one..
Had a nasty smell lingering in the kitchen so popped the kickboard off the corner unit, smelly puddle in the corner. I was hoping it was a leak on an elbow of the sink waste pipe but soon found out that it was oozing from the boxed in toilet drain.
I ripped some hardboard away and found a load of sodden stinking cladding around the bottom of the pipe where it disappeared into the floor.
Long story short, phoned the insurance, they sent a company to jet it. The camera revealed the clay pipe had dropped , split?, half along a one and a half metre run from the manhole to the s trap.
The joint on the s had dropped and the s itself was cracked. The seal on the s to the vertical pipe has failed, so the blockage which was in the bottom of the s made any waste back up past the bad seal and out under the kitchen cupboard.
So he blasted it clear, gave me a quote for the remedial work, dig out about a foot over one and a half metres length then deeper for the s, new pipe and s bend, three liners.
It does shoot under the conservatory a bit.
Now to save a few bob couldn't I just dig it out, new pipe and s and fix it correctly to the vertical?
Does it need liners, or will a correctly fitted old school job do it?
I've fitted drainage years ago which were just cement joints.
Am I missing something?
Included a few pics.
Cheers.
Hoping to get some advice on this one..
Had a nasty smell lingering in the kitchen so popped the kickboard off the corner unit, smelly puddle in the corner. I was hoping it was a leak on an elbow of the sink waste pipe but soon found out that it was oozing from the boxed in toilet drain.
I ripped some hardboard away and found a load of sodden stinking cladding around the bottom of the pipe where it disappeared into the floor.
Long story short, phoned the insurance, they sent a company to jet it. The camera revealed the clay pipe had dropped , split?, half along a one and a half metre run from the manhole to the s trap.
The joint on the s had dropped and the s itself was cracked. The seal on the s to the vertical pipe has failed, so the blockage which was in the bottom of the s made any waste back up past the bad seal and out under the kitchen cupboard.
So he blasted it clear, gave me a quote for the remedial work, dig out about a foot over one and a half metres length then deeper for the s, new pipe and s bend, three liners.
It does shoot under the conservatory a bit.
Now to save a few bob couldn't I just dig it out, new pipe and s and fix it correctly to the vertical?
Does it need liners, or will a correctly fitted old school job do it?
I've fitted drainage years ago which were just cement joints.
Am I missing something?
Included a few pics.
Cheers.