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Message: [QUOTE="Sean Regan, post: 181486, member: 5841"] We've been struggling for a week with a very slow drain below the kitchen window. The sink, dishwasher and washing machine, plus rain from the back of the house and the baisin in the garage all empty into this. So it was overflowing every now and again. I suspected some wisteria leaves and moss of the roof had got down there. No amounts of buckets of water chucked down it and neither a whole carton of drain cleaner improved the flow. There was no plunger available for that size of drain. It's a pot one with a diameter of six inches. Most key terrain pipe work is now 4". So I decided to make a plunger out of some plywood and some duct tape wrapped round it to improve the seal. I was pretty sure there was no earth or anything that could get further compacted in the pipe, so I gave it a go today. As it had a very good seal, filling up the drain and ramming this down forcing about a gallon of water down the pipe every time, cleared it after a few goes. [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1030483.JPG"]59797[/ATTACH] It would have cost about £100 to get someone in to do it, so I was quite pleased with myself. Our five quid lights from Wilko look quite good. [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1030484.JPG"]59798[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]