LarryinAz
New Member
Dual bathroom sink clog (see pics at bottom).
Im a DIY'er but not much experience with plumbing.
I have a dual vanity and both sinks are slow to drain... but they do drain. I can run water in either for approx 30 seconds before it start's to back up into the sink bowl. When one backs up, shortly after, water runs up into the other.
Both P-traps are clean
I've tried to plunge them by blocking one sink's drain & overflow and then using the plunger on the opposite sink, but no luck. I admit, I didn't spend much time plunging because of the nasty/flakey looking buildup that was coming up.
For what it may be worth, the sink on left is rarely used.
I removed some drawers and found a cleanout between the two sinks... unfortunately, in an area where there's not a whole lot of room to manueaver around in.
My intentions are to go at this blockage with a snake.
My questions are as follows:
1. If I remove the cleanout cap, is there likely to be water in that section of plumbing that will leak out... unltimately ending up behind the drywall? Or has water likely drained below this point?
2. The vent pipe on the roof looks to line up with the pipe where the cleanout is. This house has a flat/low roof.... distance from cleanout to top of vent on roof might be 15' tops. Might the vent be the better access point to go about snaking?
Any thoughts, comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the great website and to those who contribute here!
I hope these pictures work. They're on flickr.
http://flic.kr/p/8ZFVq5
http://flic.kr/p/8ZCQJi
http://flic.kr/p/8ZCQHi
Im a DIY'er but not much experience with plumbing.
I have a dual vanity and both sinks are slow to drain... but they do drain. I can run water in either for approx 30 seconds before it start's to back up into the sink bowl. When one backs up, shortly after, water runs up into the other.
Both P-traps are clean
I've tried to plunge them by blocking one sink's drain & overflow and then using the plunger on the opposite sink, but no luck. I admit, I didn't spend much time plunging because of the nasty/flakey looking buildup that was coming up.
For what it may be worth, the sink on left is rarely used.
I removed some drawers and found a cleanout between the two sinks... unfortunately, in an area where there's not a whole lot of room to manueaver around in.
My intentions are to go at this blockage with a snake.
My questions are as follows:
1. If I remove the cleanout cap, is there likely to be water in that section of plumbing that will leak out... unltimately ending up behind the drywall? Or has water likely drained below this point?
2. The vent pipe on the roof looks to line up with the pipe where the cleanout is. This house has a flat/low roof.... distance from cleanout to top of vent on roof might be 15' tops. Might the vent be the better access point to go about snaking?
Any thoughts, comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the great website and to those who contribute here!
I hope these pictures work. They're on flickr.
http://flic.kr/p/8ZFVq5
http://flic.kr/p/8ZCQJi
http://flic.kr/p/8ZCQHi