Re: Garbage Disposal Refuse Backing Up Into House

Dave Skipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

> First time poster here and I'm a bit frazzled.  I'm hoping someone out 
> there can give some advice on a remedy for this problem.  I'll do my 
> best to describe it.  My story goes...

> I noticed the carpets were wet in the lowest level of our house.  We 
> have a bathroom and a laundry along with a floor drain in the laundry.  
> There are four carpeted rooms along with a carpeted hallway leading to 
> three of the rooms. 

> I thought my kids had put something in the toilet to overflow but that 
> was not the problem.  Then I had noticed a floor drain in the laundry 
> room had what looked like garbage disposal refuse that spewed out of the 
> drain under enough pressure to blow the plastic cover off. 

> I think there is a blockage somewhere between the kitchen sink and this 
> floor drain.  I had also noticed some refuse that had come up out of the 
> shower stall drain too - but not nearly as much.  I had run the 
> dishwasher twice today and had used the disposal quite often.  Could my 
> line to the sewer be blocked?. 

> I think I need to call someone like Roto-Rooter(sp?) but I think I may 
> be able to work on this problem myself.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

If you have trees on your lot, that would be the most effective solution.

-- 
   Ron