Bathroom Fitting

Shower tray waterlogged / blocked plughole

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.33 PM

I have cleaned out all the visible hair and 'gunk' in the shower trap but this has made no difference to the blockage. I have looked at various YouTube videos on this plus asked a local shopkeeper about this problem and they are all indicating it is normal to have a plastic basket sitting underneath the trap that easily pulls out for cleaning. I do not appear to have one of these. Plus on closer inspection, the bottom of the plughole is not very deep and has a small gap/hole around the edge of the bottom for the water to get through. The shopkeeper insisted the long flexible metal rod was the answer but I said I thought it was too thick to get into the gap. I tried it and yes I was correct. It will not fit through. Then it dawned on me that perhaps, whoever fitted the shower, put the current shower tray on top of the old one, perhaps because the plughole was in the wrong place (e.g. 1.5ft away) and rather than take the old tray up and fix a new drainage pipe across to the other side, thought it quicker to do what they did. This means that the water has a small gap to fit through, runs down the old tray to the real plughole. I think there is a lot of hair and gunk sitting under the current shower tray blocking the route the water takes. Does this sound plausible? Is it a 'rip out' job and investigate?! I'd attach photos if I could as it is hard to describe what the plughole looks like when the trap is taken off.