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rainmouse
Hi there, sorry for the long post. We are getting desperate here and could use some advice. 
For about 5 weeks now the kitchen sink has been blocked which means we cannot use the washing machine or obviously the kitchen sink (we have to wash dishes in the bathtub which hurts our backs). We tried a plunger, caustic soda and Mr muscle foam unblocker and a 6 meter snake thing (it goes all the way in but doesn't hit the block) but asked the neighbours and none of them have blocked sinks. Our letting agency eventually sent out someone from Paragon Trade Services Has the Reliable Edinburgh Plumbers You Can Trust We tell him they probably need to use pressure to unblock it. He had no tools and had to borrow our plunger and snake, then flooded the kitchen running the taps, burned his hands on the caustic soda we put in days before but did warn him about, then said the problem was in the main pipe and went away again saying he had to talk to the agency about it.
He comes back almost three weeks later after repeated calls to agency and paragon-trade-services with a can of yellow goo. I again advise him that they need to use pressure or something to unblock it (but I'm not a plumber, what do I know) and we already tried corrosive chemicals, more will probably damage the pipe, besides the block is far away and the pipes are still full of now very stagnant water (its a complete blockage that doesn't seem to drain away much). He advises me that this stuff will work and that he will inject it directly into the blockage, interesting proposition from a guy who still has no tools. Well I was late for work so I had to leave but my partner was in the other room. She said he was rummaging through our belongings looking for tools then he just pours this yellow crap in the sink and fumigates the whole flat, it stinks and that was ten hours ago.
Kitchen is now utterly unusuable for food and my girlfriend has been sick from the smell. Guy left the flat a few minutes after catching a whiff of the smell claiming its again a block in the main pipe and that they need to 'jet it'. I'm assuming to 'jet it' means use some kind of pressure like I originally suggested to them over the phone? Is this guy a real plumber or just some bum-hat in off the street to get out of the cold and charge a fee for it? Can anyone advise what we should do?
For about 5 weeks now the kitchen sink has been blocked which means we cannot use the washing machine or obviously the kitchen sink (we have to wash dishes in the bathtub which hurts our backs). We tried a plunger, caustic soda and Mr muscle foam unblocker and a 6 meter snake thing (it goes all the way in but doesn't hit the block) but asked the neighbours and none of them have blocked sinks. Our letting agency eventually sent out someone from Paragon Trade Services Has the Reliable Edinburgh Plumbers You Can Trust We tell him they probably need to use pressure to unblock it. He had no tools and had to borrow our plunger and snake, then flooded the kitchen running the taps, burned his hands on the caustic soda we put in days before but did warn him about, then said the problem was in the main pipe and went away again saying he had to talk to the agency about it.
He comes back almost three weeks later after repeated calls to agency and paragon-trade-services with a can of yellow goo. I again advise him that they need to use pressure or something to unblock it (but I'm not a plumber, what do I know) and we already tried corrosive chemicals, more will probably damage the pipe, besides the block is far away and the pipes are still full of now very stagnant water (its a complete blockage that doesn't seem to drain away much). He advises me that this stuff will work and that he will inject it directly into the blockage, interesting proposition from a guy who still has no tools. Well I was late for work so I had to leave but my partner was in the other room. She said he was rummaging through our belongings looking for tools then he just pours this yellow crap in the sink and fumigates the whole flat, it stinks and that was ten hours ago.
Kitchen is now utterly unusuable for food and my girlfriend has been sick from the smell. Guy left the flat a few minutes after catching a whiff of the smell claiming its again a block in the main pipe and that they need to 'jet it'. I'm assuming to 'jet it' means use some kind of pressure like I originally suggested to them over the phone? Is this guy a real plumber or just some bum-hat in off the street to get out of the cold and charge a fee for it? Can anyone advise what we should do?
