In my 2nd floor bathroom all drains are clogged, this happened all at once. What is the problem?
The sink drains very slowly. The toilet does not want to flush the water down and the most worrisome thing is when you do flush, the toilet water is coming up through the drain in the tub!
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If I was to make a guess, some one flushed a diaper or a cloth down the toilet & it is stuck in the soil stack.
Now it is stuck some where between the first & second floor.
You could use a toilet auger. They make one that is long enough to go through the toilet & extend about 3 feet down the plumbing stack. You could be lucky & hook what ever it is & pull it out.
You could use a plumbers snake, but you would want to get one that was a least 15 feet long ( It should be long enough to go through the toilet & down the pipe past the first floor level)
Again you may be lucky & it hooked the problem or pushed it down pass the first floor level. (This type of snake don’t work to well in bigger pipes.)
They do have a tool that uses compressed air to blow the obstruction out also. Maybe you could rent one.
You can use drain cleaners also. It works best if the drain is draining a little. Pour drain cleaner in to the tub drain until it backs up in to the pipe & you can see it. As it goes down pour a little more in etc etc. You may need a minimum of a 1/2 gallon for the cleaner to reach the plug.
You could also use a plunger, but while this is an easy way it may not work very well.
Now remember that you should keep checking the down stairs fixtures for backing up as you may push the plug down the pipe & plug it up just below the first floor.
If this isn’t doing it for you. You may want to check the Yellow Pages for a plumber or drain cleaning company.
Because I have one I would fill the tub with a couple of inches of water & use my air tool in the toilet.
USA I agree with Floyd B – it seems that your drain stack is blocked between the first and second floor. I think you need to clean the line with a snake, and that a drain cleaner chemical like Drano is not the answer. If you are handy, buy a new wax ring for the bottom of the water closet on the second floor, remove the water closet, snake the line to remove the obstruction, and put the water closet back in place. If possible, pull the obstruction out instead of just pushing it further down the pipe. Before removing the water closet, empty the tank and bowl, and make sure the water is shut off. Before putting it back, completely remove the old wax ring, and put the new one on the bottom of the water closet (don’t put the wax ring on the floor flange, because sometimes you don’t sit the closet down in the right place the first time, and that will ruin the ring).