I just recently discovered that the vent on my roof was closed off- three years after our house was newly built. We had called the builders during the first year and complained about the lack of flush "power". They told us "Well, these new toilets use less water than we are used to and its normal to have to flush two or three times every once in a while. All the other vents were also closed during the first year and it wasn't until building my deck that I opened our dryer vent and had a faceful of lint!!!.
My question is this...Now that I have opened this vent our toilets flush fine but we also had another problem the last three years- Hot water runs out in the shower after 10 minutes EVEN THOUGH anywhere else in the house you can still run steaming hot water for minutes if you wanted. Why the dropoff to cold JUST in the shower...was this related to the vent being closed??
My question is this...Now that I have opened this vent our toilets flush fine but we also had another problem the last three years- Hot water runs out in the shower after 10 minutes EVEN THOUGH anywhere else in the house you can still run steaming hot water for minutes if you wanted. Why the dropoff to cold JUST in the shower...was this related to the vent being closed??