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klrl (CA)
Hello all!
I am hoping someone can help me!
A few months ago, our toilet started flushing very slowly (weak). Pretty soon the bathtub was filling up and draining slowly. We had a professional plumber come out. He ran 100' of cable down the hole in the floor where the toilet sits (excuse my fabulous plumbing lingo) and found NOTHING. I must mention we do not have a cleanout in the yard, but we do have one outside the kitchen window. He ran the camera down, and again, saw nothing. He used a blow bag, and eventually cleared the mystery "clog". All was well until about a week ago, I noticed our toilet started flushing slowly, then eventually would act like it was going to flush, but would just fill up with water, then drain VERY slowly. The same with our tub. If we do the dishes, the tub fills. If we wash clothes, the tub fills... then drains VERRRRRRY slowly. We had a plumber come (AGAIN $$$$) and they did the same thing, snaked the toilet. This time 200', and found nothing. No roots, no clogs...nothing. After all of this the plumber put the toilet back on and left, without solving the problem, because "we did not have a cleanout plug". Although I am no master plumber I really don't see how the cleanout would help since he was able to run the 200' past our back fence. I am stumped. When I got home I tried flushing the tub with a blow bag. I opened the clean out outside of the kitchen window and all sorts of lovely things came out. I put the blow bag in the cleanout and the water would come up the tub (I had capped off the Ptrap under the kitchen sink). As I sit here with dirty hands, smelling of gray water, I hope that some plumbing angel will come to my rescue and HELP!!! Thank you.
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packy (MA)
did you get a video of the camera inspection?
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hj (AZ)
If you did have a video inspection, you would probably have seen that you DO have a cleanout outside. It is just buried at the depth of the pipe. I do not care how much snake he put in, you DO HAVE a stoppage, otherwise what you describe could NOT happen.
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klrl (CA)
Thank you! Had the city come out, they pulled their cleanout right behind my back fence and found the clog was on their side! It's all fixed and we are go.
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