OK this is a strange request for prayer....

[Pete in MI]

I know God meets our needs and man do we NEED the kitchen sink drain pipe to be cleared...water is backed up into the sink. We don't have much room to work but have tried a couple snakes but they don't go far enough to clear the blockage. We poured some Liquid Plummer in the drain awhile ago...nothing. We got some industrial strength Micro something or other stuff that is like billions of hungry mouths to eat away at the stuff...still the water is not going down. We don't have the funds for a plumber.

It is only the kitchen sink with the problem...everything else is fine (toilet, bathroom sink, tub/shower drain, laundry room drains all work fine. This pipe is under the trailer and runs probably a good 50 feet or so from the kitchen to the floor drain tile going out to the septic tank and septic field. Since all else is working it has to be this one pipe...probably too much grease, oil and food items have been shoved down the sink and into this pipe.

So here is the strange request...need prayer for God to meet this NEED. Its been nearly a month and running dirty/clean dishes back and forth from one end of the house to the other to do dishes and put them away is wearing on us all.

Thanks for the prayers

(I've asked for a wet/dry vac from people locally...thinking maybe if I can run a garden hose down there and suck a little at a time out ... I am running out of ideas...and already ran out of money for a plumber.)

 

[warthog]

Pete-I sent your prize out today-You will have it soon.Said prayers for your drain.I have an idea-If you can get under there and find out where the pipe is;you can just cut it if its plastic;and go both ways till you find out where Mr. clog is.I betcha it is in an elbow somewhere near the sink drain;I had to go thru this more than once.-cut it,find the clog,remove it;throw a piece of plastic pipe and a coupling in there with some glue,yer good to go.Wont cost much to fix if you can do that.Steve!!!

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

n/t

 

[Pete in MI]

actually wish it was a 'house' but it is a trailer or manufactured home = whatever with about 2-3 feet of crawl space underneath.

The way the trailer is built there are 2 beams that run the full lenght of the trailer and in between these are the pipes, then insulation, then plastic sheeting then some kind of black board type material. None of this has been cut into over all these years.

The kitchen sink has 2 drains into one pin that (as you stand at the sink) goes down to the 'trap' then to the right under the counter (about 2 feet) then a bend to the right along the wall about another foot and a half to the down pipe that goes all the way to the back towards the bathroom area where there is a large pipe that this, the washer, toilet, tub and bathroom sink all dump into.

Only thing on that one pipe is the kitchen sink. I ran a snake down the 'down pipe' and brought back about 10 feet of grease caked on the snake...yeecchhhh. We tried plunging it once and brought sand up into the kitchen sink...not a good sign. Where the sand came from I don't know. Figuring there is sand, grease and of course food particles...along with seeds from bird dishes (which may have sprouted and are growing in the pipe)...well ya get the idea.

Anyway even I were to venture to do something like you mention...my back and my knee keeps me from doing that.

Hey some good news...this Sunday Sherry is leading the Praise team for church. The 'regular' Praise team leader is in China and not sure if he will be back in time for church. Sherry will be playing her keyboard (piano), I will be playing the QChord (working hard at getting Give Thanks down). This will be my official first playing of the QChord in any environment for public viewing and singing along. Casey and others will be singing as well as myself. Right now I think of playing the QCHord, reading the sheet music, keeping up with Sherry, and singing as being akin to the person who sits on a unicycle has a stick in his teeth and twirling a plate on the stick and a stick in each hand twirling plates on those sticks.

Guess I'll still leave it up to the Lord to get that drain cleared however He works it out. The water in the sink that was standing there has gone down a little,..very little...so there is hope...wasn't moving at all before.

 

[Mike Chgo area]

n/t

 

[Pete in MI]

Brought sand up into the sink at which time we quit plunging and the second was it forced water, etc. from the sink and not down into the drain pipe under the house but up out of the top of that pipe and into the cabinet area near the sink (where the sink pipe connects to the down drain pipe there is a vent cover over the down pipe...'stuff' came up through the vent an into the cabinet).

 

[Dennis]

Suck that thing out with your wet/dry shop vac. Wrap a wet rag around the vac nozzle to seal it and turn on the vac.
If that don't get it cover the vent pipe and try again.(be prepared for some stink). I have birds and am surrounded by sand
works for me every time. While your at it, try it on your tub drain too. You will be amazed at the stuff that comes up.

 

[TuckyTector(InezKY)]

rubber ball on the nozzle to unstop stuborn drain lines. If your pipes will stand the pressure it will blow the obstruction through. It has worked for me but be careful especially with plastic pipes.

 

[Jim West Pa]

Rid-X ? Or, if the pipes are exposed under the trailer then for very little cost you can get 2 couplers and a piece o' pipe(i'm assuming it's plstic ABS or PVC ?), it is very easy to cut away the portion of pipe where the clog is and splice it back together.

 

[Jim West Pa]

n/t

 

[happy harold]

hand .Take care my friend and may God meet all your needs.