Toilet Flushing Issues
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:30 am
Since I have lived in this mobile home(2yrs) there has been an issue with the toilet plumbing. Its a 1985 Skyline. I put in a new toilet when I moved in.
If you flush the toilet, 90% of the time it will fill up, and not go down. This is even if no toilet paper is in the bowl. Even if its just fluids. It will slowly trickle down.
Sometimes, it will fill up more than normal. I will hear a bubbling sound in the walls, and beneath the floor. And next thing you know, the water will just, Swoosh!, go down really fast.
I checked the upper vents, cleaned them, there was bird nesting material in there, cleaned all the ones in the roof with a long metal rod, while running water down them. Then followed with continually running water down them. They did not fill up with water, water kept going.
Though maybe it needs a higher flow of water to cause it to back up into the vent.
Anyway. I'm sure that its all related. I still need to get under there and check the angle of the piping that goes from the toilet. Never did that. I do remember seeing some metal scraping on both sides of the pipe, as though they were connected to support the pipe. But to be honest, I was under there for a different reason, and never really looked at it, so I will do that tomorrow..
Any thoughts???
Thanks..
If you flush the toilet, 90% of the time it will fill up, and not go down. This is even if no toilet paper is in the bowl. Even if its just fluids. It will slowly trickle down.
Sometimes, it will fill up more than normal. I will hear a bubbling sound in the walls, and beneath the floor. And next thing you know, the water will just, Swoosh!, go down really fast.
I checked the upper vents, cleaned them, there was bird nesting material in there, cleaned all the ones in the roof with a long metal rod, while running water down them. Then followed with continually running water down them. They did not fill up with water, water kept going.
Though maybe it needs a higher flow of water to cause it to back up into the vent.
Anyway. I'm sure that its all related. I still need to get under there and check the angle of the piping that goes from the toilet. Never did that. I do remember seeing some metal scraping on both sides of the pipe, as though they were connected to support the pipe. But to be honest, I was under there for a different reason, and never really looked at it, so I will do that tomorrow..
Any thoughts???
Thanks..