Ricketts
New Member
Hi Everyone;
We have a 30 yr old house with 2 identical older American Standard toilets - one in the basement, and one in the loft. The one in the loft acts up about every tenth flush, wherein it does the slow flush. We also get a bubble instantly when we flush, and we then know it will not succeed. It does this a couple of times, then is OK for another ten times or so. All other sinks and tubs, and the basement toilet, work fine.
Using info from searching the forums here (awesome site! I love what you can find online) I have cleaned out the jet hole (it seemed OK) and all the rim holes (dirty), but this issue still occurs.
Water level is right up to the edge of the overflow in the tank.
I think the vent and the rest of the system is OK if everything else works fine.
We have no children so there should not be any GI Joes or anything stuck in the trap.
I am kind of at a loss of what to do at the moment. It has always been this way, ever since we bought the house. Last year we were doing reno's and had the ceiling below the upstairs toilet ripped apart, and found the drain actually ran uphill about 2 inches and there were 2 old screws actually through the ABS drain pipe! We removed the entire section of plumbing and redid it with a proper slope, and everything seemed great - long enough for us to assume the problem had left permanently - but three weeks after putting everything back together the problem returned. There were no other obstructions between this point and where the drain tapped into the vent line.
I'm tempted to buy a couple new wax gaskets and flip the two toilets around to see if the problem follows the toilet or stays with the location.
Thanks in advance for any ideas or tips you may have,
Rick
We have a 30 yr old house with 2 identical older American Standard toilets - one in the basement, and one in the loft. The one in the loft acts up about every tenth flush, wherein it does the slow flush. We also get a bubble instantly when we flush, and we then know it will not succeed. It does this a couple of times, then is OK for another ten times or so. All other sinks and tubs, and the basement toilet, work fine.
Using info from searching the forums here (awesome site! I love what you can find online) I have cleaned out the jet hole (it seemed OK) and all the rim holes (dirty), but this issue still occurs.
Water level is right up to the edge of the overflow in the tank.
I think the vent and the rest of the system is OK if everything else works fine.
We have no children so there should not be any GI Joes or anything stuck in the trap.
I am kind of at a loss of what to do at the moment. It has always been this way, ever since we bought the house. Last year we were doing reno's and had the ceiling below the upstairs toilet ripped apart, and found the drain actually ran uphill about 2 inches and there were 2 old screws actually through the ABS drain pipe! We removed the entire section of plumbing and redid it with a proper slope, and everything seemed great - long enough for us to assume the problem had left permanently - but three weeks after putting everything back together the problem returned. There were no other obstructions between this point and where the drain tapped into the vent line.
I'm tempted to buy a couple new wax gaskets and flip the two toilets around to see if the problem follows the toilet or stays with the location.
Thanks in advance for any ideas or tips you may have,
Rick