One for the apprentices

Have em try this:

Thomas Prufer

Fireproof fingers

Its not funny, my daughter went on a soldering course and did exactly that the first time she had to use a soldering iron, she was about eight at the time.

She still went on to do some brick laying and plumb in a sink while there.

I can see where she gets her brains from.

I taught our daughter to solder (safely) when she was about 6 (much to her Mums dismay / disbelief when daughter told her when she came in) and she has carried on and made projects since then. We still use daily the 'Kitchen Timer' she made years ago. ;-)

She recently treated herself to a pretty professional pyrography kit so I wonder if her junior soldering took her that way?

That was handy. ;-)

Mine (now 25) asked me recently if I could show her how to clear all the pipework from the bath and hand basin. Someone needs to know how to do it when I'm gone and it's not my hair blocking it up. ;-(

It should be funny because whilst she seems able to shovel a flattened animal off the public highway, she gags at the content of a well used drain. ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Caustic soda?

Or did you teach her how to use a proper plunger to pull all the cr@p back up into the sink?

She knows what she has put down there!

I don't know that I've ever had much success with *any* chemical solution.

Nope, not that either, it will probably be a strip down of all the plumbing from the trap back as far as necessary (all removable plastic) and to clean it out properly. ;-)

I'm not sure she does ...

Cheers, T i m

En el artículo , ARW escribió:

:)

The problem is getting any chemical actually in contact with the blockage.

That did make me laugh.

Quite, so nothing like having the pipes out and in the sink and washed out properly. ;-)

The longest pipe run goes under the corner bath and terminates in an access point that has a removable lid for cleaning / rodding etc. I fitted that directly under the corner seat of the bath so that if I had to at any time I could cut a hole in the seat and fit an watertight access hatch etc.

Cheers, T i m