How to fix a stopped up drain HK style pt 2

Here's the follow up on my drain pipe situation!

A week after diagnosing the problem they came back to replace the offending pipe.

The problem is that they needed to do work from the outside of the building. To avoid dropping things on ppl's heads that meant setting up some temporary scaffolding. Since this is HK, scaffolding is usually bamboo poles tied together with nylon string.

So at 9:30 am the bamboo guys came in and quickly set up outside my window.

Then the contractor cut off the stopped up pipe. Completely removing the pipe would have meant tearing our a sizable piece of wall under my kitchen counter, so instead they just drilled a new hole in the wall and put in an extension to the main drain line.

The whole thing only took about 2 hours. Later that afternoon the bamboo guys came back and took out the scaffolding. Quite efficient!

The best part was that my landlord paid for the whole thing. Glad they didn't try to claim my pancakes, cereal and spaghetti were causing the pipe to be irreversibly clogged!
:-D