Yes Dale, The sink empties into the laundry room floor drain.
And, yes, the plumber put the snake through the laundry room fllor drain! And, we've tried what you suggested, letting a little water run from the taps in the sink, since it drains into the floor drain, and it just sits there and won't drain out. Claudia ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:02 PM Subject: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [BlindHandyMan] Very Upset Here! So Claudia, the washer drains into the sink and the laundry room drain is in the laundry room floor? Did the snake man run down the laundry room drain or the sink drain? Now here is another thing you might try, tip a little water down the laundry room drain to see if it runs away. It may run away slowly. You should be able to do this by running water in the sink slowly for a minute or two and see if this comes up the floor drain, speed it up if it does not and just discover if and how much water the blocked drain can carry. If so you might try some chemical drain cleaner, leave it there half an hour then wash it through but again slowly to begin, you don't want it coming back up through the drain. If you run a drain hose into a floor drain, the furnace room or any other drain you will need to make sure that there is a high point about the height of the washing machine, 36 inches. Otherwise, the washer will drain by syphon action while you are trying to wash and before the pump comes on to drain the machine.Just bear that in mind. Really you need to know the lay-out of the drains, for now I am assuming the sink then to the floor drain and from there probably to the floor drain in the furnace room. If the furnace room though is up stream of the laundry room then dumping water down the furnace room drain will just fill it up and it will back up.If mopping water into the sink didn't carry it away then how did you get rid of it? the drain in the floor may well be damaged but I think you would notice that the floor had subsided. I am thinking a shoe or kids ball or something has gone down the sink or the laundry room drain. You may still need to tear up the floor to get to it but there may be alternatives less drastic yet available. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 9:17 PM Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [BlindHandyMan] Very Upset Here! Yes Dale, It is washer water. Yesterday, we tried to wash, and all the water came up, so we were mopping it up, ringing the mop out with a mop bucket and emptying the water back into the sinks that the washing machine drains into. Of course, that water that had already been mopped up off the floor kept coming back up, through the laundry room drain. Claudia ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale Leavens To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 5:26 PM Subject: [Bulk] Re: [BlindHandyMan] Very Upset Here! Hi Claudia, Are you saying that when you pump water into the laundry sink it doesn't go down? Does it eventually go down? Is the drain below the sink where you are dumping washer water? We'll start there. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 1:46 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Very Upset Here! Hello, I am a new poster, and I have the following problem and sure could use any ideas, on the subject! Thanks. However, we have a major problem on our hands! We've been having difficulty, when washing clothes lately. When we wash, there is a drain underneath the basins, where the hose from the washing machine empties into! That has been backing up, as of late. So, we called a friend who is a plumber, for one of our neighboring cities, and he came out to try to solve our problem! He ran a machine through the main water line, of course, getting out grass and roots, as there are trees, as part of our property! That line was now clean, and water traveled through that, without any problems. However, when he went to put the machine through the drain right underneath the wash basins, he couldn't get it past eight feet; something is stuck there, and he couldn't get it to go any further! His thought was that we might have to break up the floor, to see why that drain is stuck and possibly replace pipe! I don't know much about plumbing, but this doesn't seem to be sewer water or anything like that; I think the water from our kitchen sinks and bathrooms drains into the main water line, so I'm thinking that that isn't the problem! If any of you know of a handyman list to send this to, please let me know! Thanks. Claudia Join either of my groups; the first is for visually-impaired women, while the other is for people wishing to discuss homemaking issues. 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