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1. Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: "Lyn Fatt, Brian A" <brian.lynfatt@eds.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 00:29:18 -0500
Looking for help with the Toilet and shower drain. Symptoms...both toilets in the house drain very slowly. The shower backed up this morning when I used it, although it is now empty. It was fine yest
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00044.html (8,335 bytes)

2. RE: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: "Gerald J. Brazil" <gerrybraz@voyager.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 07:16:07 -0500
I had just such symptoms and everything I tried failed. I finally resorted to calling a plumber who repeated all of the steps I had taken with the same negative results. He finally took a drain snake
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00045.html (8,105 bytes)

3. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 08:37:31 -0500
Brian, Not sure about the layout of your pipes but try to draw a map of how they connect. This will give you an idea were the clog will be located. From you post the clog has to be after the 2 toilet
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00046.html (9,573 bytes)

4. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: Dwade Reinsch <dreinsch@tenet.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 08:08:47 -0600
While all of you are working on the toilet problems, help me with a tub problem. The tub drain is getting very slow. It has a "build in" drain plug, so I haven't been able to run a snake down the fir
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00047.html (10,553 bytes)

5. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: Scott Hall <sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:05:32 -0500 (EST)
<snip> this may be of little help to you, since you mentioned the shower as a problem as well, but I had this problem with the toilets in my mom's house this summer. they drained _very_ slowly. so I
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00049.html (8,557 bytes)

6. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:37:30 -0500 (EST)
Lyn the problem is in your mail sewer line. The sinks drain slower so thats why they are not backing up, also they are higher. Take a flash light and look into your vent on your lawn. If you see wate
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00051.html (9,670 bytes)

7. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: "Lyn Fatt, Brian A" <brian.lynfatt@eds.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 16:06:59 -0600
A global thanks to everyone that responded and tried to help. After climbing up onto the roof and checking the vents, I decided that there was no way I was going to safely make it up with the snake.
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00052.html (8,506 bytes)

8. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: "Peter Schauss" <schauss@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 17:42:05 -0500
Try to tack down the location of the blockage. Since the kitchen and bathroom sinks drain properly, they must feed into your sewer line downstream from the spot where the line is blocked. If you have
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00055.html (9,710 bytes)

9. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 23:16:37 -0600
As the sewer charge administrator, permit clerk and locator dispatcher for the sewer division of public works in a major city, I can say it without a trace of bias: Sewers are the basis of modern ci
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00056.html (8,175 bytes)

10. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 00:17:00 -0500
We have a problem with tree roots, which periodically clog the pipe that runs out to the main sewer line that goes to the street. Estimated cost to replace the pipe is $1200. For the last eight year
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00058.html (8,305 bytes)

11. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 19:13:00 -0500
The ancient Romans built aquaducts all over the Mediterrenean, but the first real sewer systems were done in the late middle ages when Paris became such a pestilent mess that even the government was
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00061.html (8,168 bytes)

12. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: "Tony Clark" <lotus.tony@airmail.net>
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 21:26:36 -0600
A friendly plumber put me on to the solution of this problem which had plagued me for years: 3 or four times a year, preferably when you're going to be away for a few days, flush the toilets and at t
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00062.html (8,806 bytes)

13. Re: Toilet/Shower drain help. (score: 1)
Author: Scott Whitehead <swhiteh3@mpdr0.detroit.mi.ameritech.net>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 16:30:57 -0500
After buying a home built in the 1950s recently, I had terrible drainage problems exactly like the note that started this thread. My drains were so bad, that it required three industrial snakings (ac
/html/shop-talk/1999-11/msg00064.html (9,414 bytes)


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