Kempinger — #456 — Jetting a broken drain pipe in a difficult-to-reach location
Carsten (Kempinger Rohrreinigung Berlin @ YouTube; Kempinger GmbH) is in the mechanical room of a building where there is a blocked broken drain pipe in an awkward location behind some equipment. What appears to be wet wipes or paper towels are visible through the break in the pipe.
He removed a cleanout cover that’s in a segment of the drain pipe running along the wall next to the equipment that’s restricting access to the broken section of pipe. Once the cover is removed, he sends the high-pressure jetting hose up the line. This doesn’t seem to help disrupt the blockage, however. Even reaching the blockage is difficult due to the bends in the pipe.
Although it’s challenging to reach due to the equipment that is in the way, Carsten attempts to feed the jetter through the break in the pipe. Despite directly jetting the wipes or towels, they don’t break up. He fetches a long metal hook, and uses this to pull away some of the wipes or towels. This allows him better access for the jetting hose.
Back at the inspection opening he removed the lid from earlier, some wipes and sewage can be observed flowing past as he continues to jet through the break in the pipe. When sewage begins to back up out of the inspection opening, he does some more jetting from there. Soon enough, it begins to drain properly again. After some more jetting through the cleanout opening, he jets through the broken pipe some more.
With the blockage apparently cleared for the time being, he uses a jetting lance to try to clean up the area. While doing this, he demonstrates how the wet wipes don’t dissolve, even when directly jetted with the lance.