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Why is it that the drains always block in the middle of the night? Or to
be accurate, why is it that I always make the discovery that they are
blocked in the middle of the night? This time it was odd because it was
a bog that has never, in 45 years, blocked before.
I'm temperamentally unable to put jobs off until the next day, so I
filled three mop buckets with hot water and tipped it down the three
bogs. Each bog has a separate pipe to the first inspection cover in the
yard. Two swallowed it quite well but the bog that appeared to be
blocked would only take it slowly. So I repeated the treatment with that
bog and it definitely helped. But I put my boots, dressing gown, and a
cap lamp on and went out to the yard. The outlet to the next inspection
cover was clear. The pipe from the blocked bog was dribbling quite well
but there was obviously a reservoir of liquids somewhere along its
length. The drain rods are in the shed but the hose is nearby, so I
rammed as much hose up the pipe as I could, felt the bend, fiddled it
round the bend and guessed it was up the stack as far as the blocked
bog. Turned the water on and for a long time nothing happened except a
gurgling. Nipped in to check the bog wasn't overflowing. Withdrew the
pipe a bit at a time, pushing it in a bit and pulling it out a bit.
Suddenly an object appeared. It was quite large. I lifted it out and
continued. A lot of muck came down; an awful lot. I went in and tipped a
mop bucket full of water down the relevant bog. It swallowed it quickly
and gracefully. Back in the yard I sprayed water on the mystery object.
Surprisingly I recognised it. It was a My Little Pony. One of my
daughters was, as a small child, very keen on My Little Pony. She is now
43.

Bill

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 04:24:27 +0100, williamwright wrote:

Why is it that the drains always block in the middle of the night? Or to
be accurate, why is it that I always make the discovery that they are
blocked in the middle of the night? This time it was odd because it was
a bog that has never, in 45 years, blocked before.
I'm temperamentally unable to put jobs off until the next day, so I
filled three mop buckets with hot water and tipped it down the three
bogs. Each bog has a separate pipe to the first inspection cover in the
yard. Two swallowed it quite well but the bog that appeared to be
blocked would only take it slowly. So I repeated the treatment with that
bog and it definitely helped. But I put my boots, dressing gown, and a
cap lamp on and went out to the yard. The outlet to the next inspection
cover was clear. The pipe from the blocked bog was dribbling quite well
but there was obviously a reservoir of liquids somewhere along its
length. The drain rods are in the shed but the hose is nearby, so I
rammed as much hose up the pipe as I could, felt the bend, fiddled it
round the bend and guessed it was up the stack as far as the blocked
bog. Turned the water on and for a long time nothing happened except a
gurgling. Nipped in to check the bog wasn't overflowing. Withdrew the
pipe a bit at a time, pushing it in a bit and pulling it out a bit.
Suddenly an object appeared. It was quite large. I lifted it out and
continued. A lot of muck came down; an awful lot. I went in and tipped a
mop bucket full of water down the relevant bog. It swallowed it quickly
and gracefully. Back in the yard I sprayed water on the mystery object.
Surprisingly I recognised it. It was a My Little Pony. One of my
daughters was, as a small child, very keen on My Little Pony. She is now
43.

Bill

I hope you wash the little pony before you return it.

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On 15/10/2020 04:24, williamwright wrote:
Why is it that the drains always block in the middle of the night? Or to
be accurate, why is it that I always make the discovery that they are
blocked in the middle of the night? This time it was odd because it was
a bog that has never, in 45 years, blocked before.
I'm temperamentally unable to put jobs off until the next day, so I
filled three mop buckets with hot water and tipped it down the three
bogs. Each bog has a separate pipe to the first inspection cover in the
yard. Two swallowed it quite well but the bog that appeared to be
blocked would only take it slowly. So I repeated the treatment with that
bog and it definitely helped. But I put my boots, dressing gown, and a
cap lamp on and went out to the yard. The outlet to the next inspection
cover was clear. The pipe from the blocked bog was dribbling quite well
but there was obviously a reservoir of liquids somewhere along its
length. The drain rods are in the shed but the hose is nearby, so I
rammed as much hose up the pipe as I could, felt the bend, fiddled it
round the bend and guessed it was up the stack as far as the blocked
bog. Turned the water on and for a long time nothing happened except a
gurgling. Nipped in to check the bog wasn't overflowing. Withdrew the
pipe a bit at a time, pushing it in a bit and pulling it out a bit.
Suddenly an object appeared. It was quite large. I lifted it out and
continued. A lot of muck came down; an awful lot. I went in and tipped a
mop bucket full of water down the relevant bog. It swallowed it quickly
and gracefully. Back in the yard I sprayed water on the mystery object.
Surprisingly I recognised it. It was a My Little Pony. One of my
daughters was, as a small child, very keen on My Little Pony. She is now
43.

Bill
Do you remember eating it?

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williamwright wrote:

I'm temperamentally unable to put jobs off until the next day, so I
filled three mop buckets with hot water and tipped it down the three bogs.

If I had two working bogs, I'd be perfectly happy to leave a third
non-working one until the morning ...

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On 15/10/2020 07:16, jon wrote:
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 04:24:27 +0100, williamwright wrote:

Why is it that the drains always block in the middle of the night? Or to
be accurate, why is it that I always make the discovery that they are
blocked in the middle of the night? This time it was odd because it was
a bog that has never, in 45 years, blocked before.
I'm temperamentally unable to put jobs off until the next day, so I
filled three mop buckets with hot water and tipped it down the three
bogs. Each bog has a separate pipe to the first inspection cover in the
yard. Two swallowed it quite well but the bog that appeared to be
blocked would only take it slowly. So I repeated the treatment with that
bog and it definitely helped. But I put my boots, dressing gown, and a
cap lamp on and went out to the yard. The outlet to the next inspection
cover was clear. The pipe from the blocked bog was dribbling quite well
but there was obviously a reservoir of liquids somewhere along its
length. The drain rods are in the shed but the hose is nearby, so I
rammed as much hose up the pipe as I could, felt the bend, fiddled it
round the bend and guessed it was up the stack as far as the blocked
bog. Turned the water on and for a long time nothing happened except a
gurgling. Nipped in to check the bog wasn't overflowing. Withdrew the
pipe a bit at a time, pushing it in a bit and pulling it out a bit.
Suddenly an object appeared. It was quite large. I lifted it out and
continued. A lot of muck came down; an awful lot. I went in and tipped a
mop bucket full of water down the relevant bog. It swallowed it quickly
and gracefully. Back in the yard I sprayed water on the mystery object.
Surprisingly I recognised it. It was a My Little Pony. One of my
daughters was, as a small child, very keen on My Little Pony. She is now
43.

Bill

I hope you wash the little pony before you return it.


Well it was clearly $£&@ting like a horse!

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 09:23:08 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

I'm temperamentally unable to put jobs off until the next day, so
I
filled three mop buckets with hot water and tipped it down the
three
bogs.

If I had two working bogs, I'd be perfectly happy to leave a third
non-working one until the morning ...

I'm of the mind of "if something needs doing, do it" but even with no
working bogs I'd not be paddling about in the middle of the night
sorting it out. That's what the paddock is for or if really too cold
and/or wet a bucket...

The exception being if the blockage was causing internal flooding
when any waste water was discharged, that would meet the "if somthing
needs doing" requirement.

--
Cheers
Dave.

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 06:16:32 -0000 (UTC), jon wrote:

Back in the yard I sprayed water on the mystery object.
Surprisingly I
recognised it. It was a My Little Pony. One of my daughters was,
as a
small child, very keen on My Little Pony. She is now 43.

I hope you wash the little pony before you return it.

Bill has. I reckon it'll be an interesting conversation with
daughter...

--
Cheers
Dave.

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williamwright explained on 15/10/2020 :
I'm temperamentally unable to put jobs off until the next day, so I filled
three mop buckets with hot water and tipped it down the three bogs. Each bog
has a separate pipe to the first inspection cover in the yard.

I am exactly the same, any failure and I'm on it. I only delay jobs
which need a coat of thinking about, before I get stuck in.

In the mid 80's, all of our cast-iron fall pipes were changed for new
plastic ones. In 2001, our upstairs bathroom began to back up, no flow
at all to the man hole it was supposed to drain into. I eventually
dislodged several pieces of broken cast-iron pipe, obviously left in
there from the mid 80's.

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On 15/10/2020 04:24, williamwright wrote:

Back in the yard I sprayed water on the mystery object.
Surprisingly I recognised it. It was a My Little Pony. One of my
daughters was, as a small child, very keen on My Little Pony. She is now
43.


I share a sewerage outlet with two other neighbours. The last blockage
appeared to have been caused by large piece of porcelain stuck in the
pipe and only pushed to a manhole chamber with the use of drain rods.
The piece was from a broken up toilet bowl but definitely not broken up
within the last 20+ years.


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In article ,
alan_m wrote:
On 15/10/2020 04:24, williamwright wrote:

Back in the yard I sprayed water on the mystery object.
Surprisingly I recognised it. It was a My Little Pony. One of my
daughters was, as a small child, very keen on My Little Pony. She is now
43.


I share a sewerage outlet with two other neighbours. The last blockage
appeared to have been caused by large piece of porcelain stuck in the
pipe and only pushed to a manhole chamber with the use of drain rods.
The piece was from a broken up toilet bowl but definitely not broken up
within the last 20+ years.

I share with next door. The main drain runs from them to me in the back
garden, then out to the street under my house - or rather through the
cellar.

Next door were complaining of drain smells. I've got a pretty good idea
why. The previous owners when modernising had the outside bog removed and
fitted the boiler in there - gawd knows why. The plumbers were real
bodgers. Knocked a hole through the communal cellar wall (can only guess
why) which let rats into my house - while their kitchen wall was left open
for ages waiting for patio doors. My guess is they didn't cap off the old
drain from the outside bog properly. While bricking up the hole in the
cellar I looked through and saw at least two joints in the new plumbing
dripping.

DynaRod spent ages cleaning things. Odd, since nothing was blocked. And
didn't sort the source of the smells. But then told next door the problem
must be my side. Despite having the manholes here, front and back, opened
up.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

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williamwright wrote:

One of my daughters was, as a small child, very keen on My Little Pony.

Maybe it was another daughter who flushed her sister's toy?

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On 15/10/2020 09:05, wrote:

It was a My Little Pony. One of my daughters was, as a small child,
very keen on My Little Pony. She is now 43.

Bill
Do you remember eating it?

Now you come to mention it, no I don't. Odd.

Bill

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On 15/10/2020 09:23, Andy Burns wrote:
If I had two working bogs, I'd be perfectly happy to leave a third
non-working one until the morning ...

I just can't.

Bill

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On 15/10/2020 15:56, Andy Burns wrote:
williamwright wrote:

One of my daughters was, as a small child, very keen on My Little Pony.

I've never herd it called that before, you nonce!


Maybe it was another daughter who flushed her sister's toy?

Its the inrush of blood...

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always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them"

Margaret Thatcher

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On 15/10/2020 15:56, Andy Burns wrote:
williamwright wrote:

One of my daughters was, as a small child, very keen on My Little Pony.

Maybe it was another daughter who flushed her sister's toy?

An enquiry along those lines is now in progress. Although it's a cold
case I think the gin will talk.

Bill

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On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:17:37 +0100, williamwright wrote:

I just can't.

Sounds like you need a laxative...

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On Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 4:23:13 PM UTC+1, williamwright wrote:
On 15/10/2020 15:56, Andy Burns wrote:
williamwright wrote:

One of my daughters was, as a small child, very keen on My Little Pony..

Maybe it was another daughter who flushed her sister's toy?

An enquiry along those lines is now in progress. Although it's a cold
case I think the gin will talk.

Bill

Many years ago on moving a washing machine it transpired the outlet pipe had been blocked and the water was flowing on to the floor. Because the floor was covered in vinyl floor covering the water was flowing beneath this and disguising the fault. By he time it was discovered the floor was well rotted and dry rot had set in on the joists.

The cause of the blockage was very simple. When the house was being built a wood screw had fallen down the upright washing machine outlet pipe. Over the years the tiny fibres from the clothes being washed had got trapped on this screw and eventually built up enough to cause the blockage. Had to remove half the floor to effect a repair.