Locating A Drain Clog: Location Of Blocked Drains Can Be Confusing

water finds its easiest level, great insight. thank you

Thank you, this was so helpful

Great vid - thank you for sharing.

Very helpful!

We put a large pot of cooked spaghetti in our disposal on 2nd floor and its blocked bad.. i tried augering manually but didnt get very far. A plumber just left my house after 2.5 hrs and couldn't clear it with a 75' powered auger. He tried twice but no dice.( Not sure if it matters but his auger tip was broken off to nub that he bent slightly with pliers instead of those open coiled tips ive seen.) He said its one of the worst blocks hes seen and we'd have to cut a hole in the ceiling on 1st floor in garage, cut the pipe, and snake it that way. Should i get a 2nd opinion from a diff plumber? Thanks

I have a leak outside. Only when I drain my kitchen sink it will also drain outside out of my siding. How do I figure that out?

Hey I’m having a problem I been having this problems almost a month I had some one come out and ranned a 75 ft snake down my sewer line I don’t have the outlet in the yard they had to do it from the vent on top of my house and they rannned out of reach so can it be clogged close to the street my yard is now that big where he could reach he was pulling a lot of wipes out my kids did

My kitchen sink is clogged. Water won’t drain. Takes hours to finally go down. I check the exposed pipe underneath and they seem clear. I believe the clog is past that behind the wall somewhere. What’s best way to clear this? I’m thinking of renting a electric auger from Home Depot? Good idea? Which one?

Where should you try 1st then?

2nd floor clog in the bathtub. Running an auger down the bathtub drain does nothing. Run the auger about 8-9 feet down the pipe below the bathroom sink in the same bathroom removes the clog. Have to auger it once a year. Now it’s backed up but it takes time to back up. Can take a shower for 4-5 minutes before the water starts pooling in the tub. Still drains though it is slower l and when I am done showering take barely over a minute to drain. Not backing as far as I can tell in the the first floor bathroom which is immediately below. Plumber wants to literally demolish the entire bathroom, rip out the walls and tub in both bathrooms. $12,000. Not including the thousands I would have to pay remodeling. I don’t bother with them. These are the same plumbers when he checked all the valves that are under the faucets and toilets that all 12 are frozen and to pay him $3,100 to replace them all. I simply unfroze 10 of them using a plumbers wrench. Three needed to be replaced but I did them myself. Only one gave me trouble due to how cramped it was.

I live in a really old house. In my basement i have a washing machine and a old sink that both connect to the main line. If i have a blockage in my second level bathtub will a clog on that floor cause water to fill up my sink in the basement or is that a clog in the sewer line under the basement floor? I also have two small cracked pvc pipes that go from the first floor to tge basement tgat run to the same sewer line. Will these 2 cracked pipes alos cause a issue with water not draining fast enough?

So what if your house is one level

Please Help. Recently developed basement. Water was overflowing from Toilet and Shower. Plumber came, fixed issue with snake, checked with camera up to the main sewerage that pipes looked nice and clean. It's only been 20 days today and water is overflowing again in Toilet and Shower. Any thoughts?

Plumbing is not for everyone. That's why ppl can always call a plumber 😂

You confuse me

Lol this was informative but you talk so slow that when I put it at 1.5x speed it sounds normal 😁