This is definitely a situation for a "snake"--the long metal thingy. The chemical stuff won't work on it, especially because it MIGHT be tree roots messing up the pipes, in which case you may have a bigger problem. If you don't have a snake, find a neighbor who does, and while you're asking around, ask them if they have a similar problem and how they handle it. Sometimes these problems are related to "landscape" issues--trees, the lay of the land, the age of the sewage system in the neighborhood--that local knowledge can help with. Failing borrowing or buying a snake, call a plumber.
(Which you may want to do anyway as, believe me, what's down there may be reaally revolting; I have a light trigger on my retch-reflex so my partner has to do this stuff. He, howeve, faints at the sight of blood and/or needles, which don't faze me, so it kind of evens out.) |
