I live in a Council property and the pluming is terrible and has been for years. The kitchen sink is always getting blocked, I don’t pour fat down it or anything like that and the U bend is always clear when I check it so the blockage happens further down. I also get no hot water in the kitchen I only get hot water in the bathroom and its been like this for years because the council don’t want to spend money to sort it out. They normally come around and unblock the pipe but its only ever temporary because the piping would be hard and expensive to renew. Having no hot water in the kitchen adds to the problem.

I could fix the problem myself by fitting a new pipe and running it from the hot water pipe in the bathroom into the kitchen to the tap then isolate the old pipe then for drainage maybe I can buy a long waste pipe and have it going through the bathroom wall and connect it to the toilet pipe somehow. This would sort the problem, the council wont do it but I could.

I could go down some legal routes to get the council to fix the problem once and for all but there is an issue with this. Last year the council received a grant to rip out kitchens and bathrooms and fit new ones “no mention of fitting a decent pluming system tho” Anyway they showed me this booklet of there new bathrooms and kitchens and they all looked cheap, plain and soulless. I have a Victorian kitchen and bathroom with nice old tiles, old Victorian bath taps and very nice old bits in general that a lot of people would pay good money for. I don’t want the council ripping all that out for some cheap modern rubbish so they kinda have me by the balls if take the issue of the repair above to far because I could end up shooting myself in the foot.

What would you do in this situation?