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Ok here goes. I have a 3 story home with a bathroom on each floor and all are above each other which I assume that means they are on a shared drain line and vent stack. I'm having a devil of a time figuring out what the real issue is that's troubling the toilets. I keep thinking I have a venting...

First a little background - We live in a house that is approximately 130 years old. The basement contains 3 "drains" and an unused cistern that is no longer hooked up to anything. One of the drains was doing nothing when we took on a bit of water a few years ago in the one corner of our...

Hello, I have a kitchen sink that is clogging on both the right and left sides. I'm a woman and I don't know the correct terms for all the plumbing, however, I do know how to take apart the plumbing under the sink and put it back together and how to snake the pipes. So I took it apart at the...

Clogging and plunging a toilet is a frequent problem for me. I can't seem to avoid it. I have narrowed down my search to the following toilets: American Standard Champion 4 (1.6 GPF) TOTO Ultramax (1.6 GPF) TOTO Ultramax 2 (1.28 GPF) TOTO Aquia (.9/1.6 GPF) One would assume that the higher GPF...

My toilet and shower is 6 feet apart from each other. I also have a separate tub and two sinks in the bathroom. If the shower is running and then I flush the toilet, the water slowly comes to the top but doesn't overflow. This has been going on for over a year. I would think if it's a...

My kitchen sink and dishwasher are getting little hot water with very little pressure. The faucet is a single handle faucet and the pressure reduces dramatically when pushing the handle to hot. The dishwasher is only about 2-3 months old has worked fine until now. A little water trickles thru...

I have an old cast iron tub that fills up with water and drains very slowly when the shower is on. It has an old style cleanout outside the tub as shown in these pictures: https://imgur.com/a/1U0qm When the cleanout is in the fully closed, normal position the tub does not drain. As soon as I...

My son flushed the disposable brush part of a toilet scrubber that was about 2 inches in diameter. Our toilet was mostly clogged and slowly flushing for a day. However, now it is flushing fine. Do I need to do anything at this point?

Forgive my lack of terminology, I am only just starting to get into DIY repair. attached here I've drawn a diagram of the problem my plan is to first run a 25ft auger through the drain. however I suspect that the problem might be a little bigger than a simple blockage. in that case, I'd have...

Plumbing Novice here! I run a large networks of daycares in a large city. Even if we do not provide wipes in the bathrooms and changing tables, nannies and moms still throw wipes and whole diapers down the drain. Pipes at many of the locations are constantly ruined, overflowing, or causing...

I'm at a loss. I am on the verge of calling out a plumber but wasn't really wanting to resort to that since money is tight. Our kitchen sink has started to drain extremely slow. Our bathroom sink, toilet and washer are all fine. The sink and dishwasher seem to be the only things having a...

I'm having an issue with a clog, and just can't wrap my head around what the issue could be. My kitchen sink on my upper floor has given me trouble for quite a while. I had a 25 foot pipe snake that I could use with a drill, and stuck it in the vent pipe from the roof, and that seemed to help...

The toilet in our house constantly is clogging even with modest amounts of solid waste. Once it clogs it takes a plumber to unclog it. Assuming that it is not something like roots in the pipes (the plumbers so far said no) is there a toilet on the market that will flush "no matter what"? This...

Hi All, I am installing a new shower using the not so old existing PVC P trap. The P trap is in the perfect position so I am able to tie into it with no issues. However I found the P trap contained lots of debris. The usual hair which I cleaned out but I also found a significant amount of...

Hi all, New to the forum. We have two toilets at home. One doesn't flush well (does this gurgling/bubbling thing) and one used to work. The city flooded for a couple of days and now neither toilets work. The water still "drains", no actual flushing. It goes down VERY slowly. We have recently...

i have a double sink. The left side has my garbage disposal and the right a sink. I also have a dishwasher left of my disposal. A couple of days ago I noticed that the water took a long time to drain and when I ran my disposal the right side sink would fill up. I assume is a partial blockage...

New to the forum and looking for help and advice! Thanks in advance When running my dishwasher, it would often and most times leave water behind in the bottom. It would take hours if not a whole day for that few inches of water to go away. I proceeded to examine and found that my drain pipe...

Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum and I'm having a plumbing nightmare. I just bought this mobile home about 6 months ago. Recently someone pointed out to me that the washer was draining underneath the house. I didn't notice because I barely ever go on that side of the house where the water was...

I have an LG washer an get an IE code quite often, which requires that I clean the cold side inlet screen, which is difficult to get to. We have private well water, and mostly run the washer using cold water. Any good solution for this? inline filter perhaps By the way I have separate PEX...