Be careful...if the stoppage is past a vent the vent may fill with water and you can end up with a vent full of water, the stoppage still there and no way to empty the line without flooding your home.
I have seen this with water pouring out a roof vent, the people thought the stoppage was clear, and what a mess they had when they removed the bladder.
I think now there was sanitary cross buried underground between the two showers. I have wondered if a professional plumber wouldn't have solved this problem right away with a drop head snake. But I don't have one and I'm not sure how well they work.
Dave, I don't use a drop head and find them all the time. You have to put a bend on the end of the cable and feel the drop. Sometimes you go up the vent and sometimes you go down. If you feel the cable pushing back you are going up and you need to pull it back and try again. Reversing rotation on the drum often helps find the right direction.
You were very lucky, I am guessing the weight /pressure of the water in the vent happened to be enough to dislodge the stoppage.
Cass....now that is something I
never thought of happenning...
pull out the bag and you get a full
3 inch explosion of sewage water blow back
into your home....
This sounds like obi-wan telling Luke to feel the force.
Thank you very much for the advice, although it sounds like the kind of advice where even if you know the trick you still don't have the skill to do it. This is the only place in the building where a sanitary cross is underground, but there are lots of them between kitchen sinks. In the past, I've removed the trap arm so that I could guide the snake to fix the problem. Maybe I could practice feeling the force on those before I go for trying to guide a snake though a hole that is underground and several feet away from the drain.
This is awkward, but...
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