Revision flap in the bathtub base?

: If you hadn't been able to solve it with chemistry, you could have still cut out a tile, couldn't you? Was a "hole" left behind the tile in the masonry so that you can even "get in" after removing the tile? , how is it with you?

Is it going to be built with masonry? With us, the bathtub support is made of polystyrene.

We don’t have a polystyrene carrier for the tub. It gets "feet," I think it’s some kind of metal stand system. But you can’t tile on that, so in my opinion the base is built up with masonry. I even suspect it’s made of bricks, because other front walls in our place were done that way too. (Exterior walls made of expanded clay stone.)

Our bathtub was once clogged -

by what, if I may ask? Clogging is already a very rare phenomenon...

, how is it with you?

Also poly... or styro... . The material is completely tiled over. Honestly: I have absolutely no problem with that. I always found the revision hatches disgusting (back then in our apartments). Even with our current bathtub it would rather disturb the look. And such serious cases do not occur that often, so these hatches are probably increasingly being omitted by BUs or plumbing masters.

Here in the apartment, we often have the problem that the bathtub drain does not work properly. It is not completely clogged, but the water flows slowly and, if nothing is done, drains more and more slowly. We also have to regularly treat it with chemicals or a device that sends a small "compressed air blast" through it. There are still many apartments above us, and we are on the ground floor, maybe that's the reason. I can't think of anything we do ourselves with the bathtub that could cause these problems! I do not regularly pour paint residue into it, nor do I pour cleaning water with mud or stones into it. When we moved in and ran the washing machine for the first time, I found some pine needles in the adjacent bathtub afterwards. In my opinion, the washing machine must have pushed them up there when pumping out; I can't explain it otherwise.

My parents recently had a problem with the drains or the wastewater pipes in their 1970s house as well, but I think the blockage was located elsewhere there, and an inspection hatch would not have helped. My father fixed it again with a spiral in hours of work. If that had not worked, the wall would have had to be opened.

Morning

Regarding the inspection openings, I see it like with insurance; some people need it.....

From my professional experience regarding chemical use, I can say:
More helps.......... NO ...... it causes a lot of damage.
Various deformed drains that then function even worse are often the result.
Nothing beats manual pipe cleaning, and for blockage of individual drains, preferably with a vacuum-pressure cleaner.


Olli