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Toilet problem

  • 24-12-2010 8:51am
    #1
    suitseir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭


    Toilet in en-suite and main bathroom on first floor backing up on one another. No obvious blockage. The one in the bathroom only used for first time in a while with guests staying!

    I notice when I use the sink in en-suite it fills the toilet. Yesterday, with panic over water shortage, I filled the bath with cold water but waste of time as it seeped down through plughole. Just wondering, would it have frozen and caused a back up everywhere? My downstairs toilet is perfect and I uncovered the waste manhole outside and it is clear! Typical all this happens when you have guests!

    I scooped it out of both loos but just wondering as there is no obvious sign like toilet paper etc. is there anything I can do? These toilets face north and the waste pipes and other pipes out back seem frozen..

    Would appreciate tips.


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  • #2
    suitseir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭suitseir


    I just checked the outlet pipe out at back of house and it is frozen solid so I am guessing that the sinks in both bathrooms lead into this and would that have an effect of the toilets? because when I use the sink in the en-suite the toilet fills up!

    I have poured hottish water on the pipe outside and it is only having a minor effect in melting the ice within it as it is still freezing out there!

    I hate this weather.......nothing but problems!


  • #3
    irelandspurs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭irelandspurs


    Frozen turd


  • #4
    Buford T Justice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,262 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Strange that it should freeze solid so high up though. There may already be a partial blockage that has frozen causing this.


  • #5
    suitseir
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 887 ✭✭✭suitseir


    Fingers McGee wrote: »
    Strange that it should freeze solid so high up though. There may already be a partial blockage that has frozen causing this.

    No the water in the pan did not freeze at all, it just ain't going anywhere and when I try to plunge it it affects the sink beside it because, I presume they as in shower, sink and bath all meet at some junction on the way down. It is the downpipe which the sink and bath feeds into is frozen solid so I am thinking that it must be frozen somewhere else as well.

    I can't accept that it is a blockage as this loo is never used. Maybe that is the problem during this weather and the freeze found its way up the pipe? A plumber friend told me to leave it until the thaw.

    We have a downstairs loo which is working perfectly as all pipes are on a different route.


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