Claudia, Did your friend try a conventional snake through that line? Occasionally those snakes with the driven power heads on them will not negotiate sharp turns in the suer line. Secondly is there any way you can force compressed air down that drain to see if it escapes through other drains in the house? Do you know if that line has a dedicated cleanout port that you might be able to get some kind of a hand snake through? I have exhausted my entire plumbing knowledge base at this point however, there are some really proficient plumber types that are subscribed to this list and I am certain that one of them will be of far more help.
Good luck Larry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Claudia Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Very Upset Here! Hello, I am a new poster, and I have the following problem and sure could use any ideas, on the subject! Thanks. However, we have a major problem on our hands! We've been having difficulty, when washing clothes lately. When we wash, there is a drain underneath the basins, where the hose from the washing machine empties into! That has been backing up, as of late. So, we called a friend who is a plumber, for one of our neighboring cities, and he came out to try to solve our problem! He ran a machine through the main water line, of course, getting out grass and roots, as there are trees, as part of our property! That line was now clean, and water traveled through that, without any problems. However, when he went to put the machine through the drain right underneath the wash basins, he couldn't get it past eight feet; something is stuck there, and he couldn't get it to go any further! His thought was that we might have to break up the floor, to see why that drain is stuck and possibly replace pipe! I don't know much about plumbing, but this doesn't seem to be sewer water or anything like that; I think the water from our kitchen sinks and bathrooms drains into the main water line, so I'm thinking that that isn't the problem! If any of you know of a handyman list to send this to, please let me know! Thanks. Claudia Join either of my groups; the first is for visually-impaired women, while the other is for people wishing to discuss homemaking issues. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following address for more information: http://www.jaws-users.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach InfoWest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 151627045) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=151627045&m=3db23cf97812&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=151627045&m=3db23cf97812&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=151627045&m=3db23cf97812&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
