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Kitchen Sink Won't Drain
Asked Dec 28, 2005, 07:53 AM
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11 Answers I have a 1400 Sq Ft. House, on a Slab. Built in the late 1950's. We just recently had a problem occur on Dec. 22nd, my wife called me at work and said the main bathroom toilet just flooded from underneath the stool. She was just in there cleaning the bathroom. Then went and started a load of laundry, she went back into the bathroom not more then 10-15 minutes later and the floor was soaked. She said it was CLEAR/Clean water, no soap suds or anything, as if it just came out of the faucet. I told her to turn the water to the toilet off, and try not to use it until I got home. I got home, and called a friend who knows a little more about Plumbing. He was not quite sure on this one, he said to try turning it back on and running some more laundry to see if it happens again. We did.... And nothing happened, it has been fine ever since, BUT ... Ever since that little incident my kitchen sink will not drain, nor will the dishwasher which is hooked up to it. I heard about roto rooter, so we called them up, they ran their roto rooter snake through my kitchen drains, and pulled out some roots, they did this like 3 times, one of the times (the last one) they said their snake almost got stuck. They then suggested to clean out the main sewage line that runs to the city sewer (by the road) they did that and pulled out quite a pile of roots, and cleared that out so they felt no more blockages in the main. However, the sink is worse then it was before they came, and they want to charge me another trip fee of $70.00 to come out and run the snake through my kitchen drain again, we fought with them to get them to waive the trip fee but they said that they have a pretty good feeling they are going to lose their snake if they try it again, then we will have to rip up all our piping.  I do not know what to do now, and after the holidays we are strapped! Roto-Rooter said they can use their camera snake but that would cost another $250.00, we have already paid them $248.00 for a sink that drains even worse! Please help! The plumber guy I know said he has some extremely powerful pipe/clog cleaner stuff called WAMO, that I could get from him and try. Something only plumber/companies can buy, can't get it at stores or purchase it online. |
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| Well I'm not sure but after I got that snake out, I did break through something.... I didn't use the drain for 2 more days but I let hot water run through the drain for about 10 minutes without it ever filling up again.... I assume when I got that snake out, they were in the main clog, and I must of broke through it and it just took a few days to clear out of the pipes because our drain is working perfectly now! We ran the dishwasher 3 times, successfully... No backups in our sink... Very relieved!  Thanks for all the suggestions and tips. | ||||
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| You may want to fork over the $$$ to have someone come out with a camera and take a look down the drain, well worth it IMO. Of course when I had it done I got it for free because Pops-in-law works for a company that does it on ships. Anyway, might not be a bad idea, see what's actually causing the problem and how far down the line it is. My 2 cents. | ||||
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