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Followup on https://poal.co/s/DIY/726745. When my washer drained, it'd create a suction and drain my toilet bowl...allowing sewer gases to escape. I ran my endoscope down my sewer vent and found a desiccated bird's nest (complete with a bird I'm pretty confident died when Ramses II was still reigning). I cleaned that out and now everything is functioning as expected. No more toilet draining, no more sewer gases.

Thanks to everyone for your advice, it helped!

Followup on https://poal.co/s/DIY/726745. When my washer drained, it'd create a suction and drain my toilet bowl...allowing sewer gases to escape. I ran my endoscope down my sewer vent and found a desiccated bird's nest (complete with a bird I'm pretty confident died when Ramses II was still reigning). I cleaned that out and now everything is functioning as expected. No more toilet draining, no more sewer gases. Thanks to everyone for your advice, it helped!

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[–] • 3 pts

Glad to hear it! With modern construction where inspection actually occurs, improper/insufficient venting is fairly rare. However I've seen houses with drain lines running over 10 feet to a drop without venting.

@stupidbird - Sounds like there's a need to schedule and commission a new spy drone.

[–] • 2 pts

We already did. Thank you for noticing.

[–] • 1 pt

Right on, I have been waiting for this update post! I'm glad it all worked out. I assume you gave the culprit bird an appropriate send off.

[–] • 0 pt

Great news, and something to store away.

[–] • 0 pt

Glad you were able to resolve it. I never thought about it being the vent. I did have a drainage issue one time and the advice was to flush hot water down the sewer vent on the roof. It worked that time for some reason but the real problem was that the sewer line was old as hell and in bad shape so when the ground was soft again we had to replace it.

[–] • 1 pt

The sewer line was my first thought too, but I'd scoped it recently and it was clear. I've never had to mess with sewer vents beyond "I know what they are and they just work" so I'm glad Poal was able to point me in the correct direction.