I have posted before about our toliet troubles. We have had two professional plumbers out and both said they are not sure what to do. Onw suggested busting out walls and replumbing. We don't want to do that. I think we would just not use the bathroom instead but it sure would be convienent I'm hoping that you guys can help give some suggestions. Here's what we have. The house built in 1942. Bathroom installed sometime in the 1970's to our best guess. It is a ranch with basement. Well water and septic system. We have had our septic inspected, pumped and all the lines from the house to the septic were replace approx 1 year ago with PVC. The basement is concrete floor with all solid concrete walls and 3/4 finished. The basement bathroom has a toliet, sink and shower stall. It seems we can wash our hands without a problem but if we use the shower the water backs up out of the pipe in the floor by the sink. We have a brand new Kohler Wellworth toliet in that bathroom. There is a stack pipe with a cleanout outside the bathroom wall. We can not flush the toliet period. The only way to get it to flush is to uncap the clean out on the otherside of the wall and then flush. It flushes perfectly then (as long as we leave it uncapped). So we are considering a different toliet or one of the Qwik Jon System. The only problem that I see is if we use something that has an extra box or something is finding space to fit it. The toliet is mounted to the ground and since in concrete and between the door and shower it could not be moved. The wall behind and to the sides are solid concrete walls. Hence our problem with putting something that needs to be piped into the toliet. We have approx 1 foot between the wall and toliet.
I hope this is enough information that maybe you can give some suggestions.
I hope this is enough information that maybe you can give some suggestions.
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