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drain problem

18 years ago

I have never had this problem before, but in the last week or so when I run my dishwasher or washing machine water will back up in my kitchen sink and has even backed up in the bath tub, also it has sucked the water out of my toilets.

What the heck is going on?

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coolvt
18 years ago
Sounds like some kind of a blockage. The problem should be downstream of the fixtures that you've mentioned.
zl700
18 years ago
Sucked the water out of toilets?

Sounds like lack of or plugged vents possibly in combo with blogged lines
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