Dan3989
New Member
Hey all, first post here and hopefully you guys and gals can help me out a little bit. We moved in to a older 1960s about a year ago and up until last month never had any issues with our plumbing. We started with a double bowl sink with a garbage disposal. The garbage disposal was old and stop working due to electrical problems so I omitted it. We are borderline OCD with our food and dishes after meals and have always wiped food into the garbage can, then sprayed with water, then into the dishwasher. We knew the plumbing was old and eventually would have problems. First was water backing up into sink when running water and while running the dish washer. Had a local plumber come and snaked the kitchen drain then into the basement to snake the main drain from the kitchen and seemed to work for a while. Then the backups started happening again. This time they said the existing pipes in the basement coming from the sink were corroded and was clogging it up. They replaced the metal? pipes from the basement ceiling down to the floor with PVC and completely replaced our pipes under the sink. They also installed a Sure-vent under our sink and cleaned the dish washer hose. That was about 2 months ago. Just recently we started all over again with the water backing up into both sides of the sink while running water and running the dishwasher as well as standing water in the dishwasher. In the pictures that I post you can see that there is no high loop. Just a Sure-vent system. I work in the countertop installation industry so I look at and under sinks every day. Every above counter air gap system has the dishwasher hose hooked up to it. Ours does not. Also, if I dont see an air gap I usually see a high loop system. Is the dishwasher hose supposed to be hooked up to the sure-vent somehow? I'm at a loss and I'm tired of paying a plumber to come out every couple of months to fix something. I disassembled the p-trap and poured almost 2 gallons of cold water down the main pipe and it went down without backing up. I can only assume this means that the main pipe isn't clogged that it something to do with something going on in the sink cab. If anyone can offer some advice or insight or anything for that matter it would be very much appreciated. If it's a relatively easy fix I feel confident enough to do it myself. Thanks everyone.
Dan
Dan