Please forgive the long story. Just want to get all the info out.....
My basement has a toilet, two floor drains, and a drain pipe for the washer. They all converge (at one point I assume) into the main stack. One of the floor drains has a shower stall over it. In the past I have had to snake hair out of the drain under the shower, but no major problems.
Now my house is sold. The buyers had a sewer inspection done earlier this month and everything came out OK. The inspector ran a camera in the main sewer line out to the city hookup. Last week, after my wife took a shower, water had backed up under the shower stall, the other floor drain in the middle of the room was backed up, and if you flushed the toilet, water came up out of the floor drain. I called the same company that did the inspection for the buyers. He came out and of course everything was working by then.
Since the run to the city hookup is about 90', he opened the cleanout plug on the main stack and had me turn the bathtub on upstairs. You could visually see that the water was flowing just fine. We left that on for about 15min. Then he used his power auger on the lines from the two floor drains. Also, we hooked up the rubber bladder that I had to a garden hose and let them run a while to flush everything out.
All was good. Now my wife just called me this morning and said the drain backed up again but seems to have cleared itself already. I have lived in this house for 13 years and never had this problem. Any ideas?
Thanks!
My basement has a toilet, two floor drains, and a drain pipe for the washer. They all converge (at one point I assume) into the main stack. One of the floor drains has a shower stall over it. In the past I have had to snake hair out of the drain under the shower, but no major problems.
Now my house is sold. The buyers had a sewer inspection done earlier this month and everything came out OK. The inspector ran a camera in the main sewer line out to the city hookup. Last week, after my wife took a shower, water had backed up under the shower stall, the other floor drain in the middle of the room was backed up, and if you flushed the toilet, water came up out of the floor drain. I called the same company that did the inspection for the buyers. He came out and of course everything was working by then.
Since the run to the city hookup is about 90', he opened the cleanout plug on the main stack and had me turn the bathtub on upstairs. You could visually see that the water was flowing just fine. We left that on for about 15min. Then he used his power auger on the lines from the two floor drains. Also, we hooked up the rubber bladder that I had to a garden hose and let them run a while to flush everything out.
All was good. Now my wife just called me this morning and said the drain backed up again but seems to have cleared itself already. I have lived in this house for 13 years and never had this problem. Any ideas?
Thanks!