Sink Gurgles When it Rains
My garden floor tenant called me this morning – since the rains on Sunday there has been frequent gurgling coming from her kitchen sink. I looked at the main drain, and there are a couple of inches of water in there – very clear looking. It also seemed as if some water was coming out…
My garden floor tenant called me this morning – since the rains on Sunday there has been frequent gurgling coming from her kitchen sink. I looked at the main drain, and there are a couple of inches of water in there – very clear looking. It also seemed as if some water was coming out of the sewer pipe. We had a sewer back-up a couple of months ago, and roto rooter snaked it out, so hopefully the line is clear and it’s just the city sewer that’s overloaded from all the rain. Have I diagnosed the issue properly? Is there anything we should do in either the short or long term? The basement has never (knock wood) flooded in the two years we’ve had the house and didn’t have any signs of water problems when we bought it. We’re right at the top of the slope in PS. Thanks for advice!
Our kitchen sink gurgles, but only when there is flooding going on – water coming up into the laundry sink in our cellar (which we can stop with a faucet/block thingy)(and which we virtually stopped by getting rain barrels). During that really, really heavy rain water stopped going down the drain in our kitchen sink, but it eventually drains when the sewer catches up. It doesn’t gurgle at any other time, would that still be a venting problem?
yes eman is correct. my kitchen sink gurgles too, every time neighboring tenant runs their kitchen faucet. We share the stack vent which was accidentally covered over with roof tar many years ago. Check yours for blockage.
no vent in the plumbing, hence the gurgling