SPFrancine
New Member
Hi everyone,
The bathtub always drained slow, grease & hair drain opener didn't work, I waited about a week and I got some "green" environmentally friendly drain opener, and it didn't do the job either. We blocked the overflow and used toilet plunger, and heard a lot of gurgles, and a lot of black tar-like sludge (laced with black sand, not a lot of hair just this black sand/sludge) came back.
Up until this point our bathroom and kitchen sinks were draining fine, but now they are draining into our bathtub.
Did I pull something out of vent or somewhere else that may caused this blockage?
Thankfully toilet is not draining back into tub so my guess is that blockage is somewhere before the toilet, or our contractor connected the toilet directly to mainline.
We are on 2nd floor.
Here is a diagram of what I think might be happening? I don't want to keep plunging and push the blockage past toilet and cause more problems, but it seems to me like if I can push it past toilet, I might be able to push it into main line?
Here is another little interesting fact. I was able to send 15' snake down through tub's overflow, it had some resistance but it made it all the way, but came back completely clean (except some brown water), no sludge, hair or anything else. Is it possible snake kept going wrong way, but where can it go? Vent?
The bathtub always drained slow, grease & hair drain opener didn't work, I waited about a week and I got some "green" environmentally friendly drain opener, and it didn't do the job either. We blocked the overflow and used toilet plunger, and heard a lot of gurgles, and a lot of black tar-like sludge (laced with black sand, not a lot of hair just this black sand/sludge) came back.
Up until this point our bathroom and kitchen sinks were draining fine, but now they are draining into our bathtub.
Did I pull something out of vent or somewhere else that may caused this blockage?
Thankfully toilet is not draining back into tub so my guess is that blockage is somewhere before the toilet, or our contractor connected the toilet directly to mainline.
We are on 2nd floor.
Here is a diagram of what I think might be happening? I don't want to keep plunging and push the blockage past toilet and cause more problems, but it seems to me like if I can push it past toilet, I might be able to push it into main line?
Here is another little interesting fact. I was able to send 15' snake down through tub's overflow, it had some resistance but it made it all the way, but came back completely clean (except some brown water), no sludge, hair or anything else. Is it possible snake kept going wrong way, but where can it go? Vent?