Monthly Archives: September 2015

The danger of a hidden push fit waste.

Sometimes waste from a basin, shower or bath can disappear beneath floorboards enroute to exiting the property.
If at some point this pipe is insufficiently inclined to keep a good downhill flow, the pipe will silt up with general gunk created by soap residues, hair, spat out toothpaste and everything just about everything else that goes down the plug hole.
Eventually, as a result of this lethargic flow there may be a blockage and the usual method of clearance will involve a plunger of some kind to force water down the pipe and force the build-up of crap along.
However, if unseen, there could easily be push-fit fitting employed at joins or angles along this waste pipe.
Pressurising the water inside this pipe, which unlike air cannot compress, can easily force any push-fit joints apart …so beware!
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