drain issues

[scot]

Ok so we have been having some drain issues. We have ha plumbers come out 3 times snake the main drain. But it continues to happen. So here's what I have noticed.

When we flush the basement toilet it does flush correctly it fills with water and slowly drains down.

Then today I noticed that there was water dripping out of the pipe in the side wall of the sub pump basket. Shortly after the toilet was flushed.

Also you can smell that something isn't right...

I attached a picture. You can see the water dripping from the white pipe.

I'm no plumber I have no idea what's going on and where that water is coming from. And where that pipe is going to.

 

[CT18]

i hope your sanitary drain from that bathroom group does not discharge into a sump basket. If so i would discontinue immediately if not sooner. That is beyond a big no no.

 

[frodo]

you need to get a camera in your pipes, find out where they are going, what is hooked up to what

 

[phishfood]

Is that a sump pit and pump for underdrains in your basement, or is it an ejector pit that your basement bathroom drains into and is then pumped up to the sewer?

 

[frodo]

one reason it stanks, IF its an ejector pit. it should have a vent to outdoors.

if no vent you get STANK

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[CT18]

Plus it needs a sealed lid which it does not have. That is a regular sump basket with a sump pump in it. It is not designed for poop.

 

[scot]

I don't know what an ejector pit is. From my under standing it is just a sub pump from whatever outside there is nothing plumbed into it.

 

[scot]

And water does not drip through that pipe every time I flush... I really have only seen it happen once so it could have been a coincidence.

 

[CT18]

You could add dye to your toilet bowl and flush it. I thought you were saying that water from your toilet in basement was going into your sump pit.

 

[scot]

Well I noticed last night while looking into it. That when ever I run water it drips out of that pipe. I just have no clue where that pipe goes. I always guessed it was some sort of over flow thing or something but i have no clue really.

 

[frodo]

do you have a basement? what is in your basement?

hvac? washer? Water heater? sink ? humidifier ?

as others have suggested. get some food color

pour a bottle of a different color into each fixture 1 at a time,

look in your pit for color, if you poured red in your sink and you see red BINGO

yellow in the terlet.