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How to clear blocked purple pipe lines

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Jayar
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Hi
We've been running grey water for a few years and intermittently opening the taps at the end of the purple lines to flush out accumulated gunk, but for one reason or another, we left it a bit long between flushes recently and two of our lines are quite blocked and need some tips on how best to clear them.

One will trickle out when the tap is fully open, the other doesnt have anything flush out. The other 2 of the four lines have water flowing freely when opened. Both of the blocked lines have had a 1m piece of thin bamboo inserted to full length to help clear them - one of them now runs at a trickle (as above) the other it made no difference.

Tips for clearing out the lines?
Cheers in advance!

Posted Sunday 2 Apr 2017 @ 1:14:56 am from IP #
bashworth
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Some ideas

You could try mains pressure water.

Some of those pressure washers also have a drain cleaning attachment that might fit up the pipe. (this is a small version of how commercial pipe cleaning works)

You can get some fairly aggressive pipe cleaning chemicals from a hardware store but you would need to keep the water away from your plants

Posted Sunday 2 Apr 2017 @ 4:17:30 am from IP #