u/Spiritual-Display781

Clog? Full tank?

So I start out on the plumber page a few weeks ago and I thought the issue was fixed but now I’m thinking it may be something to do with the septic tank. We started having issues with one sink in our bathroom, we have a double vanity and the sink we don’t use and haven’t ever used started gurgling when we would flush the toilet and the toilet water would rise ( it’s the sink on the right side, farthest away from the toilet and closest to the septic tank which is I would say maybe 12 feet outside from the sink possibly a little further ). The plumbers recommended changing the studor vent and I thought it was fixed bc everything was flowing as normal, no gurgling and no water rising in the toilet. I forgot to run water in that sink so there wasn’t any water in the p trap and I started smelling something and then remembered. After I ran water in that sink the same thing started happening again 🤦🏻‍♀️ everything flows fine if we take the studor vent off. We have snaked the pipes more times than I can count besides the toilet bc I realllly didn’t want to pull the toilet but I did yesterday and I also ran the water hose in the bathroom window and ran water in every pipe a few weeks ago and have even poured gallons in the toilet and nothing backs up. Me and my fiancé both took turns snaking it from inside the house and the cleanout pipe outside and from the toilet drain you can see the snake go down the cleanout pipe to the septic tank pipe, it’s just a 25 ft manual snake with a drill attachment thingy. We also snaked to the septic tank and found nothing at all. We had the tank pumped a little over two years ago but there is standing water in the cleanout pipe. The water is several inches below where our bathroom drains into that pipe and we haven’t had any back ups. Some things I’ve read say it’s okay for water to stand in that pipe as long as it flows and then I’ve read that water should never be in that pipe, I don’t know how it flows down the cleanout pipe with the studor vent on bc taking the cap off to watch the water draining would pretty much be the same thing as taking the studor off right?? That pipe is only to our bathroom, our bathroom was added 12ish years ago and they just ran the pipe from our bathroom straight to the tank. When we had it pumped, the man wanted to know what all came out of that pipe and it’s strictly our bathroom. I think that is everything! Any advice or ideas on what it could be that we could possibly fix or try before we call our septic guy back out??

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u/Spiritual-Display781 — 3 days ago

Possible clog?

So for the last week we’ve been having issues with the sink on the right(we don’t even use the sink on the right, we only use the sink on the left and have since we bought the house). When the toilet is flushed, water gurgles/backs up into the sink. It doesn’t happen every time the toilet is flushed so I don’t know if it’s a clog or not since it has only happened a handful of times in a week. The toilet flushes fine and doesn’t act like it’s clogged. The left sink and the shower both drain fine also, neither drain slow. Our other bathroom does fine but it has separate plumbing to the septic tank, the bathroom pictured was added on 12 years ago and we’ve owned the house going on 4 and a half years and never had an issue until now. It’s a single story house, no basement. Nothing is wrong with the sink on the right side we just don’t use it besides when I clean the counter and sinks. Any ideas on where to start looking or what to try and do??

u/Spiritual-Display781 — 28 days ago