My toilet is backing up into my tub, my washer wont drain, any help?

Question

We just put a new water heater in my home cause ours went out. Now my toilet is backing up into my tub, Do you know why this is happening. please help?

my washing machine is not draining either. I have city water and I dont have a septic tank. what will disolve a tree root if that is what it is. That wont harm anything

Answer 1

you need the main drain line in your home rodded by a professional service such as Rotorooter.

Answer 2

The bathroom drain is plugged. Something went down the commode that shouldn't have. Unless the line passes near the outside wall of the house, odds are, it is not a tree root. They tend to affect your main line and the whole house is blocked.

It may be a severe bend, rough joint or a foreign object. The solution is to cut it out with a mechanical drain cleaner. This will allow you get some idea of what is actually causing the stoppage.  

Answer 3

There is not really anything to help for any length of time. You can use muratic acid or and get out the rooter router guy  

Answer 4

A good plumber will hellp you resolve the issue!

Answer 5

If you are on a city sewer system....you might have a clogged drain.  Call the city and they might be able to come out with a plumber's snake and try to work out any clog that might be obstructing the line.  Our village will do this for free and will clean the line from the road to the house.  Within the house, it is up to us.  We can always tell when our line is clogged to the road when our sinks and toilets start bubbling everytime we run water.  And, yes....it will bubble up into the tub.  I am not sure if you are in a private home or an apartment, but there should be a sewer line located outside your home.  If you check the trap, you will probably see water bubbling out since it has no where to go.  That alone is a good indication that the line to the roadway sewer line is blocked.

Answer 6

I've had this happen before and it was a partial block on that end of the house. Only the large water consumption users (washer/tub etc) that 'pummel' water into the drains caused backup. I tried finding the plug and doing it myself and ended up ripping out half of my basement ceiling and re-doing the pipes and venting. Looking back on the whole fiasco, I wish I had bit the bullet and brought in roto rooter type company to put a camera in my line to tell me exactly what was going on. They would find the problem and I could have done a 'surgical strike' instead of remodelling half my bsmnt !!!! One thing to test the main line going outside would be to stick a garden hose in your floor drain and turn it on full blast and give it a few minutes to see if the water backs up. If you think about it, if it was the main line then your floor drains would be backing up unless you have an anti backflow protector in the floor drain.

Answer 7

Your toilet is located further back than your tub drain and your pipes

outside is blocked so when you flush it is finding a nearest outlet which is your bath tub. Try using a coiled wire used to push debris and human hairs in your bathtub drain. Push and twist it as far as you can down the sewerage line aided with poured boiling water. Muriatic is extremely corrosive and it can be abrasive to your bath tub enamel. If you suspect roots, then you have to dig outside to find out otherwise the problem will regularly occur.

Answer 8

Nothing to do with the water heater.

If the main sewer line out of the house is plugged then every fixture in the house would be plugged.

You need the zero in on exactly what fixtures have plugged drains, and if you can go underneath the fixtures (ie a basement) you can track down which drain line in the house is plugged. You may also see a cleanout cap nearby that either you or a plummer can run a snake down to clear the blockage. Be careful removing the cap because water will probably come out.