Blocked Drains

When a toilet freshener leaves a bad smell

Don’t Stick Things Inside Your Toilet Pans

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Plumbdog Rhyse is on the job today who was called out to investigate a blocked drain causing a blocked toilet.

This one is a short video but there’s so many key messages we want to share which we mention time and time again and can’t stress the importance for the benefit of our customers.

Inspection Point 

You would hear us barking about this all the time, but we can’t stress how important knowing where your inspection points are. You can see in the video that Rhyse had to really get his paws dirty (but what a neat job he’s done) getting under tiles and digging to gain access to the plumbing inspection point.

If you do not know the locations of your plumbing access points, the plumber would need to spend time sniffing them out as you would have seen in some of our previous videos.

The Cause of The Blocked Drain

A toilet freshener caused the blocked drain at the property today. This style of toilet freshener is commonly available from hardware stores to dollar shops and quite commonly found in homes across Perth and even throughout Australia.

There’s plenty of common causes of blocked drains in the bathroom from hair to build-up of soap scum and we see all sorts of objects being found being flushed down the toilet. Who would have guessed that something made for a toilet could be the cause of this plumbing issue.

Tips to help you Save Time & Money

Long Term Solutions

At properties like this, we will often recommend that you extend the inspection point to ground level especially if it falls within your budget. This extra expense now will help you save on time related expenses in the future with any plumbing issues in the same area as the plumber will not have to spend time unnecessarily digging and replacing dirt and tiles.

Furthermore, if planning home improvements, renovations, extensions, do not overlook your inspection points and plumbing. A short term saving could become a more costly expense in the future.

Don’t Stick Things Inside Your Toilet Pan

You heard our Plumbdog say it in the video. If you are going to use these items, be aware that they can and do break or fall off and can be the cause of a plumbing issue costing much more to fix than what the actual item is worth.

When it comes to blocked toilets, we have the nose and skills to sniff out and fix any plumbing issues. If you’re in the Greater Perth, give us a whistle!

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Beware Of The Dog!

When a Blocked Drain turns into a necessary Drain Repair job.

Darius performs big plumbing tasks in small spaces.

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Today’s adventure takes us to Swan View where there’s a clear warning “Beware Of The Dog!”. A client contacted us about a blocked drain from the laundry. After trying to clear the disconnector gully (drain gully) with no success, Top Dog Darius suspects concrete or some other mischief and needs to do what Plumbdog’s do best. Digging!

What is a gully?

There are different types of gullies but in context of the property today, the gully is a water drain pipe outside of the home which designed to discharge surface water from the garden, guttering and wastewater from washing machines, dishwashers, sinks and showers. In the event of a blockage, the gully helps to prevent sewerage from flooding your house by directing the overflow away from your property.

The Problem Revealed

Check out the video at [1:10]. Darius extracts the earthenware pipe revealing “the old concrete in a gully trick.”

Wondering how did the concrete get in there? Well, sometimes during renovations or home repairs, cement is spilled around drains by accident into the drainage system eventually hardening and forming obstructions. The difference between a concrete blockage compared to a blocked drain caused by more common issues like tree roots is that often with general blockages, our custom made high powered water jetters are up to the task and have even taken on some concrete obstructions before but as you can see from the video today, there are circumstances where a repair and a rebuild is necessary.

Working In Tight Spaces

You would have seen Darius at work before and we’re always proud to show off the good work he does. Check out not only how neat his workmanship is, but how he creates minimal disturbances around the blocked drain area and puts everything back together so neatly. Possibly even better than how it was before. The quality of workmanship isn’t just demonstrated by our top dogs. To be a Plumbdog, we expect pedigree and for all our Plumbdog’s to be held to these high standards.

All in a day’s work while being supervised by a thirsty lizard. We managed to clear the drain and replace the old gully and put everything back as if we weren’t even there. Don’t forget to like and subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay up to date with our latest videos!

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Rhyse from Plumbdog here!

I’m currently out in North Perth. A bloke has called me up to go and look at an issue that he’s got with the drain in the upstairs bathroom basin. Let’s see how much hair and toothpaste are in it!

These pop-up plugging ways are the worst. They always get stuck. Mmm, yummy. I should be able to pop that up, hopefully. Oh jeez. Ah, it is one of those ones. I don’t really know what’s happened here. Somebody has made a makeshift plug. It’s meant to pop up and down, which this thing doesn’t do because the spring has been removed. No good.

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Hello everyone, it’s Darius at Plumbdog!

I’ve got a blocked drain out in Kallaroo to go and resolve now. I know I’ve done this one before and it was pretty interesting. That was a few years ago so let’s see what’s happened and what’s developed since then.

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I was out here a while ago, actually, it was a couple of years ago. We’ve got a jump-up here, which runs down to the sewer behind the shed. There we go, that’s what we’re dealing with. Yeah, tree roots and a broken junction. We are getting somewhere now! We’ve got that jump-up cleared and it looks like there’s a lot of damage in the back of it. Following drain cleaning, we’re just going back through to make sure that’s all still clear. That’s the sewer main and that’s all the tree roots that have come out of that junction.

Ooh, looky! It’s the brace from the camera. Lucky now!

That’s what we’re left with. You can see that’s got a hole in the back of the junction, combined with all the other breaks where the roots are getting in. So that’s definitely going to all come back, but it’s clean. We’ve got no more roots left in there. That’s good.

Well, we’ve got that drain cleaned up nicely. The roots know it’s there and they’re just going to grow straight back in unless we can get repairs made to that drain, which we can do even though there’s a shed on the top of it. Probably the best thing for the homeowner long-term is to think about getting that done.

Thanks for watching guys. Take care. I’ll see you for the next one