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Moved into a new place 6 months ago and I've used 3 packets of Caustic soda trying to unblock the shower drain. Still doesn't drain properly.
Suggestions?
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Done that dude but thanks.
Take the drain apart... It'll be mangled in hair I expect. Or running uphill...
If you're going to take it apart wear gloves, some of that caustic may still be hanging about.
If the grating can be removed (often clipped in to the waste) so that you can access the waste pipe more easily, a flexible shaft tool like [url= http://www.screwfix.com/p/plumbing-tools-by-rothenberger-pipe-drain-cleaning-coil/65766 ]this[/url] would probably do the trick. As spooky says, it's usually a bolus of matted hair that you'd expect a cat to have hoicked up noisily.
Right, had another go with the plunger and it drains fine after but then slows down again a few hours later. It drains much slower when the sink next to it is draining at the same time. Any ideas on what the prob is?
Get a wet and dry vacumn and place over drain and switch on, also try and hook out any hair witn a metal clothes hanger, caustic soda canm also go hard in the drain unless you flushed plenty of water after it.
Finally check the drain runs down hill, worked in a house where the bath drain ran up hill and bath wouldnt drain fully.
Also lift the manhole ouside and check for wet ones/sanitry pads blocking the drain.
If you take the grating out, the baffle part of the trap should come out with a half turn anticlockwise.
Your problem sounds like a blockage further down the line. Do sink and shower drain into a 65mm cast iron pipe running down the outside of the building? If so there should be a "handhole" access point covered with a plate and 2 square bolts. If the remove this cover and water pours out then the is a blockage in this pipe.
anything work