Timothy LaDuca
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I have had my toilet start bubbling when the washing machine is draining in the spin cycle. While it is bubbling it will not flush. When the bubbling stops the toilet (and any other toilet that I have "test flushed" during this time period) will flush. I've read some other forums online and nobody seems to be having this exact problem. It is not reproducible. It just seems to happen every so often. Now if you think you already know what is going on, wait...
The other day I was taking a shower in the master bathroom, this drain is farthest from the sewer line (manhole) at the street. The toilet starts going "bloop, bloop, bloop". Large air bubbles are coming out of the toilet. Mind you, nothing else is going on with the plumbing but a small amount if drainage from my low flow shower faucet. Out of curiosity I stepped out of the shower to see if the other toilet was "blooping" air. It wasn't. I returned to the shower and turned it off. The air bubbles stopped. I turned the shower back on and after a moment the toilet started throwing up air bubbles again. I had already done a test flush on the toilet, and that had failed. I didn't test flush the other toilet so I could see if anything strange would happen to it.
Ok, so then the bubbling stops and there is a mega-flush of the toilet, I mean like a Mach 5 flush. Just incredible suction. The other toilet, which had not been flushed, somehow had some water sucked out of it (about a third of the bowl). But I know it didn't "auto flush" because otherwise there should have been barely any water in the bowl. Would love to hear if anyone has heard of anything like this and if they think they know what is going on. And again it is not reproducible. In other words I can't "make" these symptoms happen. It just does this every so often.
The other day I was taking a shower in the master bathroom, this drain is farthest from the sewer line (manhole) at the street. The toilet starts going "bloop, bloop, bloop". Large air bubbles are coming out of the toilet. Mind you, nothing else is going on with the plumbing but a small amount if drainage from my low flow shower faucet. Out of curiosity I stepped out of the shower to see if the other toilet was "blooping" air. It wasn't. I returned to the shower and turned it off. The air bubbles stopped. I turned the shower back on and after a moment the toilet started throwing up air bubbles again. I had already done a test flush on the toilet, and that had failed. I didn't test flush the other toilet so I could see if anything strange would happen to it.
Ok, so then the bubbling stops and there is a mega-flush of the toilet, I mean like a Mach 5 flush. Just incredible suction. The other toilet, which had not been flushed, somehow had some water sucked out of it (about a third of the bowl). But I know it didn't "auto flush" because otherwise there should have been barely any water in the bowl. Would love to hear if anyone has heard of anything like this and if they think they know what is going on. And again it is not reproducible. In other words I can't "make" these symptoms happen. It just does this every so often.
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