JTK
New Member
Hey everybody,
I've done some searching on the clog threads, but i am not finding anything quite like this problem. We have a bathroom in the basement of our ranch style house. There is a bathroom in the basement, positioned close to the stack. The shower and toilet are draining fine, but the sink is not. It had been draining very slowly, so i decided to disassemble the p-trap and clean it out, along with the shot vertical drain run from the sink. All clear, hook it back up, now it doesn't drain AT ALL!
OK, take apart the P-trap again, now it's time to hand-auger the horizontal run that disappears into the wall (and presumably into the stack, which is right there). I get at least 15-20 feet of the snake to disappear into the pipe, pull it out expecting a bunch of goop, but NOTHING!
OK, time to auger some more, another 15-20 feet of snake, met resistance a couple of times and was able to crank the auger and keep going. Pull it out again. See the smallest bit of hair on the end, but nothing big. Reassemble p-trap and drainpipe. Run the water - STILL CLOGGED.
Try plunger - STILL CLOGGED.
Disassemble p-trap to drain water, empty the P-tram and horizontal and vertical runs as far as i can reach.
Reassemble p-trap and drain. Run warm water. CLOGGED AND PRETTY MUCH NO DRAINAGE after only a few cups of water.
Seems impossible to get my head around the situation, as there seems to be a clog kicking in for the most minimal amount of water even when i can snake tens of feet. It doesn't seem like i'm even running enough water to fill the pipe that i KNOW is clear, much less the rest of the distance where the snake is going. Like, a couple of cups of water and the drain is COMPLETELY CLOGGED. Maybe drains at a rate of less than 1 CUP of water per hour.
This is BAFFLING to me. Any thoughts would be most appreciated.
Regards,
JTK
I've done some searching on the clog threads, but i am not finding anything quite like this problem. We have a bathroom in the basement of our ranch style house. There is a bathroom in the basement, positioned close to the stack. The shower and toilet are draining fine, but the sink is not. It had been draining very slowly, so i decided to disassemble the p-trap and clean it out, along with the shot vertical drain run from the sink. All clear, hook it back up, now it doesn't drain AT ALL!
OK, take apart the P-trap again, now it's time to hand-auger the horizontal run that disappears into the wall (and presumably into the stack, which is right there). I get at least 15-20 feet of the snake to disappear into the pipe, pull it out expecting a bunch of goop, but NOTHING!
OK, time to auger some more, another 15-20 feet of snake, met resistance a couple of times and was able to crank the auger and keep going. Pull it out again. See the smallest bit of hair on the end, but nothing big. Reassemble p-trap and drainpipe. Run the water - STILL CLOGGED.
Try plunger - STILL CLOGGED.
Disassemble p-trap to drain water, empty the P-tram and horizontal and vertical runs as far as i can reach.
Reassemble p-trap and drain. Run warm water. CLOGGED AND PRETTY MUCH NO DRAINAGE after only a few cups of water.
Seems impossible to get my head around the situation, as there seems to be a clog kicking in for the most minimal amount of water even when i can snake tens of feet. It doesn't seem like i'm even running enough water to fill the pipe that i KNOW is clear, much less the rest of the distance where the snake is going. Like, a couple of cups of water and the drain is COMPLETELY CLOGGED. Maybe drains at a rate of less than 1 CUP of water per hour.
This is BAFFLING to me. Any thoughts would be most appreciated.
Regards,
JTK