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Originally Posted by glatt
Does the toilet flush into the kitchen sink too?
Sounds like there might be roots growing into the sewer pipe outside. A good plumber will be able to identify the problem. It may require a visit from roto-rooter.
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I thought of this too, and it was the source of the trouble for my house when I had some sewage backup. Fucking gross beyond words, not to mention seriously unsanitary. The answer was to bring in one of those BFG commercial rooters the size of a generator with mileage markers on the snake that went up to triple digits. He galumphed that monster down my basement stairs and setup at my main cleanout, just inches from the floor drain in the basement on the main waste stack. He fired it up and fed the snake down the pipe. rrrrRRRRRrrrrrrRRRRRrrrrrRRRRR... he kept this up for a while, frequently withdrawing the snake for inspection/etc. He brought it up and there was some foul witches' hair in a giant gross mass. Not hair, *roots*. Very fine, very many, growing through the concrete pipe laid down at construction time (70 plus years ago). He was waaaay waaaaaaaay past where my longest snake could ever have reached, and his cutting head was sized for the six inch pipe.
There was a happy ending (not that kind) and I haven't had any sewer backup problems since--zero.
UT mentioned a greywater holding tank, that sounds like he's on a septic system, something I know less about since my main experience is on city sewers. But he absolutely has, at a minimum, a problem with his sewer/septic line drains. This, in my opinion, is the responsibility of the property owner to fix.