Anyone know plumbing? - Page 2

Originally Posted by Divemaster920

Ok, So you have a crawl space....You should be able to see the pipe and with measurements, tell where your stoppage is. PVC is easy to repair. Cut it out with a saw and clean it out and put it back together with "Fernco" fittings.

This could work but also note that you can have alot of....pretty things that will come out and it will be a tab smelly

Well water is once again flowing in our household....I took the slightly pornographic instructions from Easyrecycle (sorry Easy, could not resist:-) and got the snake running through the drain....It finally snagged something and popped it loose...Everything started flowing from there.

The vent issue is strange...When we bought this place the people before us had started a remodel and never finished. They were in the process of working on the bathroom when they decided to sell....The vent line comes up through the bathroom floor and then into the ceiling...They capped it off in the attic (they drywalled over the attic entrance) and then ran another pipe off the original vent pipe back down through the bathroom floor and then to one of the grates in the crawl space...A friend said that it would do for now but that we should have it redone to vent through the roof....So that is on the todo list for the nice weather.

Thanks for all the help on this matter. I knew I could count on everyone here and thanks for responding to my issues.

As far as getting into the crawl space that is generally a great suggestion but the opening that they have cut is not big enough to accomodate my shoulders or my gut for that matter lol...I have a couple skinny friends but they were busy.

If this on a mobile home or doublewide, I'll bet for frozen pipes with the weather we've been having. Probably from the bottom of the unit being open over near the bathroom and letting a pipe freeze. This warm spell today and tomorrow should thaw it out.

Originally Posted by ComputerScrapper

Well water is once again flowing in our household....I took the slightly pornographic instructions from Easyrecycle (sorry Easy, could not resist:-) and got the snake running through the drain....It finally snagged something and popped it loose...Everything started flowing from there...........................

Happy that its working and yea..it sounded very pornographic...could not think of a better way to type it with out making it sound worse...so I just left it very simple.

Some times you have to work the snake to brake blockage free...hair down in the drain can be a real pain as it will make a tight ball and not want to brake..so when you go in and out you are slowly ripping it apart and cutting into it...once you brake it apart it will flow once again =)

Glad you got it fixed. Definitely have the vent reworked so it is correct or you might have unwanted water coming out when you are not looking and cause problems.

Told a buddy already that I would like to have the vent worked on this coming week. Supposed to have a couple days of near 50 degree weather so it will be decent to work in. don't want to take a chance on this kind of thing happening again. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and it will get done. At least I can now say that I own a toilet snake....Don't know if I will ever use it again but who knows...Never a bad idea to have a spare tool lying around I guess.

Not only did you get a new tool that comes in handy, You saved at least $100 by not having to call someone.