clogged main line, understanding the house trap

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okay Lou depot back here again and i'm
going to try to explain to you how your
house waistline and says pull work and
how you would if you have 12 bowl is
backing up with your top is backing up
to get a good idea of what to do what to
look for
basically your house has a plumbing
system where it actually leaves the
toilet bulb and goes into the waistline
which leaves this is the basement by the
way with which leaves
I don't want to interfere with the
drawing which leaves the house but
before these us goes to the cesspool
there is a big cast-iron how strap and
then the waist what goes into the says
pull and this house chapel have two
definite things to let you know it's the
house check what it will have a friendly
event defense to the outside in the
garden somewhere
a2 will have two distinct plugs on it
now the clothes will leave the look of a
breast threaded plug like this and you
can see that or it may have the new
style fits all leg plug where it seems
like it's threaded and somebody just
happened it in with a hammer that's the
new way of doing it actually but it
basically will have a plug IDs on each
end and they do that for a reason one
plug goes toward the says pull or the
sewer the other plug goes toward the
house and basically what will happen
most times is the water can flow out in
the the toilet bowl back up with water
and there's basically two reasons why
that happens one
the trap itself clog the trap is there
because there's always water in it and
once there's water in it smell from the
cesspool gases from the cesspool can't
get back into your home
that's why that trap is there it's
filled with water and a lot of times it
will clog up and that's the main reason
why the bowl will will fill with water
it's a very easy fix if you were to
locate the house track for you can't
find the house shopping you want to
locate the house trap
you will walk around the outside of the
house and look for this event that is
absolutely right on the house it's about
two feet high and it's right on the
siding around the shingles and this is
the event once you see that that vent is
on the house that house trap is inside
the house either in the basement floor
in the crawl space or in the basement
right on the wall
one of the three that house trap is
inside if you see this
if the plumber decided to put the house
trap on the outside of the house and it
is not in the basement then that house
chap would be outside underneath the
dirt go into the cesspool like that
in that case here an event up through
the garden with a mushroom cap or a
simple return man which will look like
this and that will be to suck fresh air
and basically you walk around the
outside of the garden and you look for
something like this
it almost looks like a giant candy cane
and it'll either be white or it's a real
old house
it will be black in Castile and that'll
give you a good idea if you see this
that house trap is straight down in the
dirt right underneath this and you want
to get that house trap because you want
to get access to the to clean out plugs
these two plugs are the key to
everything once you get access to the
track and you open up the plugs and by
the way always open up the plug closest
to the cesspool
once you have this house track and it's
clogged
there's precious somewhere that you will
put up the house to the back
the one that stole closest to
toilet bowl and that one of balls back
it up there's water pressure in here and
if you open that plug in to get a very
dirty shower
so open up the plug closest to the
cesspool first and these plugs don't
open so easily but you can smash it with
a hammer and busted and bust him into
pieces and get them out and just buy a
go to Home Depot and buy a replacement
LED plug which just happens into the
hole
they look like threads but they're not
threads they just grooves and they tap
it with a hammer and seal the hole again
whatever it takes to get the plug out
either with eventual Smith should open
get the plug out and then you'll know
right away what's going on because you
leave the seat
the house trap will kind of not have
that much water in it here or it'll well
over the top and still water onto the
floor
if the house trap has no water right
there were very little water the water
is in high coming out of the threads of
the trap the decline is probably right
in here and you can simply stick a small
snake and then maybe put a big glove on
it stick your hand in there and clean it
out but whatever it takes that you see
right there be careful what you do that
all that water is coming it's coming
real quick
the other thing is the cesspool could be
full of those people think that if the
grass isn't wet by the way this is your
grass this is successful under lon that
the cesspool isn't full well that's not
true because it says pull only as the be
have a water level in it at the house
trap is here and goes into the pole here
the water level only has to be as high
as an entry pipe the pipe is he spills
water down into the pool but if your
water level is as high as the pipe your
flow depending on how deep the pool is
under the earth under Warren is to pay
them with the paint is if the pipe is
here and your water levels here
you're full you don't have to see water
on the grass to be full
sometimes
you do because the pipes are higher they
enter up high and by the time you are
full
because you are at the top but a lot of
times expression if there's a basement
in the house there's a bathroom in the
basement
you actually have a basement
how strapped in the basement and the
waistline going out low now that says
told only has to be full
- there to be full you could open up the
conference look down and see 10 foot of
air
it's still have a full so I open up the
plug on the house trap and cleaning out
here which is number one
if you do have water coming out of here
by the way when you open up that plugin
is jumping out and keeps coming
there's a clogged under the lawn or the
cesspools full one of the two but it's
that simple
there's either a clock on the lawn or
the says pulls full
if you don't have says pools and this
one goes all the way to the street
because you have a city soooo or a
County sewer and you get water out of
here when you open this plug-in it keeps
coming or it's very very full to the top
of the plug
there's a clog somewhere on the lawn if
you open up this plug and it seems like
there's no water no movement its kind of
low the water
there's a clog in here or going back to
the bowl and by the way if you don't
want these plugs and it seems fine
there's a good chance that the clock is
in the bowl more times and nine the clog
is in the toilet bowl
unless the cesspools full but you could
tell if the clogs in the bowl because
the tub won't get one of the top of the
shadow will always be clean
if your top of your shower starts to
fill up with water that's at the same
band
wastewater that indicates a full pool or
a clog somewhere else so just keep in
mind locate that out strap and open that
one plug that's closest to the cesspool
of the sewer
well we'll give you a determination of
what's going on and you can easily snake
that with a rue de home depot also sells
a bag that you would put on a garden
hose and you get insert the garden hose
in the house trap and maybe down a foot
and turn it on and the high pressure
hose actually forces those schools in
this end it forces the water out this
and it blows the bag up and seals the
paper at the same time so all your
pressure is going forward toward the
clog
I don't recommend using this in the
house too much because it can go up
event and come down in the flood you out
when you pull this out but it does work
on the main lines if it's not that bad
of a club and you can get this right in
the home depot very cheap to unclog it
and then you can get these repaired fits
all plugs also which you can have a
right back into the hole because you're
probably not going to screw out the old
grass when you're probably the
submission about when I have a and cut
them with a soul get how whatever it
takes to get them out of the cast iron
house trap and doing
but once you trap is clean the pipe is
empty and the pool is empty your
bathroom is going to work as long as
nothing in the ball
and by the way
one more quick thing before I go
treating you cesspool every month with
red X this is your pole and you pull
winds up getting sludge on the bottom
and it gets very very thick and it winds
up being so thick that the water can
drain down into the earth anymore
treating the Senate's poured red X every
month actually works because its
billions and billions of little little
microscopic bacteria and they wake up
and they start eating and eating and
eating and they die off or if you have a
second pool they'll actually go out the
pipe into the second overflow pool and
you start losing them
but if you keep telling the pool with
red X every month and keep the
population hi that sludge will never
build up that high the bottom of the
pool will always be a very minimal and
having that sludge minimal in the pool
lets the water to keep training down
into the earth so keep the red X going
every month and that will keep the pool
empty