Yech. Yes, I am thankful it’s only a kitchen sink that mainly saw water and no poop. Luckily I never was one to run food through the disposal, my ex did though years ago even though I told her not to. One day I came home from work and she said the kitchen sink was plugged up. I asked if she was using the disposal again and she said no. I ended up on the roof, using a garden hose to try to flush the line by running the hose down through the vent pipe. I was looking down the vent pipe so I could see if water was filling it up. All of a sudden a ton of apple peels came flying up the vent pipe and shot out all over my face and all over the roof. I found out she had been peeling a bunch of apples to bake pies with and can and had run the peels through the disposal instead of throwing them in the trash. I guess she just thought the disposal made them disappear. Notice I said she is my ex.
Ha!
My wife and I bought our first house in Jan of 2000. It was an older house built around 1900. The kind that the only thing that is square are the nails.
Anyway, my wife had the day off and took a late shower and while in the shower she heard a gurgling sound so she got out and as she was standing in front of the toilet, the water in the toilet just exploded out all over her.
Turns out we had a blockage of some sort in our stand pipe and the city was cleaning the sewer lines and the pressure built up and instead of the pressure relieving up the stand pipe, it came through the next available opening, the toilet.
When my wife called me at work to tell me the toilet blew up, she was one sort of pissed off and I was laughing so hard, which didn’t help anything! She is still pissed off about that 20 years later.
