Ha ha water. Good joke. Now stop it. (Page 1 of 2)

Dishwasher leaks. 

Washing machine has a worn down gear.

Kitchen drain has been a problem for a long time.  They keep running a snake down it and saying there's nothing there.  Well run the darn thing further then because "nothing" doesn't stop water, and the only one that doesn't drain is the kitchen, so it's a partial clog somewhere between the sink and where the drain connects with the main stack. 

Everything else but the kitchen sink comes to the main stack elsewhere. 

Oh, and the hose bib on the front of the house started to leak enough to discolor all the brick around it.  So, now there's another water thing. 

And the passenger window on my truck stopped working, so that's at least an anti-water thing. 

All this in the last two days. 

- Zurf

1st world problems! Indoor plumbing can really suck. Dig you a hole in the backyard, turn off the main and haul water from the stream for a while!

LOL - I hate it for ya buddy. Hope you have a plumbing problem free summer!

When all else fails. Call someone that does all that for a living

I used to have two 50 gallon hot water tanks.  I came home one day and found that one of them had vented itself all over the garage floor.  I spent about $5K and had them both replaced with a big tankless system.   It's worth every dime.   Endless hot water, and my gas bill is less than half what it was.

Joke is on you, water!

A move to Mars might be in order; no water, no plumbing problems.

The problem with the kitchen sink is between the main stack and the kitchen sink.  We've had One Trick Pony (a national chain) out.  They give a six month guarantee.  They've had to come back two times during that guarantee period.  The run the same size snake down about the same length.  That's why I call them One Trick Pony.  They only seem to know one thing.  When it doesn't fix the problem, they do it again.  Perhaps improvement through repitition is for drains as well as scale practice. 

I'm going to call the town and see if they do the clean-out from the main sewer or whether I pay for that.  I think it's the next step. 

I haven't tried to fix the hose bib yet.  I will give it a go with the gaskets or seals or whatever they're called.  Mohammed at Home Depot usually steers me right.  I show him the part, he points to what I need.  It's been a good relationship for years.  I don't know if we've exchanged 10 words in the years he's been advising me.  My house is weird for gaskets.  I replaced a perfectly good gasket in a toilet with another perfectly good gasket, and for some reason that worked.  I could not detect one failure or installation error on the first perfectly good gasket. 

I haven't checked the fuses on the truck yet.  Just haven't got around to it.  I'm hoping that's all it is. I don't feel like paying someone to put in a new window motor, but I feel a whole lot more like paying someone to do it than I feel like doing it myself.  There's foam rubber animals that need holes in them to occupy my time.

If your kitchen sink is too far away from your vented main drain, you may have a venting problem. We try to avoid putting excess grease down any drain. Put it in a disposable container and into the garbage. Your leaking hose valve may  be repaired simply by replacing the bib washer. But due to the severe winter we just experienced, your valve may have damage due to freezing. If so , I would replace it with a 10 or 12 inch frost free valve . which will require you to rework[shorten] your supply line. Gotta punt on . the power window. I would think if it were a fuse, more than one window would not work. Bad motor or broken wire.

Bushy, sorry to read about your problems. Here's hoping you will suffer thru all yuour trials and tribulation and come out on top of everything.

Zurf, you own everything in the house main all the wat to where it ties into the city sewer main. Afraid you won't get any help from the city. One thing you could do is ask your plumbing service to "camera" the drain line from the kitchen out to the house main. Also, you should have a "clean-out" on the house main located somewhere outside prior to the city main. Running a camera down the line will tell you if you have a colasped line, broken line, grease log or just a bunch of roots in the system. Rotor Rooter can do this service for you as well as hydro-jet the line. Shouldn't be too expensive. Do you have a garbage disposal connected to the sink drain. If so, they are know to contribute to the build-up of grease in the drain line. If you have a GD be sure to flush it with hot water after using it.

nela

Hi Zurf,  I'm on new anti-depressant drugs so I guess I'll toss in my .02 on this thread for whatever it's worth.

Forty year RV Technician experience (Think big spendy Motorcoach) house on wheels.... truck wheels. and State Building Inspector familiar with all the codes, so I think I know how things should be, but aren't always.

Waste plumbing... yeah you likely have a restriction somewhere, good advice so far so good.
Exterior faucet... new seal kit or replace, it's just a "pipes" thing.
Dishwasher.... you stopped mentioning that, so I assume it is related to the drain issue.
Truck window... if the other one works, power is not the problem. If the offending window goes down and not up or vice-versa, the motor is fine, you have a switching problem.  If it does neither, you have a switching problem OR a motor, or a connector unplugged.  My first suspect is the switch, but you likely have two switches that operate that window, the master at the driver's door, and one in the door panel on the passenger side. What do you suppose the odds are that both would fail at the same time?  Power feeds the driver's side switch panel first and then the harness jumps over to the passenger side switch, and then plugs into the motor harness. The switches just reverse polarity to make the motor run one direction or the other.... so following the power path, I would start at the driver side switch (it gets the most cycles) and check for power and function at that location. Sometimes a shot of WD and a blast of air will clean the contacts and cure all your ills at once.

Good Luck;
Doug

Zurf I hope you get it fixed soon for not too much money,I hate plumming problems more then any other household problem.

We're going to buy a new dishwasher.  It's not related to the drain problem.  Well...it's kind of related to the drain problem, but mostly it's related to the seals on the dishwasher door being old.  The pins in the basket are breaking off.  We've replaced most of the other appliances with a different color.  And so, we're getting a new dishwasher. 

We had One Trick Pony back ... again.  It seems to be draining now.  Our old plumber retired.  There is a local vent on the kitchen sink, but it is a looooong run from the kitchen sink to the main stack.  Food goo settles out before the water drains down the main stack.  We have started using an enzyme that is supposed to KEEP the line clear, but it doesn't GET the line clear.  Supposedly the guy ran 60 feet of snake line, but I don't believe it.  He also used a thin snake.  The old plumber used to use a much larger snake, and also had a much nastier looking head on it.  The One Trick Pony guys just have the one.  Next time, I'll go rent one and tear my hands up again.  It's not worth the hassle to get One Trick Pony.  I'm not going to trust them to do the external clean out.  I will have the plumbers who did most of the basement remodel work back to do anything once the guarantee expires. 

Hose bib - eh.  I'll get to it this weekend probably. 

If it's not a fuse on the truck, I'm not going to try to diagnose the problem.  Experience has taught me that doing so will just lead to larger bills at the mechanic, not to mention good humor among those capable men as I attempt to explain what I had done.  I do appreciate the time and effort put into giving an explanation, though.  Thank you for that.