The downstairs toilet was backing up into the toilet. GROSS! After the tub filled up about halfway, realized that the main pipe was clogged and couldn't use any drains in the whole house. Then I talked to a plumber, that just happened to be at a neighbor's house, said that the pipe outlet in the front yard needed to be cleaned out. My 3 boys told me that they had stuck rocks down the pipe, and after more prodding they said that they had used a rubber mallet to hammer huge fist sized rocks into the pipe. When the technician came to our house and realized what happened, he spent a LOT of his time to shimmy those rocks out of the pipe. Extremely grateful for his patience, so we didn't have to dig up our front yard to replace the entire pipe!
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