Things You'll Need:
- 3/4-inch garden hose (long enough to reach from your sewer intake to the faucet adapter)
- Pipe wrench
- Large buckets
- Boots
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Step 1
Open the sewer clean-out cap by unscrewing the cap with a pipe wrench. If plumbing is backed up in your system, be prepared for waste water under pressure to flow forcefully out of the cap when the seal is broken. Release the seal slowly and carefully and have large buckets ready to catch the water as it flows out. This water must drain before you can insert the garden hose.
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Step 2
Screw the sewer line bubbler onto the garden hose securely. This connection is a typical male/female threaded connection. Make sure a rubber gasket (seal) is present inside the threaded connection of the sewer line bubbler. Tighten the connection with a pipe wrench to make sure that it is very tight.
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Step 3
Insert the sewer line bubbler into the sewer pipe. Make sure that the sewer line bubbler is able to be inserted past any intersections in your sewer pipe where sewer water may be able to flow back and into another point in your home (kitchen, bathroom).
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Step 4
Ask your assistant to begin to turn the garden hose gradually to the point that it is all the way on. While your assistant is turning the hose on, hold the garden hose in the sewer pipe securely. You must make certain that the garden hose does not move when the hose is turned on and that the sewer line bubbler does not move out of position with the initial pressure of the water.
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Step 5
Wait for 10 to 20 seconds to be certain that the sewer line bubbler has expanded and sealed off the sewer pipe. Some backflow of water may occur initially before the seal forms, but after the seal has formed by the sewer line bubbler, there will be very little water coming out of the sewer pipe (even though the garden hose is on full blast).
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Step 6
Wait for pressure to build on the clog in the sewer pipe. Several factors affect how long this takes. How extensive the clog is, how deep the clog is in the sewer pipe and how strong your water pressure is all affect how long it takes for the sewer line bubbler to work on unclogging a sewer pipe. The process may take between five and 45 minutes to complete. If you are listening carefully, you may hear a whooshing sound as water suddenly moves past the clog to indicate that it has cleared.
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Step 7
Turn the water off after approximately 45 minutes (even if you did not hear any sounds indicating that the clog cleared) and wait approximately 30 seconds for the sewer line bubbler to deflate. Pull the Clog Buster out of the sewer pipe.
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Step 8
Ask your assistant to turn on several household faucets and flush a toilet. As the household water is used, stand at the open sewer pipe and observe whether the waste water flows freely or begins to back up. If it flows freely, replace the sewer clean-out cap and tighten it securely with the pipe wrench. Rinse off the sewer line bubbler well to clean off any sewer debris.
If the water begins to back up again, repeat the process. Consider calling a professional plumber or pipe repair service at this point.
