Valkyre

The Drain Now Drains....

When I last left off with our little plumbing adventure, Mike was headed back to Home Depot, with what he thought was a jammed pipe snake. But, when he got to the store, he was grabbing the tool out of trunk by a sleeve that was around it, when he heard a kachunk. The tool was "unjammed". Except, it wasn't really jammed to start with. That sleeve was a lock to lock the snake in place. Poor Mike! At least he discovered this before he went into the store. It would have even been more humiliating to have some store employee point out your mistake to you and then laugh at you behind your back. (And then all his buddies about it during lunch break!) Anyway, he brings it back home and starts using it again. While he is doing this, I fill the sinks to see if and when they will drain when he finally gets to the obstruction. Except, he never does. 25 feet of pipe snake play out and the drain is still clogged. Rats! Mike, is a little upset now. They have a more heavy duty one there, it has 50 feet of snake. But, in order to use it, he will have to crawl under the house and remove the "clean out" plug on the sewer pipe. The more heavy duty unit will not go around the pipe bends. A clean out plug that has never been removed since the house was built. (1944) It does not budge. He hits it with WD-40. Still doesn't budge. He takes the now, not needed rented snake back to Home Depot. I look in the sinks and they are still half full of water. My daughters come into the kitchen and we start chatting about something when we hear a rather loud SLURP! We run to the sink and see that the water has suddenly drained. I stare at the now empty sink and turn the taps on full. The sinks are draining fine. No back-up whatsoever. I grab my cell phone and call Mike, who is still in line at the Depot. "You are never going to believe this......" He can hear the water in the background going full force. The only thing he can figure is that all that wiggling of the pipes while they were being snaked may have actually dislodged the obstruction and it flowed out to the main sewer line. We will never know....