Melissa2007B
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We had this UBC ( universal building codes ) modular home put on a lot in late 2004 and have been living here since 2005. Every year or two, the plumbing backs up, and drives us crazy, and we have to pay for a nice rooter guy, who already knows our house because he's been out so many times, like $150 to come out and root it so it will be good for another year or two.
We're in the Denver area and it often happens when the water turns colder, around September or October, and I think I've noticed, when the washing machine is draining.
I had a guy go in the crawl space and try to figure it out, a few years ago, but it's difficult because the bottom of the house is still covered in insulation and plastic sheeting, as if it was to be put down on a mobile home base, instead of a foundation like we did. But he sort of told me how to sketch the following diagram, which I did in AutoCAD, because I basically know it and have an old version, and did a drawing of the house anyway, before it was build, so I could plan things.
That guy told me that appears that the U shaped section on the center right, was originally supposed to exit to the sewer, IF it had been put on a mobile home base, but instead, it exits all the way at the bottom there.
But he really thought the clog may be happening where that bottom bathroom exits into the main line at a 45 degree angle, instead of a curve?
But Saturday, it was like a sewer backup, all of a sudden. I heard sounds like a rapid poing..poing..poing..poing.. and then all 3 toilets went up to the top, all at once ( this was while the washer was draining, if I recall - no one was using the bathrooms ), AND my tub, at the top end there, sort of exploded black stuff all over the bottom. All 3 toilets stayed at the top for about 10 minutes, then they all drained at once and worked after that, so we thought everything was OK.
Then Saturday night, I was showering in that top bath, and heard glug glug glug in the toilet next to me, and it went up, the next time I flushed it. So I was about to call the snake guy, but it went down in awhile, and everything was working again, until this morning, when that same toilet went up again and took another 10 minutes to go down and work again. So I have a call in, to the rooter guy now. <SIGH>
So my questions are: Do we need to spend a lot of money to get the plumbing rerouted, to fix this mess? We're low income and just don't have it. And I'm 66 years old and cant get into crawl spaces, and don't know how to do it myself anyway, even if there wasn't plastic sheeting and insulation under there. Very frustrated, in Denver.
We're in the Denver area and it often happens when the water turns colder, around September or October, and I think I've noticed, when the washing machine is draining.
I had a guy go in the crawl space and try to figure it out, a few years ago, but it's difficult because the bottom of the house is still covered in insulation and plastic sheeting, as if it was to be put down on a mobile home base, instead of a foundation like we did. But he sort of told me how to sketch the following diagram, which I did in AutoCAD, because I basically know it and have an old version, and did a drawing of the house anyway, before it was build, so I could plan things.
That guy told me that appears that the U shaped section on the center right, was originally supposed to exit to the sewer, IF it had been put on a mobile home base, but instead, it exits all the way at the bottom there.
But he really thought the clog may be happening where that bottom bathroom exits into the main line at a 45 degree angle, instead of a curve?
But Saturday, it was like a sewer backup, all of a sudden. I heard sounds like a rapid poing..poing..poing..poing.. and then all 3 toilets went up to the top, all at once ( this was while the washer was draining, if I recall - no one was using the bathrooms ), AND my tub, at the top end there, sort of exploded black stuff all over the bottom. All 3 toilets stayed at the top for about 10 minutes, then they all drained at once and worked after that, so we thought everything was OK.
Then Saturday night, I was showering in that top bath, and heard glug glug glug in the toilet next to me, and it went up, the next time I flushed it. So I was about to call the snake guy, but it went down in awhile, and everything was working again, until this morning, when that same toilet went up again and took another 10 minutes to go down and work again. So I have a call in, to the rooter guy now. <SIGH>
So my questions are: Do we need to spend a lot of money to get the plumbing rerouted, to fix this mess? We're low income and just don't have it. And I'm 66 years old and cant get into crawl spaces, and don't know how to do it myself anyway, even if there wasn't plastic sheeting and insulation under there. Very frustrated, in Denver.