Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 1:38 pm
I have a 1930’s clay pipe damage system with no inspection chambers or rodding points! The gullies are not rodable, I think they have Q bands from what I can feel.
I don’t like not being able to clean the drains…. I can’t get a drain cleaning jet hose far past the Q bands – but have only tried a “DIY� spec hose on my domestic power water.
One of the gullies can be replaced as part of doing other work; however the other gullies are in paving I do not wish to disturb. So I am thinking of an inspection chamber at the point(s) the pipes join to allow rodding back to the gullies.
I assume that the pipes are all at the same level when they join, however when I look at pre-made inspection chambers on the web, the images see to show the pipes from the side at a higher level, so not making them an easy replacement for a “T� joint.
I have not yet uncovered any pipes, so don’t know what I am dealing with in detail.
Comment s please on what my options are…
What sort of costs am I likely to be looking at? (Maybe I just do nothing and pay £200 every time I get a block – assuming a professional jet hose will bit past the Q bands)
I don’t like not being able to clean the drains…. I can’t get a drain cleaning jet hose far past the Q bands – but have only tried a “DIY� spec hose on my domestic power water.
One of the gullies can be replaced as part of doing other work; however the other gullies are in paving I do not wish to disturb. So I am thinking of an inspection chamber at the point(s) the pipes join to allow rodding back to the gullies.
I assume that the pipes are all at the same level when they join, however when I look at pre-made inspection chambers on the web, the images see to show the pipes from the side at a higher level, so not making them an easy replacement for a “T� joint.
I have not yet uncovered any pipes, so don’t know what I am dealing with in detail.
Comment s please on what my options are…
What sort of costs am I likely to be looking at? (Maybe I just do nothing and pay £200 every time I get a block – assuming a professional jet hose will bit past the Q bands)