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I have a rainwater drain that I've tried to rod. I can get about 10m or so along it with flexible drain rods before I hit something the rods wont bend around. The water does drain away slowly but I'm wondering if hiring a electric drain cleaner would be worthwhile / cost effective before I called in a pro. Is it worth a punt for a £50 day hire?
http://www.martinplanthire.co.uk/product/electric-drain-cleaner
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If it's only for rainwater and you can't get passed it with rods then I'd be suspecting a collapse or roots having broken through and I doubt that device is going to help. It might be better to hire a camera.
The drain runs fairly flat for about 25m, there was a lot of leaf mould and sediment in the section we managed to unblock before the manhole covered trap. My hope is that sediment has washed it's way down after it and lost momentum and been deposited in the pipe rather than a collapse or root intrusion. There may well be a junction where I felt the blockage too. I never though about a camera that could go down a drain.
Dig up at the blockage to check the pipe?
Have you tried the corkscrew type attachments?
Dig up at the blockage to check the pipe?
It's under the drive and I would only dig it up as a last resort. There must be a junction where the drain from the back/side of the house meets the front. At the blockage point there aren't any trees nearby so I'm hoping there won't be any root damage. The drains at the junction are old school Victorian, the bits we've had most trouble with we had installed when we came. It's more than likely a failure of the new stuff.
I paid a drain dude to come out with his video camera, found all the issues, and was able to fix with rods and jetting. Cheaper than digging a hole..
Rainwater? Are you sure it's not just a soakaway?