Condo Kitchen Sink Backup

Tenant reported a kitchen sink backup incident in July.  The building maintenance came to rod the sink and clean the dirty water.  Last week, the same incident happened again.  The building did the rod again.  The backup damaged the laminate floor and drywall.  I filed a claim with my insurance company.  The insurance company wanted to know where the blockage located to determine coverage.  Our HOA property manager said the cause of the backup is unknown but the clog is at the branch line at my unit.

Anyone has experienced this before?  What is the cause of the kitchen sink backup?  How to fix this (it happened twice in 3 months).  The 2nd time when this happened, my next door neighbor unit had the kitchen sink backup too.  The building said it was because of the blockage on my side.

I am confused if it is my branch line got clogged, why that affected the neighbor's kitchen sink (sounds to me it was the main line that got clogged).  If it is my branch line, I am wondering what the tenant did to make it clog twice in such short period of time. 

Tenant want to break the lease and move out.  She still has 7 months of lease left.  Every time when this happened, the building staff came right away to work and clean the unit.  But tenant said the unit is not livable because she does not know when this will happen again. 

Can anyone please give me some idea on what might be the issue, how to fix this?  And also does tenant have the good reason to break the lease? 

Thanks in advice for any input!

 

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• let her go before she does more damage. 做地主不要太计较小钱。让她滚蛋，换个好的。我基本 -borisg- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/30/2019 postreply 19:02:19

• Install garbage disposal -越王剑- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/30/2019 postreply 19:07:29

• 用加压橡皮球一通即可。彻底根除要找到那段水管。 -sweetptt- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/30/2019 postreply 19:24:34

• 可能就是顾意的，想break lease. 一般kitchen sink不会堵那末快的 -pssci- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/30/2019 postreply 19:32:04

• 你不能到现场去看去分析就是个麻烦事 -201411- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/30/2019 postreply 19:42:00

• The building staff were there immediately even though I cannot g -sky222- ♀ (259 bytes) () 10/30/2019 postreply 19:52:56

• 洗菜池不用篦子或油太大？ -julie116- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/30/2019 postreply 20:22:14

• 可能是主下水道堵了，让HOA清理主道。你的单元是一楼吗？ -青山白水- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/30/2019 postreply 20:24:40

• I am at 30th floor, total 55 floor -sky222- ♀ (104 bytes) () 10/30/2019 postreply 20:39:00

• 你的condo几个人住？只有她一个人吗？你的building多老？比如是百年老building吗？ -Progressive- ♀ (684 bytes) () 10/30/2019 postreply 23:34:21

• 百年有这么高的楼吗。明显是新楼 -julie116- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/31/2019 postreply 09:44:07

• 我说百年老building不一定就是过了一百年，就是曼哈顿那种很老的building，常常要special assessment -Progressive- ♀ (32 bytes) () 10/31/2019 postreply 21:19:17

• It was rented to just one girl, it was built in 2003 -sky222- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/31/2019 postreply 09:47:18

• 不觉得一个女孩子住这样的condo会忙很多活，当然也是有可能有遇到乱来的。猜想如果是分管的问题，可能是 -Progressive- ♀ (596 bytes) () 10/31/2019 postreply 21:45:43

• Thanks for the input! -sky222- ♀ (20 bytes) () 11/01/2019 postreply 15:03:16