lastlight
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This house is about 80 yrs old, and probable not up to code I dont think anymore. One of the switches in the bathroom doesn;t work suddenly. When you flick it it doesn't click like the switch below it, but if you play with it will turn on (wethter in off or on position) stopped doing this after it sparked below the surface. To fix this should I just cut the power to the area in the fusebox, then see if it somehow came off? or is this some bigger problem. It is one of those old fuse boxes where you pull it out, rather than just flick a switch.
Seconed. The bathtub downstairs is backflowing sewage suddenly. When I flush the toilet it just fills up, if I plunge it it spurts through the spill valve in the bath tub. ******* disgusting. Is there anything I can do to mend this for now other than bucketing all the water to the upstairs toilet and flushing it.
Is the mainline likely plugged then? there is some construction going on in the neighbourhood (two houses on this block, one I think being built by owner, who might have damaged the sewage, i doubt this as the upstairs toilet still works). Should I snake it, I don't know if this is an older sewage with a drum whatever thing near the drain from the tub. There is a piece of wall with screws in it next to the toilet, if so what would I do???? get an auger, a snake?
Seconed. The bathtub downstairs is backflowing sewage suddenly. When I flush the toilet it just fills up, if I plunge it it spurts through the spill valve in the bath tub. ******* disgusting. Is there anything I can do to mend this for now other than bucketing all the water to the upstairs toilet and flushing it.
Is the mainline likely plugged then? there is some construction going on in the neighbourhood (two houses on this block, one I think being built by owner, who might have damaged the sewage, i doubt this as the upstairs toilet still works). Should I snake it, I don't know if this is an older sewage with a drum whatever thing near the drain from the tub. There is a piece of wall with screws in it next to the toilet, if so what would I do???? get an auger, a snake?