Rods are for "outdoors" plumbing. Once you're near the house, they won't go round the tight corners.
Recently Aldi were selling excellent spiral metal drain cleaners for only 4 quid. Not the reach of rods, but they'll go round tight bends. Beefier than the usual bendy rods too.
Failing that, try chemistry. Conc. sulphuric is 5-10 quid from a builders' merchant for a bottle of concentrated evil and will shift foodgunk blockages pretty well (Caustic soda cleasrs slow pipes, but if it's actually blocked, you're usually better with an acid. However you _must_ wear gloves and goggles with the acid, it's a lot less tolerant of accident than soda pellets). "Thaumaturgy brand" is of course the best, just because of the wonderful name.
Plumbers will chartge you a massive callout, then just use exactly the same tools. For 50-100 quid, I'll wear gloves for an hour.
Do you mean something like this (http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/nav/nav.jsp?action=detail&fh_secondid=9271672&fh_view_size=6&fh_location=%2f%2fcatalog01%2fen_GB&fh_search=drain&fh_eds=%c3%9f&fh_refview=search&ts=1209384508478&isSearch=true)? K I'm tempted to whizz over to B&Q and get one.
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Date: 2008-04-28 11:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-28 11:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-28 12:02 pm (UTC)Recently Aldi were selling excellent spiral metal drain cleaners for only 4 quid. Not the reach of rods, but they'll go round tight bends. Beefier than the usual bendy rods too.
Failing that, try chemistry. Conc. sulphuric is 5-10 quid from a builders' merchant for a bottle of concentrated evil and will shift foodgunk blockages pretty well (Caustic soda cleasrs slow pipes, but if it's actually blocked, you're usually better with an acid. However you _must_ wear gloves and goggles with the acid, it's a lot less tolerant of accident than soda pellets). "Thaumaturgy brand" is of course the best, just because of the wonderful name.
Plumbers will chartge you a massive callout, then just use exactly the same tools. For 50-100 quid, I'll wear gloves for an hour.
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Date: 2008-04-28 12:06 pm (UTC)The only trouble is that you order them from Screwfix, and then have to order another £30-worth of Stuff just to save £2.95 on shipping... ;-)
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Date: 2008-04-28 12:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-28 12:09 pm (UTC)I'm tempted to whizz over to B&Q and get one.
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Date: 2008-04-28 01:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-04-28 02:50 pm (UTC)