Jet wash drain cleaning attachment - any good?
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Has anyone used one of the above - attaches to a jet washer and apparently will find its own way along drains by firing jets backwards?
Recently needed to get into the base of a single trap siphonic toilet that is on the ground floor. No chance from the pan but from the gulley it was 1M straight then 90 degrees to vertical for 1M then 90 degrees into the toilet connector. Wondered if this would work?
Pan looks like this: http://tinyurl.com/m4sfz4 (scroll down a touch and it's the one on the left).
Recently needed to get into the base of a single trap siphonic toilet that is on the ground floor. No chance from the pan but from the gulley it was 1M straight then 90 degrees to vertical for 1M then 90 degrees into the toilet connector. Wondered if this would work?
Pan looks like this: http://tinyurl.com/m4sfz4 (scroll down a touch and it's the one on the left).
Edited by Deva Link on Thursday 3rd September 10:50
The basic system is what anyone who clears drains uses, along with rods. Whether it'll do the 90 degree turn or not I can't say, nor whether or not your jet washer would be powerful enough. And if it gets stuck (which does happen sometimes) you're fooked.
Edited by tenohfive on Thursday 3rd September 18:19
tenohfive said:
The basic system is what anyone who clears drains uses, along with rods. Whether it'll do the 90 degree turn or not I can't say, nor whether or not your jet washer would be powerful enough. And if it gets stuck (which does happen sometimes) you're fooked.
I was concerned about that although at the end of the day the pan was taken out so we wouldn't have been any worse off if had got stuck.Turned out the old lady occupant had dropped a small wedge shaped glass into the toilet sometime in the recent past (probably had tablets in and she was chucking them away
). The glass had mostly broken but the base had wedged where the toilet waste narrows right under the "entry" point. It was draining slowly but couldn't set up its siphonic action, with obvious results. Yuk!Once we saw what had happened I wondered if it could have been removed somehow without taking the toilet out (a huge job, took 2 guys 6 hrs, but they miraculously didn't break it).
It's not beyond the realms of possibility that the same thing will happen again, so I'd like to develop a solution.
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