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yooper01 (WI)
I have a 1986 Wick 16 by 66 ft. It sits on 5 acres with septic. Kitchen sink won't drain as of 2 days ago. Put down 25 ft snake. Hit nothing and pulled up nothing. Water never moved. Called plumber. He gave me a chemical to pour down. Strong stuff called Threft to put in. Did 3 doses of that. Water never moved. Bought 50 ft snake. Ran that in. Hit a wall or something at 35 ft. Bathroom and laundry drain fine. Getting septic pumped tomorrow, but doubt that it will make a difference since I had it pumped 11 months ago. Living rm, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom then bedroom layout on home. What the heck here?
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packy (MA)
sink drain to its own dry well?..
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hj (AZ)
Mobile homes are plumbed using their own version of the plumbing codes, so the problem could be any of a number of things, and some of them are not related to the sink drain itself.
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m & m (MD)
Most mobile homes are set up with bathrooms on far end of unit, kitchen on opposite end. The kitchen drain is installed in 1 1/2" pipe with minimum pitch. The best drain tool is a jetter for this but a snake will work. It is probably stopped with soft grease (usually). One, two, or three passes with a snake won't get the grease to move. Keep at it until you create a slurry of the grease. Eventually it will flow. Once it does, run a lot of hot water to remove as much residual as possible.
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hj (AZ)
the sink also usually has an AAV which will NOT allow the sink to drain if there is ANY stoppage, elsewhere in the system, even if everything else can drain properly.
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yooper01 (WI)
Never thought of a dry well. Bought this Hobby Farm 4 yrs ago. The septic tank top is 5 ft from the back of the trailer directly out from where the bathroom sits. On my deed and paperwork on the property I see nothing mentioned of a dry well. I did own an older farm house that had one previously. My sump pump ran to it. Some nice guys from the cable company decided to use a ditch witch to put a new line to my house. They cut the pipe in half to it to put the cable line in and flooded my basement. Good times.....
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