New Home Guest bath clogs with solids, has dirt in bowl, HELP PLEASE

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We moved into brand new home 6 months ago. We have well water and the pipes are PVC. The guest bathroom toilet clogs when solids are flushed, and we are EXTREMELY mindful of not using a lot of toilet paper or flushing ANYTHING else in toilet. Also the tub in that bathroom when you drain it, it is very slow and makes the toilet bubble. We have had the plumbers who built house out twice. Both times they "clear" what they say was clogging toilet, basically toilet paper, and then it will flush ok, but the minute you flush solids it backs up again. We rarely use the bathroom and can't believe using it for a bowel movement maybe once a month would cause it to clog every time. The plumbers out today and seems to be flushing, but now there is dirt specs in the toilet every time you flush it. We have not tried to flush solids in it yet, but feel it will just back up again. When we flush our master toilet, it's fine, no dirt specs or clogging issues. The guest bath toilet is farest from the septic tank and the piping for it has to travel the whole length of our house to get to septic.
We are feeling like there is something seriously wrong, like maybe the pipes were not laid at the right angle when house built, thus not draining with enough force to make it to septic.
We are just at our wits end, and this is a brand new house. Asking for ANY advice please.

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You can hire a drain company or a septic company to use a scope with camera to follow the line from the toilet to the tank. They can tell you if there is a clog in the line, a bend in the line, improper slope, a crushed pipe, etc. They use a water jet to clear an obstruction.

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pleballerina
last month
Yes-have the line scoped with a camera. We had something similar happen in a new build years ago; we had a half bath on the first floor and the toilet would back up. It turned out that the slab folks drove rebar through the sewer line when they laid the foundation because they mis-measured the lot. The house was still under warranty so the builder had to pay for the repairs and plumbing expenses.
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JAN MOYER
last month
Call the septic folks.
Hope Stewart
last month
Agree with above statements. It is possible that not enough attention was paid to how the pipes run from this "far bathroom" to the main sewer line out... there may not be enough of a "drop" over the run of pipes. I'm guessing your lot or the land your house is built on is fairly flat? Our lot has very little slope at all and this happened to us when we bought our house (not a new build). The farthest bathroom toilet clogged with only toilet paper and there were gurgles in that shower. Turns out the pipes needed to be lifted higher near bathroom and we had to move a section of HVAC ductwork to make it possible for there to be enough "drop" over the distance the pipes traveled to our main sewer line out. After fixing that, 8 years on we've had no further issues with that bathroom/clogs/gurgles.
millworkman
last month
" We moved into brand new home 6 months ago. "

Pull your pants up and get assertive with the builder before your warranty expires, which is why he is dragging his feet as he know it may be an expensive fix.
chispa
last month
We had a similar problem with 1 of 5 toilets in the new house. All the toilets are the same brand/model. The plumber snaked it twice, third time he used the camera and found nothing. They replaced the toilet and we haven't had any issues since then.

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