Our loo is blocked!
Jeepers, it's just one disaster after another in this place!
Oh dear, now it's the loo. Yup, it's bunged up a good'un alright. One flush and the water goes all the way up to the top and takes ages to go down.
It ain't dirty water, so there's no big 'ol turdio down there. Must be paper.
10 boiled kettles of water haven't shifted it.
Shoving a wire coathanger all the way around the bends hasn't done anything either.
Almost bought some of that sulphiric acid, but I'm not sure if you can just chuck it down the pan.
What's the best way to get this sorted?
Please?
Oh dear, now it's the loo. Yup, it's bunged up a good'un alright. One flush and the water goes all the way up to the top and takes ages to go down.
It ain't dirty water, so there's no big 'ol turdio down there. Must be paper.
10 boiled kettles of water haven't shifted it.
Shoving a wire coathanger all the way around the bends hasn't done anything either.
Almost bought some of that sulphiric acid, but I'm not sure if you can just chuck it down the pan.
What's the best way to get this sorted?
Please?
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sink unblocker?
toilet brush?
sulphurics not too bad to go down the drain, itll just lower the ph a bit :P we use it at work, its normally the other way round tho, if acid goes down we put some alkali based stuff down (like caustic soda or sodium carbonate) to raise the ph but thats purely cos we get checked from the water board so need to keep it inside the agreed range :P
Basically put the plug in your sink and bath, and flush the loo.
Then put plenty of bleach and washing up liquid down the loo - wait for 5 minutes or so (till loo is dropped) and THEN try your boiling water from the kettle - boil the kettle near the loo if you can do so safely so the water is as hot as possible..
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I'd rather not. I'm hoping there's a good, 'fix-it-yourself' method. Plumbers have totally wrecked our property in the past. In fact, any 'proffesional' handyman has been nothing but trouble.
There's nothing close for a brush to dislodge. If I can just chuck sink-unblocker or sulphuric acid down the loo, then I'll give that a go.
How about when it gets to all the plastic pipes after being flushed?
That'll be what I try next. :)
IT WORKED!!!
That is totally marvellous, thank you lots.
Boy, the sound that thing made when it all gave way. Glugluglugluglugvrooom!
You guys should bring out, 'The WoS handyman's workbook!' :D
Thanks again.
Now I just need to lessen all the scratches I made to the nice porceline while poking about with a coathanger. The missus aint happy about that! :S Lots more bleach and elbow grease me thinks.
Same thing happened to us this morning...
I just poured loads of hot water into the loo, did the trick.
That and waiting a while.
The other options are sink unblocker and/or bleach.
Mechanical means at your disposal are bent coat hangers and toilet brushes.
Edit:
Glad to hear it is fixed.
RWAP: I'll file away your fix for reference. :)
Get one of the big plastic concertina type plungers, rather than a normal rubber hemisphere on a stick.
I don't know the old Daleks use those with great efficiency;)
Failing that sometimes a bucket of water poured in (sometimes!) works, maybe because the sudden weight shift or something not sure.
Occasionally when its come to the top I've gone to get the plunger out of the shed and returned to find its dropped by itself, ie the weight of the water for minute or two had forced it all through the pipes etc.
And you need to repeatedly pump the handle on the one at work or you end up with floaters :lol:
And this whole thread really is a great idea for a CGC entry! :D
Next morning, upstairs flushed their loo and it came up through my toilet and flooded the whole bathroom, there was some mess to clean, the landlord had a look and found that the outside pipe was totally blocked by loo roll, he washed it away with hot water and it was fine.
The mess took ages to clean and was horrible (lots of little brown bits on the floor) the landlord gave me a hand which helped.
the other thing with the dual flush toilets.. some people won't use the full flush when they drop a log. Thats what blocked here in the past. although if I had known the water was gonna be that slow to fix, I'd have got the other pipe done, but it costs a lot.. as the water is too slow to fill (had to cap the pipe that was used before as it was leaking).. and people kept using it and the paper built up.. without flushing properly..
sis's place they shared with the neighbours and a ex-hedgehog blocked the pipe, so they backed up next door.
I've managed to shift unholy blockages with only brute force and an air tight seal...
I was tempted to make a comment relating to smash elsewhere.. but decided against it, in case you got quizzed by folks on ya friends list :)
along the lines of .. if you are cooking, avoid smash hehe
"ex-hedgehog" :lol:
That reminds me me of a dump my youngest did a few weeks ago. Four flushes later and the bloody thing hadn't budged! She must have been eating lead or something. In the end I had to dump some hot water down there from a height to mash it up a bit!
+1
I creased up laughing reading that :lol: