One of my tenant's bathtub drains suddenly stopped working.
I tried plunging for hours (more than 2 almost nonstop). A bit of a gurgle each time and then nothing. I stopped up the overflow since the plunger was just causing water to splash out of it.
I ran a small snake in-- can only get between the drain and the overflow (easily)-- can't seem to get it in anywhere else. I ended up breaking the snake and cutting myself. I tried taking the trap off the sink nedt to the bathtub but couldn't feed the snake in.
No other drains seem affected. Kitchen and bathroom sink and toliet seem to be flowing fine. Water from bathroom sink drain does seem to increase bathtub water volume, but I'm not sure.
There's black sooty water standing in the bathtub, going nowhere . . . no idea what to do at this point. Please spend your Thanksgiving holiday advising me.
I tried plunging for hours (more than 2 almost nonstop). A bit of a gurgle each time and then nothing. I stopped up the overflow since the plunger was just causing water to splash out of it.
I ran a small snake in-- can only get between the drain and the overflow (easily)-- can't seem to get it in anywhere else. I ended up breaking the snake and cutting myself. I tried taking the trap off the sink nedt to the bathtub but couldn't feed the snake in.
No other drains seem affected. Kitchen and bathroom sink and toliet seem to be flowing fine. Water from bathroom sink drain does seem to increase bathtub water volume, but I'm not sure.
There's black sooty water standing in the bathtub, going nowhere . . . no idea what to do at this point. Please spend your Thanksgiving holiday advising me.