Kids poured tiny styrofoam beads down outside drain and clogged mainline

@into_the_fire Said

Fire.

@alk1975 Said

No, because the drain they put it through has a direct line to the main. It is in the same place that the thing stops up any time it stops up. But it is the line that runs under the basement, just before it catches the laundry/bathroom on it's path and is about a 4inch pipe. The kitchen hits it before that spot, so the kitchen stuff comes back up outside in the outside drain, which is how we know when we have a problem. Nothing stops up in the sink itself. Anyway, when I got back with the acetone all of the water had already gone down, so it has some draining to it. However I put some in the kitchen drain and some outside, waited an hour, filled both kitchen sinks and let them go, and it came up outside and stood. However, I went back in 45 minutes and the water was gone. Today I'm going to time it and see how long it actually takes to drain, but I think for now we are going to wait and see if this problem flushes on through in the next couple of days cause it is not backing up high enough to run under the basement door, which is what usually happens. It's really not a good set up at all.

@Willi Said

i'm guessing city not septic.
septic, is all the syrofoam gonna glog drain field.

these work.
unhook the closest spot to glog.
Snake-It Deluxe Power Drum Auger Free Standing

the hand crank are cheaper.
hardware stores have em.

@blind_chameleon Said

is that all you talk about??

@alk1975 Said

I'm completely broke right now, as in the check for the plumber would bounce. Anyone have any clue how to get styrofoam clogs out. Surely something would dissolve styrofoam, but I don't want to make a bigger mess.

@alk1975 Said

It is a good ways from the closest drain. Hubs has broke TWO of the handcrank snakes in that drain in the past. I kind of figured that it would just stir the styrofoam around and then it would settle right back where it was. Kind of too light to push through or something, IDK.