Kitchen Drain Issues

[GuyNTexas]

For a month, I've been fighting a clog in my kitchen sink. I thought I had it all cleared and replaced the plumbing under the sink because it was getting old anyway. Well now, the drain clogs almost immediately and I have seen water puddles that look like they are coming out the the bottom of my outside wall opposit the sink leaking on to my cement slab porch. Its a ranch style home on a slab built in 1980. Is there a leak in my drain pipe? Could a joint of the pipe have come apart?

The drain pipe makes a 90 degree right turn and from there I don't know where it does. My dishwasher is directly to the right of my sink. Could I get luck and find the drain pipe behind the dishwasher? I have plumbers coming this week but I'm really worried that this is going to be expensive and I cant pay alot at the moment.

 

[Reach4]

For a month, I've been fighting a clog in my kitchen sink. I thought I had it all cleared and replaced the plumbing under the sink because it was getting old anyway. Well now, the drain clogs almost immediately and I have seen water puddles that look like they are coming out the the bottom of my outside wall opposite the sink leaking on to my cement slab porch. Its a ranch style home on a slab built in 1980. Is there a leak in my drain pipe? Could a joint of the pipe have come apart?

If you can relate timing putting the water down the drain to the puddle, then yes, you have a failure. I don't see how a joint would come apart in your presumed slab, but maybe below the slab?

The almost immediately thing would seem opposite to a leak to the patio. Maybe quantify. Get a 5 gallon bucket. Let the kitchen sink drain rest overnight. Pour water medium-fast from the bucket into the drain until the drain stops taking the water. Estimate what part of the five gallons the water dropped in the bucket. The bucket did not have to start full, but you are looking at the change in level.

That gives the amount of water, and from there we can estimate how far down the blockage is.

 

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[Cacher_Chick]

If you are slab on grade, it's time to open up the wall and see. Are you sure the horizontal trap arm going into the drain in the wall is correctly assembled and not leaking at the trap adapter?

 

[GuyNTexas]

Had plumbers come out yesterday to snake the line and replace under the sink plumbing. All issues seem to be fixed at the moment.