Took 3 hours and a trip to Harbor Freight and I now have flowing drains. The main going to the street was clogged with root hairs from the magnolia tree. Nobody ever says to themselves I can't wait to go home and play with my new sewer auger but when raw sewage is backing up in the bathtub they're your best friends. Already paid for itself as opposed to calling a plumber to snake the line.👍

I don’t have ANY experience with home improvement, however we literally had an issue where the bathtub was clogged. I bought some draino thinking it was a standard hair clog. Nope, then we started noticing the water rising so I went and got a quick manual snake, nope didn’t fix the problem. So finally after a few days of this issue the landlord was able to get a plumber and he fixed it real quickly, didn’t even have to come into the house. I was so curious to know how he fixed it that I came here, but it was bad like I had to shower at the gym before going to work while the bathtub would fill up every time we used the kitchen sink. There was even a bit of excrement flowing up, I’m just grateful to be able to take a shower in our home, this really made me appreciate the amenities that we have in our modern world today. 😮‍💨

Man, my house is in this state right now. Like, RIGHT NOW. There's literally poop coming out of the bathroom things (toilet and everything that gives out water but the sink.) Thank you, respect man.

This was excellent! Thank you. This in fact, was the only thorough. Video, i could find on KZread. THX

@gregvancom

8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great informative video. Thank You

You are a true hero! ty for this wonderful example!

Thanks for showing the illustrations and taking time to explain the plumbing process.

@gregvancom

2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you for posting this!

Excellent explanation of a main line stoppage

@gregvancom

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Thank you for a really clear explanation! ❤

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

Worked perfectly

Thank you so much. This was so helpful.

Thank you

This is exactly what is happening to my plumbing right now. The two showers, the tub and toilets are filling with water but my sinks are all draining just fine. I know what I need to do now. Thank you!

@gregvancom

9 ай бұрын

Awesome and you're welcome.

@mrmrjims3865

7 ай бұрын

what di you do?

@susanhunwick5625

4 ай бұрын

My toilet is going in my bathtub. All the rest on the sinks are fine. So going under the house to snake out the line is what needs to be done.? Right? How long of a snake would I need?

@3sha214

4 ай бұрын

Can you include if the washer overflows too? I think that means it’s clogged there first. Can you show a simulation too I want to see the full pic where the clog might be.

This video was perfect ..

Thank you for this super informative animation!

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

Thanks! Great diagram

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

this was very halpful tank you

This video was incredibly helpful!! There's always been gurgling from the bath drain whenever I use the sink, and today it took hours for a showers worth of water to go down and brown water was coming up too. I think I might have a partial block in the main pipe and reading these comments is making me want to sort it out asap so it doesn't get any worse

After torrential rains here in maine my shower in the lower level overflowed with water and dirt. I drained the tub and floor with a wet vac, and the shower drain as well. I put a 6ft hand snake in. I can use the the sink, flush the toilet, but the water level in the shower pipe will not raise. WHen i turn on the shower the water does not drain and backs up. I have city sewer not septic. I'm stumped.... Any ideas??

Thank you so much for the information I was wondering what was happening great video great information thank you so much

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Wow! Excellent video!!! it's snake time for me!

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

Good luck!

Forest Statham, this was an excellent explanation and I am 80 yrs old and understand it. Thank you , nice video.

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks for the video and the way you used the diagram to explain clearly!!!

@gregvancom

9 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

What’s your suggestion if having a clogged with a septic tank

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?

Exactly my situation right now. Every time the toilet is flushed, it backs up and comes out into my tub. Have had 2 different plumbers try snaking it and they were useless. Landlord is also useless. Idk what to do anymore. Would be nice to take a shower smh

@gregvancom

11 ай бұрын

Bummmer.

@arfetherussian

6 ай бұрын

Did you figure this out ?

@Tarantula_Fangs

6 ай бұрын

That sounds like a nightmare!! What ended up happening??? Hope it all worked out for you.

I have a bathroom at the other side of the tub in your photo? Two bathrooms on each side of this tub. Can you recomemend a snake to try? My tub fills up when my washer drains which is in the bathroom as well. I am a female on a low budget and have done most of my work myself. This is a bit more for me to figure out.

Periodically I get this issue when we use the washing machine . For the most part it drains properly but at other times water will start to come up in the bathtub and at the base of toilet. I have to clear the issue at the clean out access outside. I have to plunge out the “ air pocket” . I have snaked the pipes , used main line cleaner and root kill . I have even used the drain snake to check my vent pipes on the roof. I still get this problem at least once a month.

@clwest3538

21 күн бұрын

Same. My house was remodeled (prior to my purchase) and they added a washing machine up line from the kitchen sink (start of drainage). When the washer drains, kitchen gurgles, then everything dumps into tub. However, I can manually dump the water into the toilet and all goes down fine (no leakage); Guessing my clog forms around the tub joint - I have been working on getting it to melt (baking soda and boiling water over the course of a few days - I do not use this line in my house at this time except to do laundry). Now it backs up into tub, but then immediately drains out. As I am in a remodel now - thinking on just having all the plumbing redone correctly.

Thanks!!!!!

@gregvancom

3 ай бұрын

Happy to help

I am sure it is the same as in the video, If i use the kitchen sink for a bit, the tub will start to fill, it drains but its very slow (30+mins), I've dumped clog remover down bathroom tub drain, that didn't work. Would it be advisable to do another drain cleaner, but from the the kitchen sink. If, yes, would I want to do this after letting the water fill up the tub a bit or with a dry pipe? (calling a plumber or snaking it myself, is next option). please help. Thank you

In our house the kitchen sink comes first, then the main bathroom second from right to left and we recently use the kitchen sink water the shower water comes up with black dirt water…. What can it be? If the sink pipe comes first then connects to the bathroom.

Why water 'be' coming out...lol I love it

It happened to my toilet, water coming out when taking a shower last week. I rented an electric 50 foot auger from Home Depot. It did cost me only about $75 to take care of the problem. 😊

@arthurmarin5726

8 ай бұрын

How many feet do you put in ?

@dnguyen787

8 ай бұрын

@@arthurmarin5726 all 50 feet. :-)

That's happening to me now. BTW, my garage needs 11' of framing replaced at the door opening due to termite damage and it involves the top plate. I've yet to see a video that shows how to replace a damaged top plate and how splice in the new. The entire rough opening around the garage door needs to be replaced, about all that can be salvaged is the sill plate which is pressure treated by code because it is directly on concrete. If I attempt myself without a building permit the front of the garage facing the street will be opened up for 5 days and code enforcement likely to ask questions on a routine drive-by. The permit application asks for a contractor license and I don't think me studying KZread videos will qualify so I may need to hire a contractor. Looking at $5K.

@gregvancom

10 ай бұрын

Bummmmmmmer, time for the drain snake.

I remember a time when I'd be watching a double feature at the drive in on Saturday night. Maybe even a Pink Panther cartoon! What happened to my life? 😉

@gregvancom

2 жыл бұрын

Drive in, you just gave away your age?????

@charles9571

Жыл бұрын

You got old, like me

What if I have a septic? Is it time to pump the septic?

Hey really appreciate quick question Any chance water or anything gonna come out when I go to snake it ?

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

It can.

What would be your suggestion if the blockage is caused by a frozen blockage

@gregvancom

6 ай бұрын

I've heard salt or a mixture of salt and water might help.

Mine’s floods when using the washer both the bath tub and both toilets

Right after my plumber threw my bath tub lever off track the bath tub was stopped up I was asking him to help me fix the toilet because the water was running and the turn off water valve was broken water pressure was messed up The Bath Tub Clog few months later called the plumber again I watched him the whole time so he didn't touch my toilet while unclogging my bath tub

I've had plumber come twice. Finally got the toilet draining into septic tank but now that I've reattached the overflow for tub the tub isn't draining into tank. But after a few minutes it's not filling up tub. So confused. Must have a clog after the overflow in shower pipe?

@Sterling_arboretum

Жыл бұрын

Five days ago I had about 2 inches of sewage in the bathtub and the toilet was overflowing badly. For reference

Right now my toilets water is rising too much after each flush and I have water that comes up into my bath tubs every time I flush or use the sinks too. Any suggestions or know the reasoning ? Got a lot of snow last week

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

It could be a frozen or clogged drain, that's my best guess.

My plumbers have told me that there is a dip or swoop from my half bath sewage pipes to the clean out traps. The sewage line for the full bath are along those same lines. So the swoop or dip in the pipes under the ground are difficult to clear the pipes when toilet paper is built up on there. Have you heard of this and is this true? What is the permanent solution? They can come out every six months to get it flushed clear by getting on the roof. What Else can be done? This has been happening since 2015. Please help. Thanks

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

It might be cheaper to have them clean it out every once in a while, but I would get an estimate from a few different plumbers to figure out whether or not it will be better to fix it and if this is really the problem.

@poopywelder

Жыл бұрын

Either keep paying to get it cleaned as preventative maintenance or just do an expensive repipe and be done with it

@joylondon9005

4 ай бұрын

I had this type of problem after my husband died and he was a homebuilder and I in my stupidity had the county come out and they said it was not their problem because my house is on a hill and anything away from the curb is mine and some plumbers came out and said it was the entire pipeline and they had to replace that Which I did and now approximately 12 years later, I’m running into a similar problem but this time it’s only when I use the washing machine and then I get the back up in two toilets, and the bathtub that I had before last time there was sewage this time it’s just dirt water and I can see some hair but I don’t know what type of hair it is so I don’t know if it’s the washing machine and can you put Drano in a washing machine, I mean it does drain, but it backs up somewhere I don’t wanna be taken in again

@Kloops

4 ай бұрын

@@joylondon9005 I am so sorry that’s happening. I was told to get rock salt like for ice cream machines and flush in my toilet once a week about half a cup maybe? Because that hair might be thin roots. And salt kills roots. I saw what i thought was hair but it was roots. Good luck. I am so sorry. Might have to have the plumbers come out and snake the line from the roof to see if that helps. It did for me a few times.

@joylondon9005

4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for responding, but in all honesty I don’t know what to do. I’ve used a full huge bottle of Drano doesn’t work at all. I pulled out some hair from the lever area of the bathtub. I don’t know if it’s hair hair or root hair and now a toilet in the 1/2bathroom will not drain. It keeps on moving around somehow, but it always gets started by the washing machine that’s twice now first time I could clear it out now I can’t and it always happens when it’s very rainy if that has anything to do with it? I could see if I was on a floodplain area but I’m up on a hill??

I live in a high rise-my tub is back to back with my neighbor’s. For the past few months every time she takes a bath and drains her tub, a small amount of water comes up into my tub thru my tub drain. Plumber says it’s because the pipes between our apts. have settled at an angle. Would be a major fix involving cutting through my downstairs neighbor’s ceiling. He said I can just keep my bathtub stopper “closed” so the water can’t come up. Would that cause a problem?

@gregvancom

6 ай бұрын

It's difficult to know for sure. It sounds more like an inconvenience than a potential plumbing problem in the future.

OMG 12:47am my bathtub alarm started going off. NO ONE was using the sink or toilet and starting filling up the bath tub. WTH? Where else could the water be coming from. The only thing being used right now is the A/C. This happen one time before when we had a water MAIN leak.

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if the drain pipe could be clogged and backing up. I've never seen what you're describing, but would love to see a picture if you had one.

@diamond6256

Жыл бұрын

@@gregvancom It was clogged Drano, took care of it. Easy peasy

@ImPlague

Жыл бұрын

I have an interesting one for you, 2 months city and several plumbers. Backthub backups randomly with sewage and toilet starts to fill even with no use during the day of any sinks etc. After a while will slowly drain return to normal and function no problem. All sinks function no problem. City says nothing wrong their end all plumbers said cleanout is fine and pipes with camera is fine. Still can't figure it out and scared to use something like liquid fire etc. Also sewage thins each time.

@diamond6256

Жыл бұрын

@@ImPlague Great info. At least mine is crystal clear water. I am thankful for the foresight I had to get an water alarm to put in my tub that warns me when it starts getting water, BEFORE it ruins my hardwood floors in that bathroom. I do however have the blueprints to my home, but it does not show plumbing, I looked. I have no idea why.

@diamond6256

Жыл бұрын

I don't have a picture of my bathtub FULL of water, sorry. I went into fix it quick mode. LOL plunged the tub and drano and it drained.

Are the cleanouts in a typical location? I have a small 1 toilet house in concrete slab. Bath tub wall is shared with washer dryer room.

@gregvancom

Ай бұрын

They are usually in walls, floors or under your house if you have a crawlspace.

I have question, is it possible if when i use the sink, the water in the bathtub did not rise up? Is yes, may i know what is the problem then. 😖😩

@gregvancom

11 ай бұрын

Yes, try cleaning sink drain lines first.

I snaked my toilet to main line and seems like water is going down fine now and nothing filling up. I did take the tub stopper off to check for hair or dirt as well. Lots of hair… cleaned it out. There is a little bit of water that sits in the drain under where the stopper would be…. But the tub drains fine… is that normal?

@gregvancom

11 ай бұрын

It shouldn't be there, but since it would be difficult to figure out why it's there, you might consider leaving it alone.

@Relyk711

4 ай бұрын

There is typically a little piece of U pipe there to prevent gas smells from coming back up shower/tub drains, water remains in the small U at all times

My question is as a Highrise renter first time. I did not use any water and I have water that has come into my bath tub. Am I have to pay for plummer .I do not put anything in my tube to clog it. Not knowingly .I even brush my hair first before bath.

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

Contact your rental manager and let them know about your problems. It could be something easy to fix.

@karenharris3183

Жыл бұрын

@@gregvancom I think they fixed it , was ok today

@clamar8003

Жыл бұрын

Hi I am having same problem but my landlord is not fixing it as he says building manager needs to fix, they have been doing work on the drains outside but is not fixed. What did they do for you please? Also in high rise

@karenharris3183

Жыл бұрын

@@clamar8003 I got no idea. They do not tell me .

@justincosta48

11 ай бұрын

Same issue here. In a duplex. Upper. Landlord here is a POS. This is crazy smh

Both my sink and bathtub are filling up with water but not the toilet. Makes no sense. Help?

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

See if this helps kzread.info/dash/bejne/haedspqxpcrRfbg.html

I have a standing bath with no p trap and the water stagnants in tub drain. It's gross and annoying, I take a shower and the smell goes away but comes back overnight.

How about if you were using the shower in the other bathroom across the mobile home and it's causing flooding in the opposite bathroom we've tried the snake in both bathrooms

@hulkbeast1302

29 күн бұрын

Probably gotta call the plumber lol thank you for posting I was so clueless

@gregvancom

28 күн бұрын

It sounds like the possible clogged pipe will be further down the drain line and you will need to run the snake further down.

It's my sink and bathtub not my toilet

How do you fix it, what the answer? Plumber charge by the hour, can we fix our self.

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

If you have a local rental center, they can usually provide the tools and instruction to use a drain snake.

@ecofaith4376

Жыл бұрын

I was hoping he had advice on how to fix it ourselves.

water is not coming out of the drain, its coming up through drain. haha

@gregvancom

2 жыл бұрын

Or it's coming up and out of the drain:)

I got poop coming out my shower drain. FML!!

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

Probably a clogged drain pipe.

@thelmagriffin5851

Жыл бұрын

Oh No so unhealthy

This happened to me a 2nd time, I live in an apartment.

It’s comin out of my sink and bathtub when is plunge toilet.

@gregvancom

6 ай бұрын

Sounds like a clogged drain pipe.

What if the toilet is flushing fine.

@gregvancom

6 ай бұрын

It might be another fixture in the line. If you are using another sink, toilet or wash machine, go and see if it's forcing water out of the bathtub.

It would be nice to see a shower in the drawings with all other fixtures

@gregvancom

Жыл бұрын

Can I ask why?

@Alibern7

Жыл бұрын

@@gregvancom to be able to fix each specific bathroom

If you take a dump big enough to plug the sewer line, get to a doctor quickly.