Yes, …happened to read something about some people that had the same experience and also pipes inside the home...and blamed powders but IMO it's not detergent's fault, well perhaps some cheap or bad formualted ones that are overfilled with problematic ingredients, but not all...personally I don’t know anyone who had this problem nor us and we use prowders from a life, but yes certain powders that do contain high quantity (kind of nonsense-high) of zeolites or like fillers (non soluble) and also soda, and in presence of hard water these great quantities of builders like soda will create some precipitations, add that to poor pipes manteinance, the wear and or not proper materials and you may get a clogged pipe over the years in relation to these causes...they're all causes....
But often is one of those reasons taken singularly that cause the problems more, I mean, you can say you used TOL powders all your life, but if you had pipes made of concrete then here's the thing, or never pour descaler, or maybe one could say he has plastic pipes, but he uses crappy powders.....etc...
Liquids don’t typically contain many precipitating ingredients as the powders, but
the problem is not overturned anyway… liquids often require “help” to build a satisfactorily washing solution, especially in hard water, and many (most) miss bleaches also, so unless you will not use some peroxide, you will need to add perborate or percarbonate and they’ll form precipitations .
Will talk mostly of detergents and such even though I hate and avoid like plague low flush toilet and yet another time I am flattened and shocked by such mandatory things and how they tell you what to do in your own house...but that's another thing...
Anyway....today’s machine that pretend to wash using no water are also partially to blame…. but not totally....
Let’s say that the fact you have concrete drains is another important reason as I said, as concrete like other porous materials is fertile soil for precipitations and lint to stick with, gunk from grease and food from the kitchen will do the same or worse....…..
For pipes inside home:
Over the time pipes gets weared and become always more porous and prone to collect particles from whatever pass through, then more porous is the more they collect and block/attract stuff...
If your pipe material can stand such products, for kitchen pipes you may use caustic soda crystals and boiling water since soda will be effective on greasy dirts, while for laundry and toilets, some mild chloridric acid poured in from time to time will help removing all the scale and precipitations patina and build up soaps and detergent creates….that’s the best manteinance you can do.
Most of products like drano etc..are all caustic sodas (hydroxide), but for scale and precipitations you better use an acid, not a base....acid will remove the residues of bases.
You could do this like twice a year.....
Not a case many of those washing machine cleaners are infacrt made by acids, you could also pour more often some sorts of milder acids such as citric.....and basics, as washing soda instead of caustic soda (sodium hydroxide)....
I think all relies in manteinance.....and if you have a problematic piping both for materials used or whatever this gains lot more importance to avoid expensive repairs granted that you know your piping or you may end up doing the opposite, I mean if you had lead piping then maybe a strong chloridiric acid is not a good thing, but a diluited amount from time to time or a milder acid will make no arm and will keep your pipes clean.
But let's just don't blame detergents, kitchen grease a food does the same thing, lint too......
Soap (bars) is also known for it's gunky residues ....
For sewers pipes.....well... not sure how that had happened, but I think it should have deposited before making their way into the outtake....is your septic the right dimension?
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