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Old 12-21-2010, 10:11 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Czop418 View Post
It doesnt pick up your toilet. You my good sir just have bad drains. When you started replacing the pipe did you make sure you were pitching the drains correctly 1/4 inch pitch every foot. (**** flows downhill). You should try a plunger before you start ripping pipe out. First you just need to fill up the tube and get a good amount of water in it. Than You need to take off the faceplate for the waste and overflow. Take out the stopper if you have one. Than take a rag and jam it in the waste and overflow to clog it. Than take the plunger remember a good plunge isn't about going down its about the force going up. If that doesn't work your going to need someone to run a handheld power snake through the pipe.
Have you ever seen old copper pipe when it rots out? From water sitting in the bottom of the pipe and it literally crumbles when you breathe on it the wrong way? Thats what it started doing. I dont think a plunger would fix anything..ive had all the traps wide open and a blowbag/snake in there... The pipes in this house were done in the 1960s..and from messing with it they probably arent pitched properly..but at this point I just want someone who knows what they are doing to fix it
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