Plugged up drain

[CopperNick]

Your wife have long hair or wear fuzzy sweaters?? Cause it sounds like you might have a hair or lint block going on in the laundry drain. A combination of hair and lint with a little dirty laundry soap thrown in as a binder can make for a real solid cork in the pipe once it hardens. Drain pipes are supposed to be be installed at a down angle of so many inches per section of pipe length. Makes them drain correctly which is supposed to keep blockage from forming.

While your snake worked to find the block, what a plumber uses is a motorized version of that which has a cable about 100' long and comes with various interchangeable heads to deal with whatever is doing the plugging. And don't think of hair solely as well. You could be dealing with tree roots because they love to infiltrate the sh*t pipes and lunch on the outflow; all kinds of nutrients in that soup for them!!

If you have a rental center close by you might want to investigate renting an electrical powered plumbers snake. Do be aware that if you damage it, they charge you, and snaking a DWV pipe is a messy dirty smelly shitty job. Compare rent vs per/hr specialist to see which is cheapest/best job of it.



Nick

 

[wonderboy24]

dont use any chemicals. especially thrift. that stuff is dangerous. i am a residential plumber. call someone have them cable the line.then ditch the disposal. 90 percent of time i go on a clogged sink line its do to the disposal. i have been in my house for 23 years dont have a disposal and kitchen sink has never had a problem with being plugged.i see you said you had a plumber come out and only had 25 cable. hmmmmm he must not know how to use his machine.if we were in the same area. i would help you out. chemicals dont help. you need the right person to get the line opened.

 

[303'505rollin]

If you can find this

 

[fleming442]

Hot water seems easy enough

 

[Ribbedroof]

It took a few years, but I managed to teach the Mrs. that garbage cans are for garbage, and sinks are for liquids. We don't have a disposal at our current house, and seldom used the one at our previous house after her "education".

 

[UNGN]

If the Washing machine drains to the same pipe it could be a composite of cotton fibers and egg shells. Good thing you didn't mention toilets backing up.

 

[CopperNick]

Well, now you know that your blockage is further down the pipe than 25'. It is beginning to sound to me like you have tree roots in your sewer pipe between the house and the septic tank. Had that issue over a decade or more ago, and it took repeated visits by the city with an industrial roto-rooting machine to drill out the root mass that had infiltrated the pipe. They finally used a cable attachment that looked like a pair of saw blades wound in a spiral circle and with that they cut away a huge amount of root mass that had been feeding on the sewage. Come to find out that the small heads and snake cables weren't cutting away and clearing out the blockage, they were only poking holes in it which would promptly close up again almost as soon as the snake cable was withdrawn.

The only permanent cure is to replace the sewer line with a civilian or commercial version of the new PVC stuff that cities use. It has a special type of seal embedded in the bell end that, when the spigot is inserted, creates a connection that roots have a hard time invading and penetrating.



Nick

 

[Jorge1958]

Well, now you know that your blockage is further down the pipe than 25'. It is beginning to sound to me like you have tree roots in your sewer pipe between the house and the septic tank. Had that issue over a decade or more ago, and it took repeated visits by the city with an industrial roto-rooting machine to drill out the root mass that had infiltrated the pipe. They finally used a cable attachment that looked like a pair of saw blades wound in a spiral circle and with that they cut away a huge amount of root mass that had been feeding on the sewage. Come to find out that the small heads and snake cables weren't cutting away and clearing out the blockage, they were only poking holes in it which would promptly close up again almost as soon as the snake cable was withdrawn.

The only permanent cure is to replace the sewer line with a civilian or commercial version of the new PVC stuff that cities use. It has a special type of seal embedded in the bell end that, when the spigot is inserted, creates a connection that roots have a hard time invading and penetrating.



Nick

Well. My wife manages a local ACE Hardware store. So i had her bring (buy) me a 50ft manual snake home last night. This morning i ran that baby down the drain pipe and it actually worked good. After i got 33ft down the drain ( i measured how much i had left when i hit the obstruction) i hit an obstruction worked the snake back and forth for a few till it was gone. That was as far as it would let me go. I think there is a sharp turn there or something so i removed it. Hooked the pipe back up and turned on the water. Obstruction gone. Drains perfect now.

 

[Bonnewagon]

Glad you got it flowing. FWIW I installed a 45° angle 4" clean-out in my basement floor right before the waste pipe goes under the foundation wall. Any clogs between me and the street sewer I can send a snake right out and bang it open. It is usually about half way to the street. I hardly ever get a clog inside unless it's the wifey who SWEARS she doesn't cut her hair in the bathroom sink. Right. And always make sure the vents are open and clear. If not vented the water flows so slowly the roots detect it and close in for the kill. Properly vented the water goes by so fast the roots go "Huh? What was that?.

 

[Jorge1958]

Glad you got it flowing. FWIW I installed a 45° angle 4" clean-out in my basement floor right before the waste pipe goes under the foundation wall. Any clogs between me and the street sewer I can send a snake right out and bang it open. It is usually about half way to the street. I hardly ever get a clog inside unless it's the wifey who SWEARS she doesn't cut her hair in the bathroom sink. Right. And always make sure the vents are open and clear. If not vented the water flows so slowly the roots detect it and close in for the kill. Properly vented the water goes by so fast the roots go "Huh? What was that?.

For sure. Its interesting that my showers, toilets and bathroom sinks are built on 1 side of the home and kitchen and laundry are on the other side as the plumber showed me. Life in a mobile home i guess. I