Originally Posted by bigsacattack
I have a single story slab home. Washing machine in attached garage. Two bathrooms with the toilets backed up to each other on the same wall. Also city sewer. I notice every 3-6 months, I'll notice 2 problems, not necessarily at the same time. 1.) I'll wake up and notice that my bathtub is full of black particles and about 2 inches of water. Draino clears this up pretty well. 2.) Toilets have bubbles coming up while washing machine or dishwasher are draining.
Today, we were doing a load of laundry, I was in the backyard right outside my bathroom windows. There is this metal cap sitting loosely on some sort of pipe, about 6 inches in diameter. All of sudden I noticed water and looked like a paper towel coming up out of this pipe. Then later, the toilet started bubbling?
The first time this happened, I had roto rooter out and they said that they would not go up on my roof to root it out. They wanted to install a clean out in the front of my house for $800.00 before they would do anything. So my father-in-law and I rented a cable from Home Depot and went to the roof. We rooted the whole 50' or so and that thing came up clean. And the problem lasted about a day, no more than that.
Any ideas what this could be or how I can keep this from happening?