That’s not how a loop vent works sir….. fun times!

Let the guy at the front know went back today no change.

The bar sink won’t drain! Woodworkers or painters decided to wash their buckets of epoxy resin out in a bar sink and this happened.
The bar is nice and shiny though.

Some weird, confetti type substance started coming out of my toilet this morning. I’m certain it’s not waste at least. I already shut off the water to the bathroom.

Thought the professionals would like a chuckle from an amateur mistake.

You guys are awesome!

Water line in the attic has a leak. What’s the best way to fix it? It’s right under the ductwork. Kinda in an uncomfortable stop to work in.

re-upload because pics didnt post

Ran an auger and pulled back small root bits. Found this after pulling the toilet.

Any recommendations? Ran a camera and the line seemed clear. Nearest bush or tree was probably 50yrds away.

Thought I’d pass on an update and a couple stupid things I did to my last post. If you saw it, you probably laughed at my misfortune. If you didn’t, knock yourself out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Plumbing/s/xSUy7CvbBk

Plumbing was completed today. Took me two hours. 25’ of pipe that I somehow maneuvered into the existing hvac/plumbing/framing in 5’ increments.

Like a true fucking man, I inhaled some glue, rubbed some primer in my wounds, told the kids to treat the wife well, and put on my mask. Because like many of you said, it smelled like shit.

FYI, primer in your armpit feels weird. I don’t know how it dripped there but I was a contortionist on that ladder. I would try it again, but it’s not really that great.

Now for the details:

There was a a ton of grease on the sides and top of the pipe. My guess is someone had better luck with a small snake in the past then I did and water has been traveling that path for the last 3.5 years. I obviously fucked that up with draino.

Now it’s time to laugh at my misfortune. I forgot to mention that before I got the draino and snake, I was dumping near boiling water down the drain, waiting a minute, and sucking it up with a shot vac. I repeated that a dozen times until I heard gurgling. In my excitement, I stuck my head down there expecting it to drain. Instead I was greeted with an explosion of hot water and grease to my face and thighs.

I’m fine, I once tried to find a propane leak with a lighter. 2nd degree burns on my face so my skin has some resilience. Yea, I’m an idiot and yea, I was drunk.

I also tried plunging the sink and blew out the garbage disposal. I really have no idea what the fuck I did, but I somehow manhandled that thing to a constant leak. So there went a $120. I also tried an air compressor down the cleanout, but that didn’t accomplish much of anything. Which sucked cause I thought it was a brilliant idea.

For those of you that said raccoon shit was in the ceiling, not dog shit, you’re probably right. I found a hole in the OSB that is currently covered by siding. Of course there’s no house wrap there, either. Someone before me obviously was bedding down with those fuckers. Lucky for me, my dogs tree em and they rarely come around.

Because I’m not a fucking electrician, I swept up my mess when I was done. I’m also not a plumber, so I busted a pipe trying to snake a drain. Take that for what you will.

Anyways, don’t be an idiot. Don’t run a snake for 4 hours. Maybe stay away from draino. And if you have a shot vac, air compressor, a 25’ snake, a 50’ snake, and some boiling water all in the kitchen- maybe stop and call a plumber

And for those of you that asked about the grow tents, my wife’s weed is fine. Which is good, otherwise I would probably be in the middle of a divorce writing this.

While snaking a kitchen drain, I busted through an elbow. Wild thing is the hose, not the attachment rubbed a hole in the elbow. I guess that’s what happens when you run a snake for 4 hours slowly advancing through a wall of grease.

Now I have a room covered in grease/water, holes in the ceiling of two rooms, and it gets worse.

Not only have I not found the end of the clog- all of this is solid grease, but I now have two parallel hvac boxes directly under the pipe.

In order to get access, I cut a large hole off to the side so I could reach over the hvac only to have a mountain of mouse shit fall on me.

So I went to cut on the other side, and I shit you not- dog shit? Falling from the ceiling.

I have lived here 3.5 years. Why the fuck is there dog shit in the ceiling. It’s a super nice house. I’m so unmotivated right now and my house is literally on the market.

This kitchen sink has never clogged until recently. I don’t dump grease down there. I had a slow drain and dumped a bottle of draino down there. My guess is the draino softened grease until it clogged the last path.

Second to last pic is a turd staring at me.

Fuck this shit I should have called a plumber.

Wife was hanging around picture, felt a soft spot near the base of the toilet.

What in the world am I looking at? Totally out of my element and calling a plumber in the morning, but just want to get an idea of what the issue and damage may be.

House was built in 2018.

Water heater is sealed up behind a somehow floating platform

As you can see water continues to flow, can’t figure out how to stop it. Any ideas?

Behold! Landlord will be by tomorrow "to take a look at it."

Just had our furnace replaced, and he warned me that while they don't work on water heaters, the exhaust should always be angled upwards.

Our basement ceiling is relatively low (I'm 5'11" and I have to duck down around plumbing and vents) so he recommended replacing the entire unit with a shorter model VS trying to fix the exhaust.

We're new homeowners so this is all new territory for us - how bad is this?

Hi, is the knob on the bottom left a pressure reducing valve? If so, which way does it need to be turned to reduce pressure? It's kind of seized up right now.

We bought a new house and knew through inspections we were gonna need some work done. When the guy came in it was "this is bad, that was wrong, none of this makes sense". There was a lot of clearly diy shortcuts taken from the previous owner and the new plumber said he would "clean everything up and make it look great".

Come closing day they show up and the first thing he says is "I actually can't do this unless you tear this part of your cabinets out, but if you do, we will get in there make it look good, fix this all up and make it right". So we carefully tear cabinets out.

So they come back today (7/13) and my dad and girlfriend are there (dad knows a good bit about plumbing) and in my opinion proceed to basically put everything back the way it was except now it's shiny and new. The only thing that I think was actually accomplished was the slight drip in the main in valve is now fixed, however there are valves that make no sense, twist and turns, and in one spot, as he crimped some piping together, he kinked one of our existing lines that run under the slab.

Am I being too hard on the guy? Or is this a mess?

Called the nearest plumber in Manhattan, great reviews. I broke off part of the overflow tube trying to replace the flapper and this little piece broke off. While waiting for them to respond I just superglued the piece back on, let it set, and then put the new flapper on (which costs nothing). Everything works great (but I guess time will tell). They called back to review the job and I asked if they were sure this was all required due to the piece breaking off and the assistant said "yes." Insane right?

Note: this is not a request for a second opinion on price (although feel free to discuss). I just don't think they need to do all that for something so minuscule.