I capped the cleanout, poured a bucket of water down every drain to test, and breathed for the first time in three hours.
I rented a drain auger (snake) from the hardware store—a 100-foot heavy-duty one with a corkscrew tip. A hand-crank snake is fine for a sink, but for a 4-inch sewer line? You need power. I fed the cable into the cleanout, cranked the handle, and felt it slither 30 feet until… thunk . The cable stopped dead. how to clear a clogged sewer line
The jetter had blasted through a plug of wet wipes and congealed grease the size of a raccoon. I capped the cleanout, poured a bucket of
The first sign was a gurgle. Not from one toilet, but all of them. When I flushed the upstairs bathroom, the downstairs shower hissed back like a warning. Then came the smell—sulfur and decay drifting up from the basement drain. You need power
I had a clogged main sewer line. And I had three choices: call a plumber for $500, ignore it until sewage backed up into the tub, or try to fix it myself.
I pushed harder. Nothing. The snake was hitting a wall of solid muck.