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"Become a Plumber in Two Weeks" LOL, great. I wish I knew. It happened before we arrived on the scene, no doubt by the same general contractor who screwed stair rail into dry wall instead of bothering to find the studs. Re the vent, the short answer is I don't know. I get your point...

Thanks for weighing in. There's no clean out, and the toilets connect to each other with that 12' horizontal line, so attempts to snake it by pulling a toilet have not worked -- the snake just comes up into the other toilet. So, they've had to go up on the roof and snake through a vent (so, at...

Thanks for the quick response. I assume this is part of the plumbing code?

Hi All, I'm a plumbing neophyte having recurring blockages in two upstairs toilets that are connected to the same drain pipe and am wondering what the problem is. The toilets are about 12 feet apart and come together into another horizontal pipe with what I think is called a double elbow...