blockage

I have a shower, bath and basin that all drain slowly, and the bath emptying now results in water coming up through shower trap. A lot of gurgling noises too. The shower trap does not empty quickly enough and will overflow over the shower tray if take a shower over a couple of minutes. I have...

My Hotpoint HSFO 3T223 started displaying the F03 error code which indicates a drainage issue. I've began by cleaning out the internal filters which had barely anything inside, I then disconnected from the wall and the waste under my sink and drained the waste pipe out manually. This didn't work...

I recently moved into my first home in November 2023, I am just starting out in my DIY as the name suggests but willing to give anything a go and have been successful so far. Since I moved in 4 rads haven’t worked as they should, some not getting hot at all and others getting partially hot with...

Hi, I am dealing with a problem in a 2008 gloworm 18hxi. It works, and the house gets warm. But not as quick as it used to, and it does that on/off/on/off/on thing when the flow in the exchanger is knackered, and it is trying not to overheat. I appreciate it is old and so whole replacement...

Hi All, The hours has a fairly modern (last 10 years) heating system, a number of radiators upstairs are cold (they were not great last year, but the year before they were fine). I have taken them off the wall and flushed them, but there appears to be a blockage somewhere. I believe there was...

for the last few days waste seems to be back feeding into my downstairs toilet bowl. It cleans and flushes quickly with no apparent problem but after a while some waste appears in the bowl again. Is this coming from the drain in the street? I was thinking a blockage outside but when flushed the...

Having ongoing problems with a lack of hot water flow from both ground and first floor taps - it’s a basic vented cylinder system, cylinder is fed from the cold water tank in an attic; all the cold taps upstairs and down off the mains, the attic cold tank appears to directly supply only the...

Any of you plumbers got any thoughts on this please. Brother in law has Worchester heat only boiler, linked to an unvented cylinder. (Centerstore)... was all new in 2013. He was saying the pressure wasn't very good on his taps... it was the cold feed, which I thought doesn't go through the...

I recently had the manhole cover off my drain as there was a smell of blocked drains, turned out to be next door But I did notice what looks like a small blockage at the bottom, it almost looks like cement / concrete I’ve never looked down a sewer so not sure what it should look like! Also...

Hi, Our toilet started leaking at the pan connector a few weeks ago so I replaced this part myself thinking it was a simple enough job... When dismantling the toilet & old connector I discovered that an extender was pushed inside the soil pipe which I thought was odd as the standard pan...

Evening, I am posting here in the hope that someone with knowledge of this particular fault may be able to help me. Having moved in to a new build 3 years ago our ideal c35 boiler has started to display a fault and in turn prevented us from having any hot water. In fact this started almost a...

Hi! Hopefully somebody will be willing to help me with this issue? I have bought and installed a underfloor heating system. I have followed all of the instructions on installing and priming it and I am satisfied that I have done a good job! however, the system does not seam to circulate! I...

Hi, So I was called out to a customers house today, they were complaining of no water to their bathroom cold taps, after some investigation I found a mouse lodged in the cold pipe that feeds the bathroom from the tank. I removed the mouse and found its head was missing presumably sucked further...

Hi there, I’m looking for some advice and posting on behalf of my old man. On Saturday night, we realised that the shower was only giving out hot water. We went into the loft and discovered that loft insulation had fallen into the water tank. We got most of it out, but there was still no cold...

Hello lovely people. My washer is not draining due to a blockage. I believe it is a small piece of fabric as it went in the wash and didn’t come out :(. I have opened front hatch and drained machine and cleaned filter and coin catcher at the front of the machine (all clear). Having looked...

Same as thread https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/microbore.67541/ I have some of my radiators with microbore system and twin valves blocked. How to fix the problem? I thought the problem was with the system being full of sludge so i had a full flush done but that did not fix the problem...

Hi folks, So I have a mixer tap in my bathroom and when I move it to the hot position the water trickles out. It never gets hot, I assume because the flow is not great enough to kick the combi boiler on. I replaced the tap thinking it was that, same problem. If I move the tap to the middle...

There are loads of trees in the area and so the gutters get loads of leaves in them. In the past leaves (mostly broken down bits) have got into the downpipes and blocked them in the bends at the top, leading to the gutters overflowing. In the two most affected places I fitted gutter balloons...

Hi Guys, The outdoor garden drain is blocked quite severely with years of fat, oils, grease build etc.. Most likely from the previous owner of the home, with the addition to my own. The problem started as I noticed my kitchen sink was not allowing water to drain and was coming back up. I...

Hi Wonder if anyone has any advice before I go for the powerflush! I recently fitted a new boiler and replaced an old beast gravity hw with no controls. I put the system on an s-plan and everything filled nicely. I have all rads circulating apart from 2 downstairs rads. I had them luke warm and...