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| Lebezniatnikov |
| I don't think anyone expected these words to ever be written on TA, but PM Googooly... isn't he a plumber? |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| i was hoping this thread was going to be about your bowel. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
If it's only one appliance that's blocked we won't need Joe Plumber. But if it's a problem with the drainage then we'll have no choice.
I've just had a shower and it drained without raising the water level of the toilet or sink, but it did take a little while. The toilet is very slowly draining. So the blockage isn't total, but it is looking like a job for the plumber.
So the plan I've come up with is as follows: wait for the toilet to drain down to normal, then launch a coordinated chemical strike on toilet, sink and bath. Leave it for a couple of hours, then test. If we're still ed, then Joe The Plumber it is. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| Both your sink and toilet will join to the sewer out-flow pipe; if both of them are backing up then your blockage is lower then the point where both join up. You're going to need a long snake wire... in the basement there will be a screw cap access to the sewer out-flow pipe, open it (will require a pipe wrench), feed the snake up the out-flow pipe until you meet resistance (blockage), turn the snake to break-up the blockage (you will know you have done this when you hear the sewage drain down the pipe past the access... some may come out... you'll want to clean it up), once the block is gone put the screw cap back on. If you don't find the block going up then try going down; however, if the block is lower then the access pipe then there is a pretty good chance that the problem is tree/plant roots have broken through the pipe... if this is the case then you'll need a roto-rooter service to break them up; however, this should be your landlord's responsibility as such an occurrence could not possibly be your fault. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Both your sink and toilet will join to the sewer out-flow pipe; if both of them are backing up then your blockage is lower then the point where both join up. You're going to need a long snake wire... in the basement there will be a screw cap access to the sewer out-flow pipe, open it (will require a pipe wrench), feed the snake up the out-flow pipe until you meet resistance (blockage), turn the snake to break-up the blockage (you will know you have done this when you hear the sewage drain down the pipe past the access... some may come out... you'll want to clean it up), once the block is gone put the screw cap back on. If you don't find the block going up then try going down; however, if the block is lower then the access pipe then there is a pretty good chance that the problem is tree/plant roots have broken through the pipe... if this is the case then you'll need a roto-rooter service to break them up; however, this should be your landlord's responsibility as such an occurrence could not possibly be your fault. |
that's what I was gonna write! |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
;however, this should be your landlord's responsibility as such an occurrence could not possibly be your fault. |
it, then. We phoned them and they said they'd send a plumber if the problem wasn't our fault - otherwise it was on our heads to deal with it.
The house has changed ownership during our tenancy, you see, and since the new landlord doesn't have our deposit (or any of our rent), they aren't very sympathetic.
Great post, thanks a lot. |
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| netroM |
Ask this guy:
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| SYSTEM-J |
I live in England, thousands of miles from Toronto.
As it stands, the two estate agents (not landlords) are engaged in some sort of plumber-tennis, with the old ones saying it's no longer their problem and the new ones saying we haven't signed any contract with them, they don't take the house until July 1st and so we can off. Neither wants to pay up for the plumber and we're sat here with a bathroom that smells of . |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Okay, you don't get to post in this thread anymore. |
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| Ian |
| bale out at your end with a bucket and a smaller bucket or container. get some mr muscles sink/plughole unblocker, or some tnt. |
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| Theresa |
Pull out your rental agreement, and also find the landlord and tenants act for your district/country/region. Chances are, this is not your problem and therefore, you shouldn't be paying a damn cent to fix it.
There are rules RE: landlord changes. USUALLY, the new landlord assumes all duties and responsibilities of the old one.
Don't let them rip you off. If you used the toilet like a normal person and weren't shoving weird things down the pipes, then you shouldn't be held responsible for their plumbing issues. |
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| nchs09 |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
There's a reason I wanted advice that wasn't "just leave it and move out". Firstly, how the are we supposed to live for a week with no bathroom? |
People figured out for hundreds of years how to live with out a toilet... im sure you can figure it out. |
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