Levelling Compound in Drain !

[Spinny]

So our flooring contractor has managed to pour floor levelling compound down one of our drains !

We have a rain water drain that is completely blocked at the u-bend.

Other parts of the drain had deposits.

 

Is there any way we might be able to unblock the rain water drain ? Some kind of solvent or acid ?

 

Plumber cleared some from the vertical part of the drain using a very long drill bit, but clearly won't go around a bend.

 

Drain pipe is clay. Levelling compound is Bostik C530 which has fibre reinforcement.

Edited yesterday at 20:50 by Spinny

[Russell griffiths]

Keep it wet, keep the u bend completely full, if you let the air get to it it will harden. 
get a piece of 15 mm hep 2 pipe and ram it around the trap, back and forth 

take detailed timing of how long this takes and charge the flooring contractor 

 

you really are attracting some muppets. 

[Spinny]

Here is a piece the plumber drilled out of the pipe vertical - see photo.

You can see the reinforcing fibres in the leveller, and you can see some sticking out in the middle photo above.

 

I doubt the 15mm hep 2 pipe is going to do anything TBH. The plumber was having to drill bits out.

That said I did get some bits out of the main drain pipe by ramming some 32mm MDPE up and down the pipe - but that was straight pipe and only congealed pieces stuck to the bottom of the pipe.

Plumber was of the opinion the drain would have to be replaced - but once you start on clay pipe that is 90 years old you are likely to end up replacing the lot.

 

I have just about had enough now. The last 'customer' of my original builder was having him do a barn conversion - 'customer' died of a heart attack during the build. If I stop posting you'll know I've gone the same way.

 

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[Nickfromwales]

Are you saying this was poured down the drain as a way to clean up at the end of the day and dispose of the excess goop?

 

If so......................what a cock.