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TimW

On 20/09/17 14:18, wrote:
On 20/09/2017 10:30, GB wrote:
On 20/09/2017 08:57, John Rumm wrote:
On 20/09/2017 00:50, wrote:

Some numpty (not me) seems to have dropped a long length of hardwood
down one of the downpipes ....

.... looking at ways of getting the wood out via the same route
it went in.

I was thinking of a drain clearing rod pushed in from below...

.. too stiff to go round the bend in the shoe.
..plastic 22, 15 and 10mm pipe up - the 22 and 15 are
too stiff, the 10 is too small and also gets snagged on the joints.

I can work a plastic garden hose up mine to stir up any gunge in the
hoppers.

TW