I'll try and keep this brief while giving you all the important details. My double kitchen sink is completely clogged on both sides. It won't drain at all. Unfortunately, whoever installed the plumbing completely half-assed it:
Everything you see has been cemented together, so I decided to cut into the pipe and get an auger into it to try and clear the clog:
I can get the auger to make it through the very first T-pipe and go down, but when I hit the second corner, the auger refuses to turn and instead just goes back up the wrong side of the pipe. I've done my best to illustrate the problem:
This is what the drain pipe looks like in the crawlspace underneath the kitchen sink:
This is roughly my method for trying to make the turn according to sources that I've found online:
1) When I hit the bend, back up the auger ~1" and lock the auger ~6" from the pipe opening
2) Rotate the drum one revolution
3) Begin slowly pushing the auger further into the pipe while rotating the drum (I've tried rotating at different speeds)
4) Once it goes in, unlock the auger to give myself ~6" more slack and lock it again
5) repeat step 3
At this point I take a look in the pipe and can see that it didn't actually turn the corner, it just gets bunched up in the pipe as pictured above. Continuing to push the auger into the pipe just cause it to keep looping back and forth in that section of the pipe. I'm no plumber, so can someone explain to me what I'm doing wrong here. I believe the drain pipe in 2" and the drain auger that I am using is 1/4". Specifically, this one: BrassCraft 1/4in x 20ft Pistol Grip Drum Auger. Do I just need to get a thicker auger?
Everything you see has been cemented together, so I decided to cut into the pipe and get an auger into it to try and clear the clog:
I can get the auger to make it through the very first T-pipe and go down, but when I hit the second corner, the auger refuses to turn and instead just goes back up the wrong side of the pipe. I've done my best to illustrate the problem:
This is what the drain pipe looks like in the crawlspace underneath the kitchen sink:
This is roughly my method for trying to make the turn according to sources that I've found online:
1) When I hit the bend, back up the auger ~1" and lock the auger ~6" from the pipe opening
2) Rotate the drum one revolution
3) Begin slowly pushing the auger further into the pipe while rotating the drum (I've tried rotating at different speeds)
4) Once it goes in, unlock the auger to give myself ~6" more slack and lock it again
5) repeat step 3
At this point I take a look in the pipe and can see that it didn't actually turn the corner, it just gets bunched up in the pipe as pictured above. Continuing to push the auger into the pipe just cause it to keep looping back and forth in that section of the pipe. I'm no plumber, so can someone explain to me what I'm doing wrong here. I believe the drain pipe in 2" and the drain auger that I am using is 1/4". Specifically, this one: BrassCraft 1/4in x 20ft Pistol Grip Drum Auger. Do I just need to get a thicker auger?
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