Lately one of my toilets has started to burp...(like its saying...ummmm good) when the other commodes are flushed or water is run from somewhere else in the house. Its always the same one but I have a shower upstream of it and I don't have any problems with it draining. The toilet is also slow to flush(most of the time) and sometimes won't flush at all. Does this sound like septic problems or just a problem with that one toilet?

 

Toilet, if all else is draining well.

 

Could be a roof vent clogged.

 

I didn't think of that one. I'll check it out.

 

you can run a garden hose down the roof vent, turn water on and use it like a snake. i did that once to remove debris and it worked.

 

^^^Works great^^^ Done it a few times

 

Well, I had woodpeckers FILL two 2" vent lines with acorns. Had to cut them off under the house and in the attic and extract the debris with a shop vac and fish tape. Now the vents have hardware cloth screens and metal pungy sticks sticking up to poke the little dudes.

 

Yup. Check the vents. You can't move water in a pipe without moving air.

 

Plungers are your friend.

 

Siphoning hoses are not your friend!

 

So I seem tp be having the same problem. I need to turn on the water hose and just pucsh it dowm the vent tube in the roof. Where does the water go? Thanks

 

Hopefully, it will break up any obstruction and cause it to go down the drain. Otherwise, it is coming back at you thru the vent pipe.

 

So if no obstruction it will just drain down right?

 

Could be a problem in that particular stool.

Is it slow flushing solids and liquids? If it's flushing, but real slow, it could be someone dropped something into the stool. Could be a plastic container of anything.

Here's a easy, simple solution to check if something is caught in the stool and can't get past the bend. Turn the water off at the shutoff at the stool. Flush the stool to drain the tank. Bail as much water out of the stool as possible with a plastic container like those round butter containers butter comes in. Then insert a 2" shop vac hose into the stool and wrap with a rag to keep air from leaking in around to the vac hose. Turn it on. It will suck up just about anything that won't make the turn in the stool, and quickly!!

 

That's not experience speaking...is it?