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Theo123

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• Dec 13, 2007

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I've been moving some of the pipes in my 5 year old house last week (added a shower) and three days after I finished all the soldering I now have no pressure anywhere. the toilets wont fill faucets are just a trickle.
and i noticed the water color in one of the toilets is dark black like.
could the pipes be blocked? how can I unblock?

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• Dec 13, 2007

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Did you have normal pressure everywhere after you first finished your plumbing job, and it just now has all stopped? Or has it been blocked since your work?
Have you checked all shut-off valves from your meter to all main line valves to and in the house? Are they all wide open? Is it the cold or hot or both?
Please give us more information, and we'll try to help.
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• Dec 13, 2007

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We cannot tell you why you do not have pressure, but until you know the answer we cannot tell you how to restore it either.

 

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• Dec 13, 2007

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You haven't given us much to go on.......but one thing to suspect is the main shut off valve, which presumably you turned off while doing your work. Perhaps it is not fully open. When you reopened it, does it now turn and turn and turn, and never actually gets to a stop point? That is a gate valve whose gate is still closed, and the stem has snapped

 

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The black water in the toilet is just due to a lot of crud that worked its way loose when you closed and then reopened the main. If you had good water pressure when you first opened the main back up, then you have a major blockage somewhere. Try opening your outdoor spigots and turn the main off and on a couple of times. If you're lucky, some big blob of crud will come out. Maybe a mouse crawled into your open pipes when you weren't looking and got stuck. LOL

 

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• Dec 19, 2007

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If black water is coming in toilet ,there can be problem in pipe near toilet. Is that running continuously? What can be said without seeing . check properly again or take help of Professional Boston plumbing experts.

 

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• Dec 19, 2007

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Check hole pipe line with full of pressure from main. there pipe could block some where.