I've got a similar sink and it has no overflow.
There are two drains and each sink overflows into the other.
What have you been doing today?
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There are two drains and each sink overflows into the other.
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Luckily, the sink we have doesn’t have one otherwise it would be spouting out of there like a geyser!
No manhole for us. One in the next joint driveway and that’s clear, next one about 4 driveways down, that also clear.
Yep, same for us - thank God!
Definitely fitting a one way valve as soon as shops open.
That type of sink doesn't have the traditional overflow, they rely upon one of the two sinks not having a plug in, and the two sinks being joined by a low point.
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Still no show for Thames water. Latest update - before 9.05 as we phoned at 9.05 this morning. Was going round her brothers tonight and bringing her mum back with us but we've knocked that on the head so done me a bit of a favour. 
Can’t wash up or have a shower. Will have to go round my mums for a shower later. As Mrs Mottie says, it could be worse - we could be in a basement in Kyiv, freezing cold, hungry, crapping on the floor in a corner with 20 others in the room watching and with bombs dropping on our head. In that context, it’s nothing really. First world problems.
Can’t wash up or have a shower. Will have to go round my mums for a shower later. As Mrs Mottie says, it could be worse - we could be in a basement in Kyiv, freezing cold, hungry, crapping on the floor in a corner with 20 others in the room watching and with bombs dropping on our head. In that context, it’s nothing really. First world problems.
Fed up waiting for Thames water. Going to bed now - they said they can doi it sometime during the night without speaking to me. I bet they don’t even show. I think I’ve got enough weight holding the plugs in - Mrs Mottie says I’ve built my own mini Stonehenge!
Just had a call. Engineer about 20 minutes away apparently. The street'll love him, especially if he starts jetting at 2.00 in the morning! My mini Stonehenge to block the plug holes up worked perfectly and I shouldn’t laugh but I heard my neighbour screaming at his wife or kids to put the plug in the bath and then I could hear him running back and forth from his kitchen sink and throwing buckets of waste water over his garden. His house is higher than mine too so feck knows how high the ****e fountain would have been had my plugs blown out! He told me his kitchen was flooded.
Edit: All done!
2.00 in the morning and the first thing he did was to put 4 bollards round his van, then a couple of ‘keep left, keep right signs and took pictures.
He got the drain cover up two houses away, stuck a camera down first - said he could see a partially collapsed (fibre?) drain at around 15 metres away. He then rodded it with no luck so he then got the jet on it. That cleared it. He then gave me a capful of dye crystals and asked me to flush them down my toilet and when I went back he showed me the blue water running out. He's sending someone out tomorrow to look at the damage to my neighbours kitchen and he said they might line it or replace it. Quite a nice chap actually and not a bit grumpy at coming out at that hour on Boxing Day. I gave him a nice tip for doing it and he was more than happy.
In between the camera, rodding and jetting, every time he went back to his van, he refitted the cement drain cover in case I fell down the hole I suppose. He was huffing and puffing while he was rodding though once he got about 8 or 9 rods in there. I got a bit too nosey and peeked into the manhole and he caught me on my head with the floppy end of the rod. Didn’t half hurt and I’ve got a little bump for my trouble but I can’t blame him, I shouldn’t have been poking my nose in!
Right, I’ve loaded the dishwasher and cleaned the kitchen up but I’m all pumped now so I’ll have a cuppa, have a shower and get in bed. Family coming round today, good job it wasn't yesterday!
Edit: All done!
2.00 in the morning and the first thing he did was to put 4 bollards round his van, then a couple of ‘keep left, keep right signs and took pictures.
He got the drain cover up two houses away, stuck a camera down first - said he could see a partially collapsed (fibre?) drain at around 15 metres away. He then rodded it with no luck so he then got the jet on it. That cleared it. He then gave me a capful of dye crystals and asked me to flush them down my toilet and when I went back he showed me the blue water running out. He's sending someone out tomorrow to look at the damage to my neighbours kitchen and he said they might line it or replace it. Quite a nice chap actually and not a bit grumpy at coming out at that hour on Boxing Day. I gave him a nice tip for doing it and he was more than happy.
In between the camera, rodding and jetting, every time he went back to his van, he refitted the cement drain cover in case I fell down the hole I suppose. He was huffing and puffing while he was rodding though once he got about 8 or 9 rods in there. I got a bit too nosey and peeked into the manhole and he caught me on my head with the floppy end of the rod. Didn’t half hurt and I’ve got a little bump for my trouble but I can’t blame him, I shouldn’t have been poking my nose in!
Right, I’ve loaded the dishwasher and cleaned the kitchen up but I’m all pumped now so I’ll have a cuppa, have a shower and get in bed. Family coming round today, good job it wasn't yesterday!
Our drain is definitely clear now but next door have just knocked and theirs isn’t! Strange because our waste has to go past their house so theirs must be blocked before it enters the drain. My only fear now is that when they do clear whatever is blocking theirs, it will catch in the crushed section before it gets to the manhole and we'll be back to square one.
Or, it could just be that the original blockage site is bunged up again, and your neighbours' lower drainage capacity - being downstream of you - has been reached?
Just been and lifted the manhole cover to satisfy myself, got my wife to flush our toilet and…
sod all! Nothing coming through like it was last night. Back on to Thames water and on hold at the moment.….
sod all! Nothing coming through like it was last night. Back on to Thames water and on hold at the moment.….
Our neighbours house is a couple of feet higher up the hill than ours although it flows past them and it’s coming up in their sink but not ours. Last night, his whole kitchen was flooded.
I/we have never had that much trouble with drains, lucky really, I suppose. What problems we have had, I have sorted myself.
Worst was the upstairs toilet, which gradually backed up. Lifting the manhole cover, that was clear, I eventually found that a lump of broken cast-iron pipe had allowed to fall in, when the cast-iron had been replaced (by a careless contractor) with a plastic soil pipe down the wall. I was very lucky to get that piece of iron out, without digging, or disturbing the plastic pipe. It was a decade or more, between the pipe being changed and it actually becoming a problem, blocking.
Then next door decided it was just fine for them to direct their kitchen sink drain, through the fence, and illegally into my rain water gully. Their debris, constantly blocked the gulley grid, over flowing onto my garden. Local water authority, threatened them with court, unless they revised it. My own kitchen sink originally discharged on top of another foul gulley grid and did likewise, so I resolved that by cutting a gap in the grid and extending the pipe below it.
Both foul and rain water discharge directly into two large shared pipes which run along the back gardens. Located as I am, at a local high point of the village, we have never had any problems with those, or flooding, though the lower, more recently built parts do frequently suffer.
Worst was the upstairs toilet, which gradually backed up. Lifting the manhole cover, that was clear, I eventually found that a lump of broken cast-iron pipe had allowed to fall in, when the cast-iron had been replaced (by a careless contractor) with a plastic soil pipe down the wall. I was very lucky to get that piece of iron out, without digging, or disturbing the plastic pipe. It was a decade or more, between the pipe being changed and it actually becoming a problem, blocking.
Then next door decided it was just fine for them to direct their kitchen sink drain, through the fence, and illegally into my rain water gully. Their debris, constantly blocked the gulley grid, over flowing onto my garden. Local water authority, threatened them with court, unless they revised it. My own kitchen sink originally discharged on top of another foul gulley grid and did likewise, so I resolved that by cutting a gap in the grid and extending the pipe below it.
Both foul and rain water discharge directly into two large shared pipes which run along the back gardens. Located as I am, at a local high point of the village, we have never had any problems with those, or flooding, though the lower, more recently built parts do frequently suffer.
We had the lower cast section of pipe cut out and replaced with plastic about 25 years ago and just after that was our first blockage…………
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We've had trouble over the years.
Had a few blockages.
We have a manhole cover in our garage, which next door's foul drain links into ( ).
It has blocked many times due to partial collapse and tree roots.
Once we even had waste flowing from one of the upstairs pans after flushing.
On this occasion, I asked next door if they'd had any issues, which they denied. It was a few days before I could get it unblocked. Christ knows what they did in those few days ...
They have never acknowledged that their drain runs into ours or even offered to contribute to the cost of unblocking.
Last time it happened the water board said it was now their responsibility, so put a liner in the pipe. We've had no trouble since.
Had a few blockages.
We have a manhole cover in our garage, which next door's foul drain links into (
).It has blocked many times due to partial collapse and tree roots.
Once we even had waste flowing from one of the upstairs pans after flushing.
On this occasion, I asked next door if they'd had any issues, which they denied. It was a few days before I could get it unblocked. Christ knows what they did in those few days ...
They have never acknowledged that their drain runs into ours or even offered to contribute to the cost of unblocking.
Last time it happened the water board said it was now their responsibility, so put a liner in the pipe. We've had no trouble since.
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