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[Gary101386]

i like the idea of partial payment and a note stating.

DOCUMENT THE HELL OUT OF EVERYTHING! My last place i rented was BS all the way down to paying rent and not getting credit for it. Thankfully i paid with check and could prove it. After that i made them give me a recipt every month for payment.

Heres a tip, i myself can type faster than i can write, plus its much more ledigable. While on the phone with them type out everything, add times and dates and names, and PRINT.

 

[Tiollib]

http://www.ag.idaho.gov/publications/consumer/LandlordTenant.pdf link to tenants and landlords rights in Idaho. Go to page 11 and it explains what needs to be done. Pretty much if you told them in person they have three days to get someone there to fix it or you can sue them to comply.

 

[kevinsranger]

i like the idea of partial payment and a note stating.

DOCUMENT THE HELL OUT OF EVERYTHING! My last place i rented was BS all the way down to paying rent and not getting credit for it. Thankfully i paid with check and could prove it. After that i made them give me a recipt every month for payment.

Heres a tip, i myself can type faster than i can write, plus its much more ledigable. While on the phone with them type out everything, add times and dates and names, and PRINT.

that happend where i live now, people were paying their rent at the office, and not requesting a receipt, paying cash of course, and the lady was pocketing the money because of a pill addiction and when the owners questioned why half the place wasnt paying rent she took off, alot of people went thru hell proving they paid their rent. i ALWAYS get receipts, but i pay check, but still i want the persons signature on a piece of paper saying check received lol

 

[Defective]

If the place is that old, it probably has cast iron or clay pipes which over time rust and corrode and collapse. This is happening at my parents house. Half of the upstairs fixtures waste comes up through the floor drains, the other half doesn't. I had to install a bypass waste line for those fixtures that travels through the ceiling and hits another main that's before the failure. A sump bucket had to be installed for the clothes washer downstairs.

The other thing it could be is a stopped up VTR (vent thru roof). Leaves and dirt(turning to mud) get in there and can block them up fairly easily. Water leaving the house creates a suction that needs to be balanced with an opening upstream. Maybe ask you upstairs neighbor if they have any sinks that "gurgle".

Do you get sewage waste also? Into the bathtub? Man that's nasty, my landload would be getting his checks dip in the sh!t if he flat out refused any help.

Make sure you never leave you tub drain closed! Next opening is likely the toilet, and it doesn't take long to overflow.

 

[swynx]

Nah never sewer. Just dirty water. I've informed her she has 10 days to fix it or I'm refusing to pay rent and I'm taking legal action.

 

[RatDog8o8]

Take a plunger to the shower drain next time there are a couple inches in the tub. If that doesn't work call the landlord every time it happens.

A plunger in the tub won't do anything. The tub has an "overflow drain" just like a bathroom sink does (or should), that basically creates an "open" system right at the tub. If the drain is not working, using a plunger will only try to force water back up the overflow drain.

I'm still voting for a partial clog downstream, between the house and the street. Getting this from your comment about when you use the tub/shower itself, and it takes a while to drain out......even without the help from above.

There should be a cleanout plug somewhere that's accessible in the main drain stack; that's where RotoRooter (or whoever) will access the system.

 

[JC 97]

Ratdog has the right answer.I lived in an apartment years ago that did the same thing.The landlord called in a company and snaked the main line out and that cleared up the problem.

 

[Sunk]

A plunger in the tub won't do anything. The tub has an "overflow drain" just like a bathroom sink does (or should), that basically creates an "open" system right at the tub. If the drain is not working, using a plunger will only try to force water back up the overflow drain.

I'm still voting for a partial clog downstream, between the house and the street. Getting this from your comment about when you use the tub/shower itself, and it takes a while to drain out......even without the help from above.

There should be a cleanout plug somewhere that's accessible in the main drain stack; that's where RotoRooter (or whoever) will access the system.

Lol, right. I forgot about that. I managed to do this once but I had to seal the overflow. I was able to take the trim piece off and place my hand over it.

 

[pillen140]

Grey water and sewage must be run in seperate lines in your apt (they are in a lot of big buildings or places that serve food). Don't spend too much time looking for a clean out in your apt, you probably wont find one. For a large line especially in an old building, there is probably a cleanout in a maintenance room or possibly the laundry room. If you wanted to auger the line from your apt, you'd probably have to go from under the kitchen sink drain.... which is too small to do a main line from, you need a large machine such as a 300, the little electric ones (180) will just get tangled in the line or break.

 

[pillen140]

And no, its not going to be the roof vent. Each drain is going to be vented itself