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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)
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pretty quiet week this week if you ignore whatever the hell is going on with our bathroom toilet, which has a diagnostic issue we can't troubleshoot and which has flooded once this week. calling maintenance once again to see if we can figure this out so i don't have to plunge every third time we flush (ironically it'd be way easier if we just had to plunge every time--but it's the times we don't that make this extremely bizarre)

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[โ€“] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry to hear about you sanitary sewer issues. They are the worst. Never had much issues myself until I moved in with my wife. Before then I lived in mostly newer and pretty well maintained apartment buildings.

Since then it is always something. Every few years. Squirrel dropping a walnut in our stack. Roots in house main line. Long term buildup in various lines that need to be cleared. One bathroom toilet just not flushing that well... I think by design. Now a stinky sink drain.

I sometimes wonder if all this low flow stuff makes things worse.

[โ€“] apis@beehaw.org 3 points 8 months ago

Similar suspicions on the low flow stuff. Feels like the plumbing at mine is developing various complaints, which are a little weird to troubleshoot, but maybe just that my energy is dire lately, so things feel harder than they would ordinarily.

Besides that, it seems some fittings have been redesigned to be more complex than they need to be.