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When a toilet freshener leaves a bad smell

Don’t Stick Things Inside Your Toilet Pans

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Plumbdog Rhyse is on the job today who was called out to investigate a blocked drain causing a blocked toilet.

This one is a short video but there’s so many key messages we want to share which we mention time and time again and can’t stress the importance for the benefit of our customers.

Inspection Point 

You would hear us barking about this all the time, but we can’t stress how important knowing where your inspection points are. You can see in the video that Rhyse had to really get his paws dirty (but what a neat job he’s done) getting under tiles and digging to gain access to the plumbing inspection point.

If you do not know the locations of your plumbing access points, the plumber would need to spend time sniffing them out as you would have seen in some of our previous videos.

The Cause of The Blocked Drain

A toilet freshener caused the blocked drain at the property today. This style of toilet freshener is commonly available from hardware stores to dollar shops and quite commonly found in homes across Perth and even throughout Australia.

There’s plenty of common causes of blocked drains in the bathroom from hair to build-up of soap scum and we see all sorts of objects being found being flushed down the toilet. Who would have guessed that something made for a toilet could be the cause of this plumbing issue.

Tips to help you Save Time & Money

Long Term Solutions

At properties like this, we will often recommend that you extend the inspection point to ground level especially if it falls within your budget. This extra expense now will help you save on time related expenses in the future with any plumbing issues in the same area as the plumber will not have to spend time unnecessarily digging and replacing dirt and tiles.

Furthermore, if planning home improvements, renovations, extensions, do not overlook your inspection points and plumbing. A short term saving could become a more costly expense in the future.

Don’t Stick Things Inside Your Toilet Pan

You heard our Plumbdog say it in the video. If you are going to use these items, be aware that they can and do break or fall off and can be the cause of a plumbing issue costing much more to fix than what the actual item is worth.

When it comes to blocked toilets, we have the nose and skills to sniff out and fix any plumbing issues. If you’re in the Greater Perth, give us a whistle!

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It’s Rhyse from Plumbdog here, just out in the Applecross.

At the moment, we’ve got a sunny pro pump here, a macerator. It isn’t working. So we’re going to put a new one in. And as you can see, we don’t have a lot of room to work with. So let’s see how interesting and awkward this gets.

Beautiful.

Can’t see anything dripping or leaking? Let’s see how much of a flight she puts up. I had an issue with the leak down here. As you can see, the pan’s seal – it’s gone. It’s getting nice and cracked. Just looking in here it looks like somebody’s tried to fix this before.

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• Sometimes a ‘simple’ problem isn’t as simple as it may seem
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We were called out just for a blocked bathtub plumbing issue, the usual suspect would have been tree roots but after attempting drain cleaning with the high pressure water jetter and CCTV, it became clear that something unusual was going on.

Doing what Plumbdogs Do Best – Digging!

Darius digs his way to the waste pipe and shows us the problem area. If you’ve seen some of our other VLOGs, you would have seen the great work that Darius does. He completes jobs with minimal disruption to properties and if you look closely, the space that he works in is barely big enough to fit a power tool but he gets the job done and gets it done well.

Not Just a Tree Roots

This is a perfect example of things that could go wrong with the plumbing causing a blocked bathtub. It wasn’t blocked tree roots on this occasion, the waste pipe had completely come away from the bath waste.  The client reports that they have been at the property for around 4 years and have had this problem since they first moved in and it’s now clear why.

Perth’s Maintenance Plumbing Experts

Blocked drains are one of our specialist services and you can see why. It’s not uncommon that for detection whether leak detection or detecting blocked drains another specialist is called out for assistance. Our Plumbdogs are pedigree! Aside from the plumbing knowledge that Darius already has, check out the quality of the plumbing work.

All The Gear and Every Idea!

This video is the perfect example when a plumber is more than just a plumber. We’ve had out CCTV, our high powered water jetter, power tools, he’s got his paws dirty digging, concreting and getting some actual plumbing in all while showing us what goes on behind the scenes. This is why we say we have All The Gear and Every Idea!

If you’re in the greater Perth area and have any blocked drain issues or plumbing needs, give us a whistle!

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Would you believe not long after one of our top dogs Richard posted his first video about funniest thing found in a blocked drain, he got called out to another property that took the doggy treat

• When you’ve been a Perth Plumber for a while, you never stop getting surprised with what you can find in a blocked drain
• See how efficient it is using CCTV to inspect problem areas.
•  We have all the gear and every idea. Can you guess what we found blocking the drain on this job?
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Kitchen & Laundry Plumbing Issues
We were called out to a property in Beeliar, WA on this occasion and with blocked drains being our specialty, we sniffed out immediately that something was a stray.

Water from the kitchen and laundry were backing up immediately and sewerage water was leaking out of the overflow gully at the back of the kitchen window. Where we sniffed that something wasn’t right was that the rest of the house was functioning perfectly normally with water draining without any issues.

All The Gear & Every Idea
At Plumbdog we have all the gear and every idea especially when it comes to blocked drains and here’s why. In the video you’ll see:

• High Powered Water Jetter – Our water jetters are custom made locally with extra power and if you’ve watched our videos before, you’ll know that we can clear drains with our jetters that others can’t.
• CCTV Drain Inspections – Using CCTV for inspecting drains is a great way of confirming that the job is complete and done.
• Plunging – Yes other plumbers plunge as well but do they do it right and then do they go the next step to adequately clean and clear the pathway to really allow all of the debris to clear? Quite often if all you do is plunge, all you do is dislodge the current problem area but push the problem further down the pipe which means the problem comes back down the track.

Hire a Proper Plumber
If simply hired anyone to do the job, they may have stopped at the first few discovered items where this blocked drain issue could have quickly become a recurring problem. As you can see in the video the water starts to go down quite normally after Richard removed some debris blocking the drains. If he didn’t pull out the CCTV, there may have been more down the pipe undetected.

Whistle and We Will Come!
As a household name for plumbing in Perth, we want to get called over and over again by our customers but not for the same problem. That’s why we provide our customers with long term solutions and pride ourselves for having all the gear and every idea. If you’re in the greater Perth area, give us a whistle!

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