We have two toilets in our home, and neither of them will flush... The water will rise as if clogged.?
Question:All of our sinks and showers drain fine. With the toilets though, when flushed, the water will rise, and after several minutes, the water will slowly drain, and will not fill back up. We have plunged and plunged, with no results. We have had a ton of rain lately, about 10 inches in three to four days, and we wondered if that could be part of the problem. We are on a well, and we use a septic tank. The house was built eighteen years ago. About five years ago we had the septic tank emptied, but we were told that it wasn't even a one-fourths full, so that leads us to believe that it is not the septic tank being full. We are out in the country, and do not have many plumbers around here, and the ones we can find are extremely expensive, so we wanted to do everything we can ourselves and save the plumbers for a last resort. Any ideas anyone? Please help if you have any answers! Thank you all.
Answers:
full drain field.. once it dries up, it will work ok again. you can have your septic pumped. this will help.
You should get the septic tank checked anyway. When it rains a lot they tend to fill with water and back up into the yard...Had it happen to me..
Sounds like you have a blockage on the way to the septic tank or the tank is full of water. You'll need to raise some covers and look and rod it through if needed.
Get the septic emptied immediately. It should be done every 2 years or so. The water from the sinks and showers may be staying in the pipes and then slowly draining into the septic. With all that rain, the ground is saturated and the septic can't handle the load. Good luck---
If you have no other backups, sounds as though the common drain line for the toilets to the septic is clogged. Run a "snake" down each toilet. These can be purchased at most home improvement stores relatively cheap (compared to a house call by a plumber)
i believe that you have an obstruction in the drain line which will require a roto rooter type clean out. get the contractor to go in through the VTR at the point at the front of the house and run all the way to the sewer connect, then you should have a clean drain and no more problems. You might also want to "feed the septic system with some rid-X as well.
That's one of the joys of being on septic! Five years is quite a long time in terms of a home with 2 bathrooms, so it could be that the septic needs to be serviced. Fast to fill toilet tank sounds like the well is working fine, so I doubt that has a thing to do with it. As long as your water pressure is still good and the tank fills quickly, I think it's the septic only.
I grew up with septic and a well, and as an adult have lived with septic/well and septic/ city water. We have 2.5 baths and when it's slow like that, you need to schedule an appointment with the septic service company.
Best of luck to you.
your system is inundated(flooded) with excess water from the recent rain, and the leach field or dry wells cannot take the warer fast enough to drain well. you can pump out your septic tank and hopefully the time it takes to refill will give your drain field time to recover there are also other possible problems such as partially clogged sewerline or your drain field could be plugged with solids due to a poorly working septic. i'm questioning the septic tank only being 1/4 full thetank will be full to the point of the drainfield outlet all the time when properly working if it has not been recently pumped if the tank is not filling to the outlet i would suspect aleaking tank but that you would have probably noticed by now your problem will probabl dissipate as the weather turns dry.
You need to have your tank pumped! We do it every year or once every 18 months. If that does not fix your problem, you might be in for a really expensive septic system repair, which will require a backhoe to dig up a broken line. The extra rain could have caused something underground to break. They used to make all those pipes out of cast iron, which will corrode, and they will need to be replaced by PVC. This repair will cost thousands of dollars.
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