"glugging sink

[jackieboo]

Hi I've just moved to a new house (14 years old) after living in older houses since 1977.

In the en-suite there is a stainless steel round sink with push up plug, when the water is let out it runs out ok but makes a glugging noise now and again forquite a while.

I have tried Buster etc and there are no smells. There is also a loo and shower which are behaving well so far.

Am I just being paranoid and 'looking' for problems after living in homes where we have had major, major plumbing heating and drain problems before.

I am concerned as I don't want to be worrying about this sort of thing any more and was so determined to be more chilled out living in a modern house. I am also puzzled about 'hidden' sewer pipes and the like in newer houses - how do you get to a blockage and where are the soil stack vents to let drain smells out like on the side of older houses?

confused of Surrey............(fsmile)

Mine goes glug glug glug a bit when a basinful of water goes down; it has a bottletrap drainpipe, not an open U-bend thing, might that be why if yours is the same?

Soil pipes are inside the cavity wall I think - the top vent part might stick out of the roof?

I think I may have that type of pipe then - no visible u bend thingy - will just have to get used to it. I almost had a nervous breakdown living in our last house over next doors' drains etc and weird old plumbing.

There are no vent pipes sticking out of any of the houses on this estate - it just seems weird to me after living in old fashioned homes.

I'll just have to chill more - it's been a roller coaster since moving in as we work from home and other half has hardly been here and as for the dark mornings....arghhhh

This is one of the reasons I am nevernevernever going to move - I am sooo familiar with our house's foibles - like St Caitlin, I will be carried out in a box (cardboard in my case )

Hope your house is kind to you anyway!