Help! Blocked toilets

Neemey


Joined: 18/07/2009
Posts: 15

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 10:55

We bought a villa In Bellapais that's about 20 years old now. The toilets are not flushing properly any more and we have been told by a local friend that toilet tissue is causing a blockage. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem and what was done about it?

AndyP



Joined: 18/04/2008
Posts: 517

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 10:56

Lift up the manhole covers and have a look. Most of the time you can sort this yourself with a big stick or pipe.

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 10:58

Contact Cyprus Solutions on 0533 836 7094. They will not only unblock your drains, they can reform your system so that future blockages are avoided. This does not cost a lot of money.

Neemey


Joined: 18/07/2009
Posts: 15

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 11:30

Thanks for your advice guys.



Neemey

flightholiday


Joined: 19/07/2007
Posts: 3217

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 13:09

Neemey,



You probably have an older system and in the past on islands in the Med. you had a bin next to the toilet for tissue. You might do yourself a good service when the problem is sorted to start using one again nad ask all visitors etc to do so too.



The waste disposal is not well equiped for tissue and many other man made solids sanitary or otherwise.

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 15:29

For a quick simple way to unblock a toilet....take a mop and tie a plastic bag to the head, very tightly...then push the mop into the bowl and treat it like a plunger....if your toilet is blocked this method should unblock it...alternatively, you could make like a local and chuck a dead bird or rabbit in the bowl...apparently the bacteria released from dead animal should eat its way through the blockage...might be rather smelly though!!



DD

millzer


Joined: 12/04/2007
Posts: 978

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 15:45

Or even better, get ALL the builders to move into the 21st century and put in drainage that allows you to flush toilet paper. It's not rocket science and surely must be easier to fit modern preformed plastic inspection than have to keep making those sill concrete pits that stop the flow of the S*** along the pipe. The problem generally is not the size of the pipe, but these concrete pits.



See here (in the south) http://www.draintechcyprus.com/

millzer


Joined: 12/04/2007
Posts: 978

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 15:46

Sorry, I meant "plastic inspection CHAMBERS"

andrew4232



Joined: 04/07/2009
Posts: 1543

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 17:02

having lived in turkey for a few years i have got used to 'rinsing my bits' i see that the little water jets are in the toilet bowl but no one seems to connect them its very strange surely the less paper going down the pot will help this problem

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 18:13

Neemey

20 years without a problem? In NC? That rates as pretty good in my estimation.

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
29/07/2009 18:23

Go to your local supermarket and purchase 'deo net, tuz ruhu' Hold your nose and flush 30 mins. later!



Richard

basheer



Joined: 22/12/2008
Posts: 949

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 00:04

thanks will note number you never know when that's going to happen

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 00:24

It is a nightmare I agree. Keeping a bin and making visitors aware helps. but the mop trick works. I didnt knoe that the bidet pied do not work though. Oh it also helps to have mains water xxxxxx

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 08:10

Daisy Dukes



I love it, it's brilliant! We will always carry a dead rabbit around with us in future for the blocked toilets.



Our number is 0533 836 7094, just call us for problems with drains and lavatories.



John Webster, Cyprus Solutions.

NatAless



Joined: 31/03/2009
Posts: 789

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 08:56

on this island as in Goa, India you have to put toilet paper in a bin not down the toilet as otherwise they always get blocked!

Natx

TRNCVaughan


Joined: 27/04/2008
Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 09:13

I have spoken to John Webster about this in some detail and I have seen first hand the results after Cyprus Solutions have reformed the system. This is ideal for people who rent their villas out as you may be happy putting your used toilet paper in a bin but your UK guests may find this rather unpleasant and flush it anyway.

Once your drains are reformed dead rabbits, etc., will become a thing of the past.

happyhere


Joined: 11/05/2009
Posts: 75

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 09:40

Yes, we have used Nick from Cyprus Solutions. Very good and doesn't rip you off. His number is 0533 845 3935

Neemey


Joined: 18/07/2009
Posts: 15

Message Posted:
07/08/2009 00:23

Thanks to John & the boys at Cyprus Solutions for a great job on the loos. They even sorted out our leaking water tank free of charge! Highly recommended.

dreamer


Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 189

Message Posted:
07/08/2009 01:48

Hi Neemy



There is a new product out that will help prevent future blockages, its called Hydro-Kleen originaly designed to replace loo brushes, it can also be used to break down toilet tissue, using its powerfull jet of water it takes just a few seconds , saves on water as a second flush is not required, no more loo brush,no tissue bin no more germs!



hydro-kleen@live.com