Listen carefully for water backing up and a sudden whoosh when the weight of the water forces the clog into and down the drain.
How to snake to the roof vent from toilet.
Not all the pipes in your plumbing system run down to the sewers.
When the vent pipe is clogged it shows up within your home in a variety of ways from ghost flushing from your toilet to a sink that won t drain properly.
All of the vents located in your house connect to it with the use of several.
Feed the end of a garden hose down the vent pipe and have someone on the ground turn on the water.
The toilet is vented by the main roof stack.
In most cases the vent pipe exits through the roof.
For those items you can t remove from above run the plumber s snake down the vent pipe.
Bird or rodent.
If the air from the drain or toilet smells like sewage this can also be a sign that the vent pipe is blocked.
The toilet s vent continues up the wall and in many case this vent can tee into the home s existing venting system or the vent can terminate through the roof on its own.
If you didn t already know the main roof stack is the center of your home s venting system.
A vacuum is being created that is pulling things in the wrong direction.
For most households the toilet is one of the most important fixtures in the home.
Each plumbing fixture sink tub toilet and so on connects via a vent pipe to the main vent stack that exits the roof.
The odor of sewage.
How to unclog a toilet vent pipe.
When a clog forms in the vent stack it blocks the free flow of air.
The vent system those plumbing pipes that stick out of your roof may be clogged instead.
Toilet without a vent through a roof stack.
How to unblock vents on the roof.