cgray21
New Member
We got the tank pumped, and I flushed the toilet-- and it drained very, very slowly. Nopw we had the cap off, and the inlet was, well, not dribbling, but the flow was fairly flow-- I'd say it took about 3 minutes to stop dropping water into the tank after teh flush concluded (I turned off everything else on teh line, so that I could be certain it wasn't getting any other water.).
Now, given the age of teh tank and the fact that it wasn't pumped for some time and the fact that it looks like settling has badly reduced the pipes slope (and it had to have two 90 degree bends to get to the tank), I'm thinking this seems to say that there's either a blockage or simply silting up in the pipe, but I thought I'd ask those more skilled if that slow flow from an inlet pipe is unusual in the aftermath of a flush.
Now that we have the tank pumped, however, my plan is to dig up the inlet pipe over the next several days, check it for root intrusion, and maybe just remove the pipe from the inlet to the tank so I can jet them both out.
Does that sound like a plan, or am I missing something obvious here?
Now, given the age of teh tank and the fact that it wasn't pumped for some time and the fact that it looks like settling has badly reduced the pipes slope (and it had to have two 90 degree bends to get to the tank), I'm thinking this seems to say that there's either a blockage or simply silting up in the pipe, but I thought I'd ask those more skilled if that slow flow from an inlet pipe is unusual in the aftermath of a flush.
Now that we have the tank pumped, however, my plan is to dig up the inlet pipe over the next several days, check it for root intrusion, and maybe just remove the pipe from the inlet to the tank so I can jet them both out.
Does that sound like a plan, or am I missing something obvious here?