due to an enormous amount of rain in a short period the storm water entered via the laundry drain and flooded my house it is the first time after livi ...

Thank you Noyade for your indepth reply. Yes, being able to open and close the drain lid would be ideal. I will give some thought as to how I can manu ...

thanks for the reply Dave, the house was built in 1995, so perhaps the rules were different back then as for the glue, I need something strong enough ...

a huge amount of water came into the house, so any plug would need to be fail proof and ideally removable if required disconnecting the pipe is our la ...

thanks again, yes the plumber assured me I can do this without compromising regulations at present I am considering inserting an appropriately sized p ...

thanks Mitchell my plumber came to the property and inspected the drains his advice was to permanently plug the laundry drain and said that doing so ...

@Nailbag the wire drill brush turned out to be the perfect solution, I cleaned 12 sq.m of cement covered cobbles in about 4hrsprior to this I had spe ...