Last night I shaved off my beard. It had been growing since before the superbowl, so it was quite a bit of hair. I was worried that if I ran it down the sink it would clog things up, so I scooped it all up and flushed it instead.
I have a clogged kitchen drain. There is a disposal on the sink. Running the disposal clear the sink, but the water line settles at the top of the disposal and will not go any lower. I took off the pipes and ran a 25 foot snake, all of it, and found nothing in the way.
I had a worn out disposal in a rental property once and it was just pushing the food down into the plumbing. Maybe you need to snake out your drain and replace the disposal??? Good luck, Ross
If you were using a little 1/4" cable-in-a-drum snake, it may not be big enuf to clear a kitchen drain. Often the gooey clog will simply congeal again after the snake leaves.
Rent a bigger hand-held powered snake with bigger cable and cutter. Also, make sure the snake actually goes *down* the drain and not *up* the vent (if it has a vent).
If you are certain there is no vent, you could use one of those expansion plugs that attach to a garden hose to flush the drain under pressure. This can be effective in some cases. Do NOT try it if there is a vent; you may flood the kitchen.
Jim's right here....check the vent next.....That is snake the vent from the roof...that cured some problems for me through the years.....good luck..Ross
Am I correct in assuming that the flood you refer to occurs when you take out the expansion plug without realizing that you've just pushed water up into and filled the ventpipe all the way to its tippy top?
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