Clogged Sewer? Clogged Drain? Sewer Plumbing Problems? Home Improvement Issues? Submit them to win an IPOD TOUCh

Don't let the drain clog

I use ahanger to geet the hair out of the drian mechanisms, then use a cleaning product

#236 - Marilyn Wons - 03/06/2010 - 08:04

Draino?

What do you think about Draino? Is it safe?

#235 - Priscilla P. - 03/02/2010 - 22:28

It's Good

all good here...everything flowing normally! :-)

#234 - Roy Cagle - 03/02/2010 - 16:07

Shower Leak into Pantry/Basement

Our shower leaked and because it's over the kitchen in the main floor, ALL the water from the shower SOMEHOW leaked into our pantry and wet all the food! It ALSO leaked through the pantry into the basement and rotted all the carpet, so we had to get that replaced as well as the shower! :-(

#233 - Martina - 02/23/2010 - 17:12

over flowing sumpums

well on day when i woke the basment was floded i alway sleep on the chouch i got my feet wet >-( i was so mad

#232 - Aynsley.Kuik - 02/23/2010 - 14:49

plumbing/shower issues

A neighborhood waterline broke, and we 'showered' with bottled water. Cool, refreshing, and shiny hair to boot!

#231 - kathy french - 02/23/2010 - 11:24

Plumbbbbbbbbbbbbbber

once when i started taking a shower, the shower stopped. and so then we called the plumber and he fixed it like in a day or two. I was really thankful too him! :-D

#230 - BIMBACLUTT - 02/20/2010 - 08:35

The toilet backed up at our house and flooded the bathroom floor. After using buckets to get out the water, the smell stayed for what seemed like forever!!

#229 - Jacquitta Boone - 02/18/2010 - 11:29

Gray Water Back Up

When my washer spins water out, the water backs up in my bathtub and my kitchen sink. Whats up with that? :-o

#228 - Priscilla Pursell - 02/08/2010 - 00:20

Dug up the street

About three years ago the sewer company had to dig up the street in front of our house to replace the pipe. When liad in new there was a belly in the pipe and over time it just built up until on day it clooged. It was cool to see the pipe on video.

#227 - Marilyn Wons - 02/07/2010 - 08:02

I woke up to a funny noise. That was coming from under the bathroom sink. Opened the door and water was spraying everywhere. The shut off valve had blown.

#226 - Annette Taylor - 02/04/2010 - 14:34

TUB DRAIN

ONCE WHEN I TOOK A BATH, THE CEILING IN THE KITCHEN STARTED SPRAYING WATER. WHEN THE PLUMBER CAM TO FIX THE LEAKING WATER, HE SAID THAT THE PIPE UP TO THE SECOND FLOOR TUB HAD JUST BEGUN LEAKING BECAUSE IT WAS OLD AND THE TUB IS RARELY USED. AFTER HE FIXED IT, IT HASN'T LEAKED SINCE THEN. THANK-YOU FOR READING, I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE THE IPOD BECAUSE I RECENTLY LOST A $400 TOUCH AND CANNOT REPLACE IT (NO MORE MONEY).

#225 - Lara Edgar - 02/03/2010 - 21:06

life

i live with a pllumber and i have to do the plumbing myself

#224 - heidi - 02/03/2010 - 05:22

No Issues

It's all good here. Can't complain. Everything Works!

#223 - Roy Cagle - 02/02/2010 - 15:50

tile

When redoing my bathroom the workers broke my slab of granite in half. I was pissed >-(

#222 - Ian Shoemaker - 01/31/2010 - 22:16

Sweaty pipes

In the summer the pipes in the basement ceiling drip all over everything.

#221 - Polly Hall - 01/31/2010 - 08:44

Flood

one day in the first week of august we had a huge flood in our basement because of a sewage backup and all this dirty water started coming out of the toilet and the sinks
the water was 4 feet high>-( we had to bucket out all the water it took us 2 weeks to take out everything from the basement :oops:

#220 - Junayd - 01/30/2010 - 13:09

shower

the shower is hot then cold every 5 minutes!

#219 - Joyce C - 01/29/2010 - 09:17

My bathroom has suddenly been giving off a foul odor.

#218 - R Hicks - 01/27/2010 - 14:01

Kitchen sink leak

Kitchen sink pipe leaks, I don't know whether to glue it closed or try to tighten it more with a wrench. If I glue it, I'll never be able to take it apart.

#217 - Katt Lewis - 01/27/2010 - 09:00

slow toilet

Why is it that my toilet takes 3 flushes to get rid of the stuff!

#216 - vonnie morgan - 01/21/2010 - 18:39

Ceiling Fan

My brother and I installed 3 ceiling fans together last week. We saved $210 by doing it ourselves. It is not so hard. You just follow the instructions. And if you do face any problems, YouTube and Google can help a lot.
Have fan DIY, guys.

#215 - Yaping Wang - 01/21/2010 - 08:55

Toilet

Now here's a disaster from two months ago. Me and my mum were taking showers in our bathrooms. Suddenly there was water everywhere- it was coming up from my toilet! The water went from my bathroom to first floor AND basement, decks and floors were destroyed, we had to replace the kitchen cabinets, the huge drying things were in our house for 3 weeks, they sound like a freaking aeroplane. It took us a month to clean everything, the cost of destruction was in thousands of dollars... And they still don't know why it happened. Life.

#214 - Anita - 01/18/2010 - 20:26

bathroom sink

the sink will not come unclogged, ive used drano a few times and it will work for about a week, and thats it!

#213 - cheryl - 01/05/2010 - 11:24

Mrs

I to be very careful not to put things in the disposal that clog it and then remember to run it.

#212 - Marilyn Wons - 01/05/2010 - 06:46

Children

Neighborhood children often go on adventures in our local sewer. This is dangerous and unsanitary. The opening is 2ft high, though, so it is easy for them to get away with it.

#211 - Robert McGill - 01/04/2010 - 09:07

We are having intermittent problems with the kitchen drain not draining properly.

#210 - Marilyn Brenden - 01/03/2010 - 22:44

Ms

I don't understand why my washing machine water is backing up into my bathtub.

#209 - Priscilla P. - 01/02/2010 - 22:58

Outside Pipes

I'm just happy that I don't have to worry about covering up and insulating the exposed outside pipes quite yet, but in another day or 2 I might!

#208 - Roy Cagle - 01/01/2010 - 20:13

Mrs

WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CHANGING AN OLD TOILET OUT OF A BATHROOM DUE TO THE SIZE. HOW CAN I MEASURE TO GET THE PROPER SIZE TO FIT WHAT IS ALREADY THERE? IF I GET THE WRONG SIZE, THEN I MAY HAVE ISSUE WITH IT NOT FLUSHING PROPERLY OR LEAKING.

#207 - Diane McMahon - 12/31/2009 - 16:02

Septic overflow

My husband won't pay to get our septic system pumped out because his parents have never had to get their's pumped in 30 years or something. It's already backed up into the bathtubs once but he just dug it up and took the lid off to let out some pressure then covered it back up. I'm just hoping we sell our house before the next big rain!

#206 - Lisa Edwards - 12/31/2009 - 12:04

I hate low flow

Nothing worse than a low flow toilet

#205 - Brenda Freeman - 12/31/2009 - 08:41

sewer backed up this month

#204 - R Schulz - 12/30/2009 - 19:46

vent pipes

I installed maxie vents instead of going threw the roof

#203 - robert decker - 12/30/2009 - 12:36

Gray Water Back Up

When my washer spins water out, the water backs up in my bathtub and my kitchen sink. Whats up with that? :-o

#202 - Priscilla Pursell - 12/29/2009 - 23:13

Front Yard

My waterline broke. Then my sewer line needed replaced shortly thereafter.

#201 - Kevin Irvin - 12/29/2009 - 16:32

hair clog

My hair is constantly clogging up my bathtub drain.. :-[]

>-(

#200 - alice - 12/27/2009 - 18:52

Upgrade your toilet to one with more flush power, 8 or above.

#199 - John Gill Sr - 12/25/2009 - 16:03

New Pipes

Installed a drain from my front yard to our channel in back. No more flooding!

#198 - Andrew Gordon - 12/22/2009 - 11:12

just gpt a low flow toilet

#197 - Jennifer gersch - 12/20/2009 - 15:20

Sewer

We just had our sewer pipe cleaned out recently since there were roots blocking it almost 80 ft from the house...

#196 - David Dylis - 12/19/2009 - 18:58

Low flush

We installed low flush toilets when we renovated

#195 - poster - 12/17/2009 - 05:49

flooding

I and my parents just moved into a new house and everytime it rains our basement floods and we get to clean it up. we have had multiple people come out look art the issue and simply say there is nothing to do.

#194 - chris gathof - 12/15/2009 - 08:55

my hairbrush felt in the toilet.>-(

#193 - VALERIE - 12/13/2009 - 14:42

low flush toilets

We recently installed a low flush toilet and am glad to be contributing to the water conservation in California

#192 - michel - 11/15/2009 - 17:57

mMy sewere stinks, needs to be emptied

#191 - Jennifer gersch - 11/13/2009 - 15:35

home improvement

We just had our septic pumped two weeks ago. It was pretty disgusting. - Son just replaces the toilet seat.

#190 - christy morris - 11/12/2009 - 06:55

shower

my shower is way to cold :-(

#189 - jonathan - 11/10/2009 - 12:03

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#188 - rentalicon - 11/08/2009 - 09:07

I am currently on once a week watering restrictions...that being my only current issue.I have no real current sewer issues.

#187 - Roy Cagle - 11/07/2009 - 16:19

low flow

Low flow are good!

#186 - Marilyn Wons - 11/07/2009 - 11:11

bad luck dog

my friend had to chance is septic tank but one think she dont saw its his dog fall in the hole so...you know he dead now :oops:

#185 - Cynthia - 11/04/2009 - 09:12

Kitchen sink/toilet bowl mix-up?

While renovating our new house, we had to use the bathroom quite a bit. You see, my family was redoing the whole house ourselves, so we spent the entire day there. We had the plumbing and piping hastily done before we started - we had plans to get it done proper after we moved in.
So my mom was in the kitchen, by the sink chopping cheese and veggies for sandwiches for our snack, and meanwhile my little sister was taking her time in the main bathroom. I had to go too and a split second before I pounded on the door, my sis screamed.
She was screaming something about a monster and when I opened the door, I saw green leafy things floating in the bowl. As I was staring, a yellow cube popped up. My mother's cheese.
It was gross. I don't know how it happened but when we re-did the piping afterwards, we made pretty sure the pipes ran through their respective connections.
:-o

#184 - Lucy - 11/03/2009 - 02:41

one day i was going to the toilet when it started overflowing i was flooded with pee and poo it was absoultely disgusting
>-(>-(

#183 - lachlan schofield - 11/02/2009 - 00:45

Finally had to replace our toilet.Our new toilet sometimes catches and water never stops after it is flushed until I open the top and unloose the stopper to end the water flow.

#182 - John Gill Sr - 10/29/2009 - 14:41

just worn out

my kitchen sink is almost impossible to clean,it is getting old and needs to be replaced, as do the faucets.

#181 - joan - 10/27/2009 - 19:04

Toilet Wasting Water

Our toilet keeps running and never stops after it is flushed. We have to take the lid off and jiggle things to get it to work.

#180 - Alecia Gibson - 10/27/2009 - 13:17

Never emptied septic tank, hope it doesnt overflow

#179 - Jennifer gersch - 10/18/2009 - 13:25

Spetic

We just purchased a home 3 months ago. We have a spetic system. We live on a slight hill. Every day there is a puddle of water at the base of the hill. Could this mean our Spetic is leaking? We had an inspection and they said all was a-ok.

#178 - Susan Pagan - 10/15/2009 - 06:51

hair

I have very long thick hair and my shower clogs up almost every month. It's really gross digging the hair out and Drano sometimes works. Is this normal?

#177 - Ally - 10/14/2009 - 22:56

Sewer

>-(

My sewer (leach bed) is showing up in four diff places in my one acre back yard. Makes mowing very difficult. I added yeast to my toilet and flushed each month for the past 3 months but doesn't seem to affect it any.

#176 - Natalie Thornsberry - 10/13/2009 - 15:38

every couple of months

>-(
every couple of months my shower starts filling up w/ water and i have to pludge my shower drain and all this black crap comes out, disgusting.

#175 - alain charlier - 10/12/2009 - 14:11

Contest

no problems here B-)

#174 - Robin Poindexter - 10/11/2009 - 22:33

I saw on TV

I saw a show on TV about a woman that went on a cruise in 1986 on a ship called the 'Pegasus'. This ship had new 'vacuum system toilets' and one night she went to the bathroom and flushed while she was still sitting down and the force of the vacuum sucked her intestines out!! Somehow they got her off the ship and to a hospital and she was okay after they did surgery to put everything back inside. Scary though!

#173 - Clark P. - 10/11/2009 - 19:01

Low Flow toilets

I hate the low flow toilets. I wish we didn't have them, I miss the toilets we had in the 1980's, they were so much more powerful!

#172 - Charlotte - 10/11/2009 - 18:53

No water

The day after xmas we had no water at all around mid-day. I called the water company 7andthey were not having any problems. But they said they would come out & do a check, they could always be a blockage or a water main leak. They came out and all was good.

I called a plumber & it turned out that brine from the water softener.

#171 - Bridget Castilla - 10/11/2009 - 17:37

Blue toilet cleaners

The blue toilet cleaners are corrosive

#170 - Craig Dean - 10/08/2009 - 17:20

sewer back up

I just recently decided to get tenents for my basement appartment. Well it was fine for a week, but this weekend my sewer decided to get clogged and the rain did not help. My tenents had just moved in so they had bags of cloths and boxes with there things still on the floor. Well needless to say the sewer water ran all the way into the basement apartment and wet everything!!! ugg.. I tried to fix it my self with no avail so today i called $49.95... HELP ME PLEASE!! :oops:

#169 - lisa - 10/05/2009 - 18:19

Hot water heater overfolw

Make sure the over flow is working properly.

#168 - Marilyn Wons - 10/05/2009 - 16:54

How to save money

Another tip is that if you don't want to put a brick in your toilet, you can put a empty two liter bottle (refilled with water and capped tight) in the toilet. It will work same as the brick method but it is softer to the porcelin. Thank you for offering this great sweepstakes!!

#167 - Clark - 10/03/2009 - 11:37

Our Bathroom

Years ago we had a toilet that became loose from the flooring. It was scary, I'd use it and think the toilet was gonna fall over, lol. Finally my husband fixed it!

#166 - Charlotte - 10/03/2009 - 11:33

Septic Tank

My family had a problem with our septic tank and the whole yard hard to be dug up :/ it sucked everything was a mess and stunk really bad yuck it was so horrible and cost a lot of money blah :-(

#165 - Clinton - 10/01/2009 - 21:48

Bathroom

My tub is an old iron bear claw tub, the paint is chipping and it is easily stained, no matter how much I scrub, it still appears filthy..I would LOVE a solution >-(

#164 - Cathy Fassett - 10/01/2009 - 02:56

My toilet leaks water (drips) into basement. Why?

#163 - R Hicks - 09/30/2009 - 12:15

I'm careful never to pour grease down the kitchen drain!

#162 - Christine V - 09/29/2009 - 04:19

Shower Noise

We have a sound when the shower is turned. no one has figured out what is causing the problem.

#161 - esther - 09/28/2009 - 19:46

Air Conditioning Drain

We had a cement sidewalk put in and they somehow covered the central air conditioning drain pipe, which noone realized. Holes had to be drilled in the exposed area of the drain above the ground to correct the problem.

#160 - John Gill Sr - 09/28/2009 - 19:27

ahhh

>-( My toilet was clogged not to long ago and i fixed it my self and i found a toy rubber duck inside that probably my daughter put it inside and a week later it got clogged so im calling a plumber to fix it

#159 - Adan - 09/20/2009 - 23:18

Winter Woes

Sometimes our pipes will freeze in the winter and the sewer will backup into the house. Yuk! Here's hoping for a warm winter!

#158 - Alecia Gibson - 09/12/2009 - 16:57

Mrs

The builder didn't insullate over one room in our house. To get at it my husband has to open a wall section. We will probably replace the space with a removable bookcase.

#157 - Marilyn Wons - 09/07/2009 - 16:44

Yeah for sewers!

I have always lived in a house with city sewers...Never had a problem with any plumbing.....WEll, that was all about to change. My family moved to our new house. What none of us realized was that we had a septic tank. I had never heard of one of those, but boy did I learn fast. Besides myself, I had my sister and sister in law staying in my home....thats three woman who were all used to flushing our feminine products down the toilet, after all the box dose say flushable. Well after a while every time I would run the dishwasher I would smell this terrible smell coming from outside...I discovered a puddle. I went online and realized what our problem must be....In the long wrong we ended up having to replace the entire drain field, and now we take excellent care of our plumbing!

#156 - Melissa Christanto - 09/07/2009 - 14:57

Our shower heads are all limed up and need to be repplaced, what is an easy way to do this.

#155 - joan rice - 09/07/2009 - 11:16

Plumbing Problem

Our house is on a concrete slab, and the pipes run under it. A leak is a major problem.

#154 - Anson Young - 09/05/2009 - 07:33

Driveway Drainage

I have no drainage in the area I live. All water piles up at end of driveways. I dug 2 small dry wells and added gravel for drains, (one on either side at end of drive).

#153 - Roy Cagle - 09/04/2009 - 14:43

Flooded driveway

We had a grate in our front driveway to handle the water coming down. It never worked. One day we discovered the pipe led to nowhere. We actually trenched and attached the pipe about 50 feet back into our channel. Problem solved.

#152 - Andrew Gordon - 09/02/2009 - 09:46

strainer

I use a strainer for my kitchen sink and does it keep the plumbers away.

#151 - Sandi Smith - 09/01/2009 - 14:29

Septic Tank full

Our spetic tank is tied into sewer and was full. We had it emptied but had to empty all of the pipes in the house manually to clear pipes - yuck! Took all day.

#150 - Roman Gonzalez Jr. - 08/31/2009 - 18:18

Toilets Clogged!

When we lived in a brand new house, our toilets would get clogged ALL THE TIME!! It was very frustrating!

#149 - Maddie - 08/31/2009 - 16:40

Leaky Toilet

Our toilet continuously gurgles and seeps.

#148 - Deci Worland - 08/30/2009 - 19:09

oops!

Once, I dropped a pencil into the toilet...oops. ;-)

#147 - M M G - 08/30/2009 - 10:57

We have a problem with the toilet flushing all by itself! I will never get used to it. I jump every time I hear it...especially if I am home alone! Oh, and since it's the toilet in the master bath, it's just a joy when it happens during the night. My husband sleeps right through it...but not me!

#146 - claudette flanigan - 08/30/2009 - 07:40

Not clogged, but...

One day, our toilet and our washing machine were both being used at the same time. Then, water from the toilet and the washing machine began coming up through the shower drain! We were flabbergasted, and called a plumber service, because we couldn't "plunge" it. The plumber couldn't figure it out, either. Finally, we remembered that earlier that week, the local utility service had done some work on the pipes near our house. We had the utility service come out, and it turned out that they forgot to cut us a hole in the big pipe so that our used water could flow out. All the water had just been sitting in our pipe all week! :-D

#145 - Madaud - 08/30/2009 - 06:06

Cracked Serammics

We had a cracked serammic in our shower which made water drip non stop. it would fill 1 bucket each day.

#144 - alexander - 08/28/2009 - 20:42

New Faucets

Replaced 2 faucets. One was leaking bad as soon as it was installed and the second one had a defective hot water connection. had to replace both the second time.

#143 - John Gill Sr - 08/27/2009 - 20:07

phone fell down a sewer

Here's what went down. The phone fell out of my wife's hands it hit the sewer grate. The back plate of the phone opened up. The battery popped out and fell down. The rest of the phone was perfectly fine but not usable without a battery. Unfortunately it was an older phone so finding a battery will be next to impossible!

#142 - Terence - 08/27/2009 - 17:28

drains

I always clog up the shower drain with my hair!

#141 - Sarah - 08/26/2009 - 18:11

MY SHOW-ERRRRRRRRR........

OH TALKING ABOUT MY SHOWER.......IT'S LIKE SHOW-ERRR..... MY SHOW-ERRR... ALWAYS USE SOME KIND OF JOKES WITH ME AND MY FAMILY....for ex WHEN I USE MY TOWEL IT SUDDENLY START LEAKIN ON MY BODY.......IT PLAY SOME KIND HIDE AND SEEK....???
WHEN I LOOK UP IT SEEM THAT HE LAUGHING ON ME.......>-(>-(>-(>-( :-[]

>-(

#140 - Himanshu Solanki - 08/26/2009 - 11:04

Bad plumming

Talk about a bad bathroom...my shower only runs hot water in the summer an luke warm in the winter...it's a basement apartment so when everything backs up I see it first...an the pressure so bad that I have to pour water down the toilet when I flush

#139 - Chris crespo - 08/26/2009 - 06:49

Where to start haha

My shower goes cold even before you flush the toilet lol I dont think i have one light in my house on the ceiling.They are all lamps lol.The bathroom is everyones bathroom.Even the cats and my ferrets they have thier own litter box in there haha.The dryer takes about 6 runs to dry my cloths lol.my deck looks like someone lit it on fire then put it out with gasoline.my carpets has brown spots from god knows what think thats about it lol Would love to have a ipod touch.As you can see i dont have much maybe i could go on a cleaning spree with a little music in my ears.Thnx!!

#138 - Kevin Napier - 08/25/2009 - 16:02

Hard Water

Here in the South we have a serious problem with hard water which helps the ongoing sale of water softeners, but copper pipes still develop pin-hole leaks!

#137 - Roy Cagle - 08/23/2009 - 15:53

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