Wish I had read this thread before this morning!

Noticed downstairs loo was not flushing properply. I know my property
is the start of the drain, lifted the manhole cover and was greeted by
a sea of turds; went next door and with the help of the neigbour
lifted his drain cover, same result. three further houses down found a
clear drain. Got a lenght of overflow pipe and sucessfully pushed the
blockage further down stream :-( Neighbour and myself now tired dirty
and fed up, then another neighbour turned up and said that he got the
local water company in to the clear the last blockage and it was free
as it was a public sewer; Our houses are pre-1937 and reading the
above thread, the blockage should be removed for free.

Only puked up once, nice way to spend a Saturday, I was supposed to be
looking at why the inside my car windscreen was frosting up, instead
spent it looking at hundreds of turds :-(

Brian