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Hi,
We moved house a month or so ago and have noticed this problem. Basically we have a main bathroom upstairs with an ensuite adjacent to it. The toilet from each bathroom flushes to a horizontal pipe which goes into the vertical soil pipe. So furthest from the S/Pipe is the ensuite toilet, then next is the main toilet, then into the vertical pipe. The problem is that when the ensuite is flushed, some 'dirt' (for want of a better word!) ends up in the bottom of the main toliet. A plumbers merchants suggested this could be some kind of syphonic pressue thing, and I could maybe put an air valve in the horizontal pipe? But this would of course be lower then the overflow for the sink! - so does not seem good - or to code.
Apparently it's a not unheard of problem - any help greatly appreciated
We moved house a month or so ago and have noticed this problem. Basically we have a main bathroom upstairs with an ensuite adjacent to it. The toilet from each bathroom flushes to a horizontal pipe which goes into the vertical soil pipe. So furthest from the S/Pipe is the ensuite toilet, then next is the main toilet, then into the vertical pipe. The problem is that when the ensuite is flushed, some 'dirt' (for want of a better word!) ends up in the bottom of the main toliet. A plumbers merchants suggested this could be some kind of syphonic pressue thing, and I could maybe put an air valve in the horizontal pipe? But this would of course be lower then the overflow for the sink! - so does not seem good - or to code.
Apparently it's a not unheard of problem - any help greatly appreciated
