"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove > wrote:
>
>>"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
>
>>> You must have a build-up somewhere in your drain system if
>>> problems develop this readily. Have a plumber look at your
>>> lateral pipe. Also, query your neighbors to find if they
>>> also have drainage problems -- once, the city sewage line
>>> that runs down my street was itself clogged. It turned out
>>> some individual was routinely flushing disposable diapers
>>> in large numbers. That pipe is over a foot in diameter
>>> and still it clogged.
>
>>Only one tub clogs. The toilet in that same bathroom clogs. Not the
>>other
>>one. Hmmm...
>
> As I learned, a clogged lateral pipe doesn't necessarily affect
> all drains equally. The drains in the bathroom closest to
> the lateral pipe may back up, but other drains further away
> might appear to drain okay because there is a longer drainpipe
> between them and the lateral and it takes longer for this
> drainpipe to back up.
>
> So if the bathroom that clogs is closest to the lateral, then
> the lateral is suspect. Whereas if the drains with the
> shortest run to the lateral drain okay, then the lateral is
> probably okay.

Aha. Well, our house was remodeled and the clogging toilet is the newer
one.