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  1. J

    Please teach me my best option for using copper sulfate to prevent another sewage drain blockage.

    Square, I didn't just get it Roto-rooted. That was years ago when I started this thread. I haven't had any problems since then but I've totally messed up on following a scheduled use of Copper Sulfate. It makes me worry that I might go through that nightmare again. Back then, the water had...
  2. J

    Please teach me my best option for using copper sulfate to prevent another sewage drain blockage.

    Cool, thanks. Amazon sells 4 lbs containers of it for $68 or I can get 2 lbs with a funnel direct. Looks like you can use it yourself by pouring it down the cleanout. They say to use it annually. So, would Root-X be better than the Copper Sulfate that I still have some of? I've got to admit that...
  3. J

    Please teach me my best option for using copper sulfate to prevent another sewage drain blockage.

    Thanks. I got the 2nd newsletter notification email today also and it had an Unsubscribe at the bottom like yours did. But I swear yesterday's just said that if you didn't want these newsletters to change your settings on the website and I looked on the website and couldn't find anywhere that I...
  4. J

    Please teach me my best option for using copper sulfate to prevent another sewage drain blockage.

    BTW, I just got an email from the forum. Here's my printscreen of it. I've never gotten these before. Any idea how to stop them? I looked everywhere. This email came to me before I posted my other thing today. It's actually what drew me to remember my having asked about using copper sulfate to...
  5. J

    Please teach me my best option for using copper sulfate to prevent another sewage drain blockage.

    If there's roots growing in the lines pretty well in a wad that should maybe be Roto Rootered, does the copper sulfate kill them enough that eventually they break free? It seems like a wad of broken off dead branches could suddenly clog the sewage pipe, especially when the toilet was flushed.
  6. J

    Please teach me my best option for using copper sulfate to prevent another sewage drain blockage.

    You've got a curious system. I was wondering if you invented it? Things do come to my mind about what you said here. I'd read that you never want to put copper sulfate into any drains and only in a toilet or the cleanout. I swear it had said that the copper sulfate could harm the pipes used to...
  7. J

    Please teach me my best option for using copper sulfate to prevent another sewage drain blockage.

    Thanks Streblern. A few things: 1. Wouldn't any nylon stocking full of copper sulfate in a floor drain hurt the piping? I've read that you're only supposed to either flush it down the toilet or drop it into the cleanout which is a horizontal pipe (PVC?) that leads down to some PVC pipe that goes...
  8. J

    Please teach me my best option for using copper sulfate to prevent another sewage drain blockage.

    I live in a 2-story home that's built on a slab in southern California. Last week, I found my downstairs toilet seeping water (waste too?) out from under it, so I called Roto-Rooter. Their guy snaked it thru the 2-½” cleanout in my garage & got it draining but he told me that he couldn't fit his...
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