Thread: Blocked storm water drain!

Pickles long story short
We have a tonne of family staying and blocked up the poo line from house and cottage to our 4 stage sewer system.
Was day before Christmas, before calling a plumber mucked around a little trying to clear the blockage.

Ended up using a 25m length of 1.25” irrigation poly pipe with a short length of 3/4” garden hose as a leader, managed to put hose in at ORG port and punch whatever the blockage was down into the sediment tank - all fixed and flowing again as it should.

If you don’t have any obvious tree root systems near pipe is it possible the blockage is just gutter trash and worth trying to push a hose down from access point / surface drain in the first instance?

Originally Posted by roverrescue

Pickles long story short
We have a tonne of family staying and blocked up the poo line from house and cottage to our 4 stage sewer system.
Was day before Christmas, before calling a plumber mucked around a little trying to clear the blockage.

Ended up using a 25m length of 1.25” irrigation poly pipe with a short length of 3/4” garden hose as a leader, managed to put hose in at ORG port and punch whatever the blockage was down into the sediment tank - all fixed and flowing again as it should.

If you don’t have any obvious tree root systems near pipe is it possible the blockage is just gutter trash and worth trying to push a hose down from access point / surface drain in the first instance?

I did think of that, but I haven't really got an access point,...all the downpipes are set into concrete where they enter a pipe at ground level.
So how the plumber will gain entry I don't know!
Pickles.

Could you cut the Down pipe nearest blockage, 90 or 100mm slip joiners and some primer glue would cost less than $20?
Cut pipe, remove from gutter
Use that for access?

S

Had a bloke here with a trailer mounted bit of HP kit.

He told me, by using the right jet the stream is powerful enough to cut tree roots & was what they mainly used it for. Here, he used it to clear the bathroom shower floor waste of solidified chippings & old grout the slack bastard of of a Tiler/Plumber left behind after not sealing it when removing the old tiles.

*&$@*%#!( The old adage of "If you want to **** something up, give it to a Plumber to do" seems to hold true.


Oh yes, it ain't an inexpensive job to do so be prepared if you go this way.

You could always hire a "snake" from a hire place and DIY.
I had roots blocking my sewer and did that successfully.
Next day I noticed that the main sewer was leaking into the gutter so called Sydney water and they cleaned it out.

Beware the native grasses that get the beige long flower thing or the small purple flowers. Their roots go forever and they loooove sewer pipes.

I also had a blockage in my stormwater drain, used the snake and out came a mangled tennis ball which had again caught up on roots. Any Kids?
You can go from the curb with a snake and just measure to know when you are near the downpipe.
Regards Philip A

I have the same problem. I reckon there stormwater flows out to a "low" point in our yard somewhere .... and the pipe is buried. I'd love to clear it, but how on earth would I find it!

seeya
shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I have the same problem. I reckon there stormwater flows out to a "low" point in our yard somewhere .... and the pipe is buried. I'd love to clear it, but how on earth would I find it!

seeya
shane L.

I've read that some of the drain "experts" use X Rays to "locate" pipes such as you mention,..I'm not exactly sure where mine are either!
Pickles.

Your house drain will usually discharge into a council asset drain, depending where you live this maybe an open swale in rural areas or in suburbs it will either discharge through the kerb or directly into a drain that will be around the kerb alignment.
Look for storm water pits and inspection openings, you may have better luck sticking the hose up the outlet rather than the inlet.