Shore block up - help!

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Outside there are two shores/drains (not sure of technical term). One for the kitchen waste water and one for the bathroom.

They have been overspilling a little bit in the last month but yesterday I went out and the bathroom one was was brimming over and blocked with toilet waste (bog roll and the like) and the kitchen one is also overflowing. I poured in some Kitchen Devil cleaner last night and this morning poured in kettles of boiling water and they are still blocked although the bathroom one a little less than it was.

My question is this, do I have to glove up and start rooting around in the bathroom drain to see what's stuck or is it the Landlord's problem to fix? Why would the toilet waste leak into the bathroom drain rather than down it's own pipe.

Thanks.

roy rodgers

Well, I'd be getting the landlord to get dyno-rod or one of them companies out to clear up the mess. No way should you be doing it yourself unless you want to get some sort of disease.
Sewage pipes are all connected up together, bath, showers, sinks, tiolet, etc etc.. It's because the water from all of these are known as waste water and have to be treated before they go back into the enviroment either by a sepic tank or to your local sewage farm.
If your one a sepic tank system is could be just full and might needed to be emptied.

Buford T Justice

It sounds like further down the line there is a problem with a possible blockage, if its backing up in both drains. I would get the landlord to sort it if you are in a rented property

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Thanks for that. We're in town so it's town mains and sewage. I'll give him a call. I wasn't looking forward to doing it myself.

_Kaiser_

Had a similar problem in my last place..

The shore beside the downstairs bathroom was blocking and the toilet filling up as a result, requiring several goes with the rods to clear it (landlord was called in though to do this).

Ultimately it turned out to be a poorly designed junction between the bathroom waste and the washing machine waste line (an inverted T with 90 degree angles) but this was never fixed as it would've meant ripping up concrete and floors.

A bigger problem was a smell of swerage wafting to the middle-floor ensuite (the shore for this was the first on the line into the house). Traced it back to the next road over and called the council but because it's an unfished (probably never to be finished) estate they were very slow to do anything.

Moved out a while later though, and while still in the same estate, the new house has none of these problems (better finished too - different builder ya see).