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[JDgreen]

About 2 pm today my cop neighbor texted me asking if I knew anything about cleaning drains out, I know a good bit so went over with tools and a big drain snake, his basement bath drain would not drain into the main sewer line and sewage was bubbling up out of the floor drain. Well I tried to snake the drains out and then we tried to block the drain outlet and run water thru the toilet bowl hoping to dislodge the clog, then tried air pressure thru the sink drain, after about 3 hours we gave up. There was this huge 4 inch PVC cap recessed into the floor, we couldn't get the cap off and despite my 35 years of plumbing experience I had never seen anything like it. Went home and told my wife "I am pretty sure the blockage is caused by his kids using way too much toilet paper in the bowl but no way am I going to say that because he loves his kids".

Well he called a roto rooter company and they came out and pulled that big PVC cap off uisng a special tool and as he texted me later on "guess what, my kids had been stuffing so much toilet paper in the bowl that...." Good thing he texted me instead of phoning as you can't laugh on a text reply unless you want to...:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[AndyMan]

I thought TP was supposed to break down in water after only a few seconds. How much must they have been using??? I'll bet the cleanup from that job wasn't pretty.

As a kid we had a problem with our septic tank. The company that came out was called "Royal Flush". Their motto was "A Royal Flush beats a Full House".

 

[JDgreen]

I thought TP was supposed to break down in water after only a few seconds. How much must they have been using??? I'll bet the cleanup from that job wasn't pretty.

As a kid we had a problem with our septic tank. The company that came out was called "Royal Flush". Their motto was "A Royal Flush beats a Full House".

LOL LOL your story is funnier than mine, well part of the problem is the basement floor drain had a very low slope, normally drain pipes are sloped a quarter inch per foot on the horizontal but his were not, the sewage was coming out because the plumber who did his drainpipes left a vertical pipe for a vent that was to go thru a wall and then the builder decided not to put the wall there so he ended up with a pipe that was cut off above the concrete floor which is a code violation. The kids were putting TP in the toilet by the handful I guess...

 

[Driller]

There is a concern about toilet paper though, especially if you use a stronger type that might be thicker than the traditional. If you take a lot of surveys like I do, you get that question a lot, about TP not clogging drains.