Hello all and thanks in advance for any help that you may be able to provide. I just bought a house and the ceiling in the garage has a wet spot on it. I have removed a 4ft by 4ft section and plan on removing all of the drywall that has been wet. Above were the wet spot in the drywall are two pvc pipes. One I assume to be the toilet drain and the other I assume is the vent. Whenever I get my wife to flush the toilet I can see a small drop come down the drain tube and then drip on the floor or were the wet spot in the drywall use to be. I can’t tell were the leak is coming from, but it looks like it is coming from somewhere close to the floor. My question is, would it be a safe bet to pull up the toilet and replace the wax ring? I am thinking that it is coming from a faulty wax ring or it is coming from the part were the flange goes into the drain pipe. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi, We have a two-story house with basement, with a private well. The problem I have is that when we flush one of the toilets, the water pressure drops to almost zero. The shower can be running with a nice, hard, steady pressure, and keep running for a long time with no noticeable pressure change, until you flush a toilet. Then it drops to a trickle -- I'm not exaggerating, the water literally [I]trickles[/I] out of the shower head. It will continue trickling, even long after the toilet has finished flushing, until you shut it off, let it sit for a minute (more likely two), and then turn it back on. The same problem occurs with the bathroom and kitchen faucets -- they drop to a trickle when a toilet is flushed. There did not seem to be a problem with the pressure tank, but just to be sure, I recharged it tonight. The pump kicks on at 40 PSI, and off at 60 PSI. So I shut off the well, opened a basement faucet until the water stopped running, closed the faucet, and pressurized the tank to 38 PSI. When I turned the well back on, it ran until the pressure hit 60 PSI, and shut off. I ran the basement faucet full open, and the pressure in the tank s-l-o-w-l-y dropped until it hit 40 PSI, then the well turned on, and the pressure made its way back up to 60 PSI. So far, no problem. Turned the faucet off and went upstairs and turned on the shower. Got a nice, hard, steady stream of water. Flushed the toilet . . . . shower dropped to a trickle. I don't get it. A toilet uses what . . . two or three or maybe four gallons of water? And gets fed by a 1/4" pipe?? What the heck is going on here? By the way, there are a water softener and a sulfur-removal filtration system right after the pressure tank. But I've got the valves for those on bypass for right now, so they're not the culprits.