Clearing of sewer pipes: elimination of blockages most

12-04-2018

Sewage

It is with sewage that unforeseen difficulties most often occur. Then something got into it, and water began to stagnate, then a cork of fat gathered on the walls of the pipes. In a word - clogged up. Now we will understand what means to clean the sewer pipes to apply.

Where is a clogged place

Where is the pipe blocked? These may be the following places:

sewer riser;
plumbing in the kitchen;
bathroom and wash basin;
Washer;
possible general sewer blockage.

If the water that has accumulated in the sink does not flow from just one plumbing fixture, for example, from a sink in the bathroom, and from others (washing in the kitchen and a toilet bowl) it goes off normally, then the problem is just one tap. When cleaning the pipes without resorting to the help of experienced workers (a cleaning machine in their hands is one of the most effective methods), at home they use all that is available.

Tip! For work, you can use a cleaning machine that more effectively cope with the blockage. Working with it takes less time, as it is fully automated.

Mechanized method of cleaning household sewage

If a person lives in a house with a large number of floors and a lot of apartments, and water not only does not leave the bathroom, toilet and kitchen, but also rises, it means that the problem is more serious, and you can’t do without the help of city services, because riser.

Tip! In order for the water not to get to your sink, you can install a check valve on the sewer pipe to the riser.

Varieties of blockages and their differences

There are several types of blockages that differ in how trash enters.

Operational clogging does not appear immediately, at one moment. An attentive person can easily notice that the water does not go through the pipes as quickly as before. In this case, it is necessary to take action until the pipe is completely blocked. Why does this happen to sewer pipes? This is due to the deposition of fat accumulating on the walls. Solid particles form in the pipe and are contained in the effluent. Within the sewer pipeline, these fractions form a solid funnel of smaller diameter, which decreases with each passage of oily water until it completely closes.

The next type of blockage mechanical. It appears most often where families live with one child or several children who can “accidentally” drop any object into the pipe. One word - for children you need an eye and an eye. So if you did not keep up in time, the thing that got into the pipe is firmly stuck inside it, which is why water runs down extremely badly or does not flow at all.

Under the sinks installed siphons - they also often appear traffic jams. What is siphon? This device, which aims to prevent the bad smell from the sewer into the room through the pipe. The principle of its operation is the following - inside it always remains a little water, which, in fact, serves as an obstacle to the smell.

From time to time the siphon becomes clogged - debris accumulates (after washing hands, dishes, and so on). In itself, all this does not go away from the siphon; moreover, if the siphon is not cleaned in time, the garbage in it can become denser and the cork will become more dense.

The solution in this case is to remove this device and rinse it, preferably not over the sink, since water from it without a siphon will flow to the floor. Then it is installed again in its place. We start the water and rejoice - everything works perfectly!

Tip! If you rinse the siphon, except in the sink, there is nowhere else, then you can substitute a bucket under it for water to drain into.

The most difficult is technogenic blockage. It arises constantly and unforeseenly, and all due to the fact that at one time in the design of sewage drains someone made serious mistakes - not the right angle or the wrong diameter of pipes. Anyway, the pipes can clog in this case every 2–3 weeks. This happens due to the fact that during installation the norms required for the sewage system were not observed - the wrong incline of the pipe or its angle of rotation were applied. If during the construction of the house you decide that the sewer can be collected somehow - get used to man-made blockages.

Methods for cleaning

How exactly to clean the sewage pipeline already depends on what kind of blockage occurred and how serious the problem is. You can begin to clean the pipes with the most common methods, but if they do not help, then you have to use more serious devices, such as hydrodynamic cleaning of the sewage system. During such an operation, water supplied to the pipe under strong pressure acts on the inner surface of the walls of the sewage system. After that, the cork is broken and the particles remaining after it are washed away.

One of the most convenient for cleaning is considered operational clogging, in particular, if its appearance is noticed on time. It is usually enough to pour a bucket of hot water into the riser, after adding the soda. After it, any fat deposits melt and dissolve, and all of the particles go through the sewers. If you have some means of chemistry on hand, you can not boil water.

Tip! If chemicals are used, carefully read the instructions that the manufacturer sticks to the packaging. Be sure to observe accuracy and take measures that will protect the eyes and skin of hands.

Any chemical compositions intended for cleaning the sewage system are harmful enough to the human respiratory tract. Therefore, in order not to bring harm to yourself, you need to think about how the room will be ventilated during cleaning (in a natural or forced manner).

To clean the pipes from light pollution, you should use a plunger. Using it, you can eliminate not only operational, but also mechanical clogging. The use of a plunger is quite simple. They need to close the outlet of the sink, draw water into it, then with a short and quick motion raise the plunger, press it down and then release it sharply again. As a result, the cork makes its way up and garbage or objects that have fallen into the sewer can get out.

Sewerage cleaning wire is another reliable method that is used by many locksmiths in case of pipe clogging. It is used as an extreme option if neither household chemicals nor a plunger helped solve the problem. What is needed is not an ordinary wire, but a cable with a handle for its rotation. What are we doing? The end of the cable is introduced gradually into the drain hole, while it constantly rotates slowly by hand. If you feel resistance, you can determine exactly where the pipe is clogged, and try to pierce it with this wire.

It also happens that the cable seems to have reached the end, did not meet resistance, and the water still does not leave. This means only one thing - it is too short and simply did not reach the cork. It is necessary to apply something longer or try to disassemble the pipe and shove it lower.

If pipes are clogged all the time, it is important to determine where exactly the blockage occurs. One of the reasons may be an improperly assembled node - it is enough just to eliminate the malfunction of one or several such elements in the system. If these blockages do not appear in one place, it is necessary to check whether the angle of inclination of the pipes was made correctly during installation.

How can tilt angle be performed? If we take into account that the length of the pipe is measured in meters, then after each meter of length it should fall 1 cm below. When this angle does not meet the standards, then the flow rate increases, as a result of which small particles do not have time to get out of the pipe and settle on its walls. There is only one way to fix it - to redo everything anew.

Alternatively, the pipes can be cleaned with soda and vinegar. The solution itself is prepared inside the pipe. For its "preparation" you will need to have about half a glass of baking soda and the same amount of vinegar. After this, the drain hole must be tried to close, as tightly as possible, an hour or two. When time is up, you need to pour a few liters of boiling water into the pipe to check if the problem is fixed or not. At the same time washed off and homemade solution with the sediment.

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