Bathroom plumbing oddity?
Discussion
I present myself in front of the PH fountain of knowledge perplexed and confused.
Our bathroom has a weird problem, the bath will drain slowly, but without a problem then it goes through periods of not draining at all, you can attack with a plunger where it will occasionally fire water back through the sink plug hole but seems to make no difference whatsoever. You can stick a load of sink and drain unblocker, no change.
Then one day, it will start draining perfectly with no persuasion. I have zero clue why it does this, thoughts?
Our bathroom has a weird problem, the bath will drain slowly, but without a problem then it goes through periods of not draining at all, you can attack with a plunger where it will occasionally fire water back through the sink plug hole but seems to make no difference whatsoever. You can stick a load of sink and drain unblocker, no change.
Then one day, it will start draining perfectly with no persuasion. I have zero clue why it does this, thoughts?
We have a similar problem.
Toilet and bath waste go into the stack and we get a gurgling in the bath trap when the toilet is flushed. Toilet also slow to empty.
If the bath trap is empied then the gurgling disappears and toilet empties normally.
We have a stubby air admittance valve on the soil pipe and have been told it’s either a sticky valve and needs replacing, or a blockage further down the pipe / drains.
No one can seem to determine which is more likely, so I guess we’re going to try the cheapest and easiest first, get a drain guy out. Doing the AAV will be a bath out job with all the tiles being sacrificed in the process.
Do you have an AAV on yours?
Toilet and bath waste go into the stack and we get a gurgling in the bath trap when the toilet is flushed. Toilet also slow to empty.
If the bath trap is empied then the gurgling disappears and toilet empties normally.
We have a stubby air admittance valve on the soil pipe and have been told it’s either a sticky valve and needs replacing, or a blockage further down the pipe / drains.
No one can seem to determine which is more likely, so I guess we’re going to try the cheapest and easiest first, get a drain guy out. Doing the AAV will be a bath out job with all the tiles being sacrificed in the process.
Do you have an AAV on yours?
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