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Son re did the bit that goes onto the Ferrex tool but "right" side up. Much better. Cut down on the supports underneath to speed things up which might have been a mistake as it's a bit stringy and rough here and there but then you won't see this area. (White PLA really is crap to photograph): (Broke a little bit off one of the slot edges when clipping to the tool as I misaligned it). As I've no intention of ever buying a Ferrex charger or battery, the plan is to drill through the tangs in the tool base and solder heavy duty wires on. Lad is just printing the Makita battery connector for me. Can't help thinking this would be better in ABS. Going to buy some ABS Pro I think.

??? There were moments when I didn't think it was going to go though! SWMBO fed the whole 6m of the snake through the blockage to start with, think she should have stopped when she hit the "wall" and started rotating then. Tbh there wasn't that much resistance. Anyway, nothing happening so I got the cordless on it. Still nothing. Think in the process I've killed this brand new Silverline snake only delivered this evening. (That's a strip down I'm not looking forward to). Put the other half litre of the cleaner down and still nothing. I was hand rodding like a good 'un and nothing was moving. Poured a couple of buckets of hot with bleach down and still nowt. I remembered school physics lessons with the vacuum pumps that ran off of the bench taps. So with me in the upstairs ensuite, No1 son on the stairs and SWMBO in the main downstairs bathroom we went for a synchronised flush. OMFG! Things started vibrating in the loft as the turd slug started shifting, the AAV was clattering like a demented Kango. Then the whoosh we'd been longing for and the sound of sweet running water down the pipe. Celebrating with some crumpets and a pint of Levy. Thanks to all who chipped in as ever.

I'm so, so sorry...

Vertical black stack outside is empty as in it "tapped" hollow. You can anyway feel its empty just by wobbling it. I removed the screw on cap and the push fit plug. Clean as a whistle and I could see right along the horizontal waste to the downstairs bathroom wc. Now the weird bit: Up in the loft I started tap, tapping on the pipe with an off cut of 15mm copper. It sounds hollow from where it exits at the eaves back to about halfway along the horizontal pipe. From the half way point back to the two grey branch arrangement sounds solid and "full". I put a straight edge on the pipe and there's maybe a very slight dip in the middle. I meant to but never finished, cut ever decreasing height supports thus theres only one like this cut and glued to a ceiling joist: 500ml of that cleaner @jamiehamysuggested but I think the blockage is too far down. Just awaiting Amazon for the drilly, twisty unblocker thing.

Just been using that to try and unblock the loo here.

A lightweight distro on CD wouldn't read / install quicker? Puppy is circa 200MB. Tiny Core is 15MB

I swear you lot just want to see me covered in No2! ?

I like that idea, a bit worried though the extra weight might push out that fitting or cap on the lower branch. Plus if it doesn't "go", I've got more water in there to wait for it to shift.

Thinking that too now as trying to lift the pipe from the double branch end and it's very heavy as though the whole, near 3m length is full.

The branch has a screwed on access cap like this: I fitted it as I was worried about future access to the near horizontal wc waste pipe from the new, wall hung wc downstairs. That should give great access. However, I unscrewed the cap last night for the first time, in the dark and it looks like I need to take a Starrett to it to open it up? Maybe there's a close fitting, push fit plug I didn't see under the screw cap?

When it backed up both downstairs and the single upstairs were backing up. How dare up the pipe I don't know The grey soil in the loft goes thru x2 45s at the eaves then straight down the wall in the black 110mm, on the left in the picture below. It passes through a branch which takes the new, downstair's bathrooms soil. Then into the rest bend and onto the manhole. Also shown is the downstairs cloak wc coming in from the right. Both downstairs loos are flushing fine. The man hole is clear. The blockage then is either in that vertical black 110 above the branch, the two 45s or the "flat" grey in the loft as aforementioned. After it drains, one flush from the upstairs ensuite and it looks like this: Poocrete...lovely term! ?

You want I think ideally to end up with a true dual boot system rather than Linux sitting on top of Windows.

I've been looking at 10/20m copies of the Karcher one on Amazon, circa £30. I like the idea it might scour the inside of the pipe clean.

I (often?) do the main clay drain in the garden like that. In the loft it'd be a case of having to get the hose up there (no problem) and shouting (screaming? ? ) at whoever is operating the outside tap to shut things off in a hurry if it all turns to sh**!

It's yours once I've finished with it.

I have a drill powered snake coming later today as backup:

Won't a Live CD boot/load/run quicker than a DVD? There was a while back that linux based distro, Remix OS, the Android esque one, which would only run on top of an existing Windows install. I wonder if there's others? Now that you have an OS on there, albeit XP have you tried from a Live disc?

I wasn't intending pouring it down the pan as it's clear from there to the two branch junction, rather I was going to pour it down into where the cap lid is off that last picture above. That being said I've a few bottles here of 37% sulphuric acid for topping up batteries. I wonder if that would do the trick?

A mate had it done. Said it was a doddle. Made contact with one of the council approved contractors. Any problem was "no problem, don't worry, I'll sort it". Turns out he was the BiL of someone at the council. ?

I've reserved one at Homebase. Collecting tomorrow. Cheers.

Just to get the party started I've added a cup of vinegar from the Christmas pickled onions, one of Diet Coke and a cup of baking powder! Treat 'em right is my motto!

It's now had 1 cup car shampoo, 1kg of soda crystals and a bath bomb dropped down the upper cap as above. Followed by a bucket of hot down the pan. No movement as yet. Not much fizzing either. Maybe I'll hear a big WHOOSH in the middle of the night! Interestingly and I presume its correct but as I push in / take out the cap the AAV click-clacks. Failing that I'll get some sodium hydroxide tomorrow.

@Onoff performing La Fontaine de Merde... Pre flushing I could take the lower cap out and see that pipe going off to the left, the lower, flatter one was blocked up. Post flushing and the level rises to as shown below. In the absence of any sodium hydroxide I've thrown a cup of car shampoo in, hopefully to soften things up a bit and maybe cut through some fats. When it goes down I'm going to drop this in and get SWMBO to tip a bucket of hot down the pan whilst I hang on for dear life to these push fit joints. SDS bits I've just noticed could come in handy! ? Gotta have date nights like this to keep the romance alive!

Just done so...pictures to follow! ?

The upstairs en suite has a blockage! Not really been right since the cess pool needed emptying and backed up. Water will eventually drain but not paper. Tbh the 110 soil runs in the loft are a bit ad hoc, modded as I've been doing the new downstairs bathroom. WC waste comes straight thru from the en suite into the loft hip end on the left of the picture. Theres an AAV just out of picture. Comes across in the grey at a few degrees slope. Drops and turns thru 90deg through the two branch arrangement to the right: Then straight along at a few degrees slope again: Out the eaves at the end and straight down the wall. Pretty sure the blockage is in the near horizontal runs or that double branch arrangement. Was going to try a cup of washing up liquid down the pan first followed by a bucket of hot water down the pan. If things don't shift I've just bought a bath bomb for some fizzy, effervescent, sh!t shifting action! Was tempted to remove the AAV and drop it into the run there i.e after the wc trap. Slightly worried it might force the joints apart! Any suggestions? Ta.