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Chops (CA)
Hey guys, total plumbing newbie here hoping to confirm my problem. I am second floor in a 3 level condo with a neighbor above me and a garage below. Came home yesterday to find both my kitchen sinks full of water and they had overflowed significantly to the kitchen floor. It was a mess of foul smelling black gunk.
Luckily I was able to talk to my neighbors s right away who told me that they had been having alot of drain issues and had their landlord sent a plumber out.
According to this plumber he had to use 35 feet of snake to clear it.
It was as a lousy thing to come home to but I thought it was a one time or Jing. But since then I can hear water clearly flowing through pipes whenever they use their kitchen and at times its backing into me, however nowhere near as much as before. Still enough to come up partially though. The last time this happened I confirmed they had just run their dishwasher. The water was mostly clear however, no more gunk.
Is it safe to assume their plumber did not really clear the clog but merely pushed it w down really close to me? Is this a disaster waiting to happen. I'm pretty sure the washing machines have different drainage from kitchen right?
I'm hesitant to use even a liquid plumber. Since everything backs up so fast. I am curious if I should ask their plumbeer to revisit his work or if I should just bite the bullet and call my own.
As a total novice would getting one of those home snakes at home depot be too ambitious?
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packy (MA)
since their drain backs up into your sink, that means you share a common pipe. so the clog further down the pipe could have been caused by them, you or a combination of both of you.
getting a plumber to clean from your sink would be the next step. this will clean your portion plus the common portion of pipe. their portion has already been cleaned so this should solve the problem for both..
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Chops (CA)
Thanks. I'm hoping to have a family friend plumber come out but unfortunately he is not available weekends.
Update, neighbor and I were hoping at least water drains away slowly overnight but he did a test and his washing 2 dishes was enough to have water back into me... Ugh
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