Has anyone had this or also has this.

When it rains hard we get a lot of air bubbles surfacing in the guest toilet bowl. The toilet works fine when it's not raining but when it does we can't flush the water in the bowl away, therefore no-one can actually use the toillet when it rains............Hhhmmmm, don't like telling guests to hold it til it stops raining. There's no leakage of waste when it works OK....all the other toilets in the house work OK raining or not

Anyone have any ideas as to what is happening / how to cure it????

I remember someone having a similar problem not long back but cant remember the topic name, sorry

Are you sure it's not methane gas?

If it is best not smoke on the loo.

no not methane, no smell at all

I Googled toilet drains when raining and found a site that says you may have a root problem. A tree root in the drain?

http://www.plbg.com/forum/read.php?1,264650

I've stayed at places before that did that, I just assumed it was the general drainage reaching capacity during the storm, but should run-off rainwater and septic be ending up in the same system? A normal system that is?

While we're on the plumbing issue, can anyone explain those PVC pipes you see sticking out of so many shophouses dripping water? Is this shower water coming out? Because... sometimes it's not raining and water is trickling out of there?

I was going to suggest frogs but they would have been eaten long ago.

Sound Like Cali4995 has got it, rain water mixing with foul drain tank and backing up the pipe to pan, when rain finish water levels back to normal. Toilet has gotta be on ground level or below, only solution I can think of, Raise the pan onto higher level, worth checking levels of Bath/shower drains too.

cali4995 wrote:I've stayed at places before that did that, I just assumed it was the general drainage reaching capacity during the storm, but should run-off rainwater and septic be ending up in the same system? A normal system that is?

While we're on the plumbing issue, can anyone explain those PVC pipes you see sticking out of so many shophouses dripping water? Is this shower water coming out? Because... sometimes it's not raining and water is trickling out of there?

Heard the bobbling noise many times too, even on the 3rd or 4th floor of some hotels mainly pattaya ones...probably working over-time.

and i am sure they are just over flows for water tanks or AC drain pipes,and not soiled water being emptied out on your head.

Maybe your toilet is a Hammers fans KoB

"I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air"

We have this problem when the rain comes down so fast that all of the plumbing outside the house is under water. Basically, its water pouring into the drain pipes, pushing the air inside the pipes into the house through the drains.

Smells terrible, too.

Easiest solution would be to cover the drains during the storms. Perhaps a better one would to be to install traps in the pipes that could withstand the back pressure.

rickfarang wrote:We have this problem when the rain comes down so fast that all of the plumbing outside the house is under water. Basically, its water pouring into the drain pipes, pushing the air inside the pipes into the house through the drains.

Smells terrible, too.

Easiest solution would be to cover the drains during the storms. Perhaps a better one would to be to install traps in the pipes that could withstand the back pressure.

Smells like methane?

When was the last time you had your septic tank emptied?...If its getting a bit full and the rain is overflowing the drainage it could be looking for an escape route to "Breathe"
If your guest toilet conection is closer to the tank than the main toilet it might explain the bubbles in only the one toilet

I know...you all think that that is a Sh1tty idea!
That or Mr Hankey (Sth Park) is vacationing in Kudjap

The main problem is that no house in First Home has u-bends in the drains...what do thais know....

The main problem is,you eat too much vegetables.
They composting in your body.
Comming out,falling down,splashing,whatever...bubbling

Try io eat more chicken.
They are flying.
Hard to catch them.You need more energy.
Less Bubbledubbledoo

Nobi's healthy program