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Broken drains

  • 22-08-2015 10:48am
    #1
    gutteruu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭


    My downstairs toilet is blocking up as the pipes in the footpath outside are broken. I currently use rods to unblock them but I'm getting sick of this as there was $hit all over the garden today and small kids around.

    Anyone used or know an alternative to digging up all my paths? Been looking at the Maserators but know nothing about them. Debating drinking more cranberry juice but there has to be an easier way :eek:.


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  • #2
    jacksie66
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  • #3
    gutteruu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭gutteruu


    jacksie66 wrote: »
    If your drains are broken they need to be dug up and replaced. No way around it..

    The brake isn't completely broken. Its just a lip in the pipe that catches the 'stuff'. Was hoping the maserator might make it liquid enough to pass the brake or if not I could tap into drain after the brake. If the weather wasn't so bad I'd happily dig them up but I'm looking for any other way at this point.


  • #4
    slimjimmc
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    Surely it'd be cheaper to pay someone to repair the sewer pipe than it would be to buy a macerator (cheapest ones start at €300) and pay an electrician to wire and certify the power supply, and tiling/redecoration costs for chased walls.
    It also means you won't keep putting the proper job on the long finger.


  • #5
    antoinolachtnai
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    Just dig it up and fix it. It's not that complicated. There are a lot of complications with macerators.


  • #6
    jacksie66
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  • #7
    gutteruu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭gutteruu


    Fair enough. Didn't think they were so pricey. I'll get the sledge out. Thanks


  • #8
    Lu Tze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭Lu Tze


    gutteruu wrote: »
    The brake isn't completely broken. Its just a lip in the pipe that catches the 'stuff'. Was hoping the maserator might make it liquid enough to pass the brake or if not I could tap into drain after the brake. If the weather wasn't so bad I'd happily dig them up but I'm looking for any other way at this point.

    How do you know the condition of the break? Did you out a camera down?


  • #9
    gutteruu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭gutteruu


    Lu Tze wrote: »
    How do you know the condition of the break? Did you out a camera down?

    I have a 4 inch rubber flap on top of sewer rods and it just gets caught a bit but goes through.


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