I’ve never had a problem starting on step 4 and repeating a few times.
How does the hot water and soap help?
It won’t taste as bad when it splashes back into your mouth.
I’ve had success with just dish soap - it makes blockages “slide” more easily.
In the last flatshare I lived, I had a particularly annoying combination of a slow toilet and a flatmate incapable of solving any blockages. Whenever I’d see that, I’d go “fuck this”, squirt a silly amount of Fairy in the bowl (I’m talking like 100 ml at least) and usually the blockage would resolve itself overnight.
I’m guessing it’s to break down the fat / grease in the poop.
The hot water will speed up the reaction, with the added benefit of possibly expanding the pipe just enough to make a difference.
Just a guess, though!
Yikes. What are you flushing down your toilet that you need a auger to unclog it?
I know someone whose constipation leads to far too solid of logs that get stuck in the bends if they don’t use a large amount of fiber supplements (no matter what they eat).
If it’s the average western diet, it’s probably from the massive amount of toilet paper that was used to clean the asshole after their failure to use a bidet.
This is for Americans. Many of them are dumb enough to flush wet wipes.
Canadian here, recently had to get the toilet auger out because no one else in my house seems to understand you can’t flush wipes, no matter how much I tell them
They are unclogging it next time then surely
You know what, you’re god damn right they are
European here, I just had a particularly nasty shit this afternoon. The auger was my hero.
I would not brush my teeth on that sink ever.
There is always the possibility the clog isn’t in the toilet itself but further down the drain. You can test this by running faucets and seeing if the sinks drain properly
You will never clog a toilet if you get a bidet. Putting tons of TP in is how you get clogs.
You don’t have to use that much tp regardless of the bidet, and not use “flushable” wipes
Step 7: Just call a plumber XD
Be careful with the hot water. A friend cracked his toilet that way.
My plumber told me never to use a plunger in a toilet, and to use a snake instead. The back-and-forth motion from using the plunger can damage the wax seal and cause a leak.
Step 1 sounds funny to me. I would think it’s turn the water off, not remove top tank.
Top of the tank, as in the lid, so you can close the flapper and prevent the bowl from overflowing.
Lol, I can read, 🤦♂️
I’m picturing a person panicking and swatting the whole tank off the toilet, breaking the water line and spraying water everywhere.
Why wouldn’t it close normally like it always does? There’s no issue with the reservoir here.
If the toilet is actively flushing, water will continue to drain from the tank to the bowl. Closing the flapper stops any additional water from going into the bowl.
Personally, I prefer to make sure the tank only fills enough to fill the bowl, so as long as you don’t double flush, you don’t need to panic and throw the lid off the tank.
Because this guide is for american toilets.
Those are the only toilets I’m familiar with, at least with regards to maintenance and troubleshooting.
I’ve cleared a lot of clogged shitters, not once have I had to ensure the flapper is down in the reservoir. That’s “why won’t it stop running” not “why won’t I the water go down”.
Once the flapper lifts, it won’t close again until the tank empties completely. If the toilet clogs and you try too many times to flush it down instead of breaking out the plunger right away; sometimes the water can’t overflow out of the bowl fast enough to let the tank drain fully, so it just endlessly flows. Doesn’t happen to all toilets, but it’s still good to know when your toilet full of turds just won’t stop dumping water on the floor.
Right, I am aware of all this. Just shut the water off and go to the plunger steps.
Turning off the water will stop the tank from refilling. Closing the flapper stops the water in the tank from going into the bowl.
I would imagine most people aren’t fast enough on the draw to think about doing this first step.
In the case of my toilet: the chain that is used to lift it when flushing gets tangled, so it can’t close on its own until you detangle it.
I get that. That’s a totally different scenario than “clogged toilet”.
If you flush once and it doesn’t go down no problem, if you (or someone you know) tries to flush again no water will leave but the toilet valve tries to fill the bowl more.
So step one is to stop a potential flood of nasty water from overflowing to the floor
Sorry, I see what you mean. In this case, the stopper will stay open until the bowl reaches a certain fill limit, set by a float keeping the thing open; you’re trying to stop the bowl from filling more while it’s clogged so you have to close the valve in the tank manually.
The image shows the tank almost empty, but in reality it will probably still have enough water in there to cause a mess if you don’t stop it.
Hol up… You’re supposed to heat the plunger up first? I can only assume it’s to loosen up the rubber so it compresses better, but I’ve never felt like it was too stiff to not work.
It’s to reduce the chance of it cracking as rubber gets brittle at lower temps; especially a shit batch of cheap dollar store rubber. If it cracks it’s useless.
This was the part that I wouldn’t do just because I view the sink as mostly clean and plunger as mostly dirty. So unless I were to sterilize the sink afterwards I wouldn’t put a plunger in the sink.
Yeah seriously that’s gross as fuck. I wouldn’t even want to use a garage sink to rinse a plunger. It’s just too nasty for me. It gets rinsed outside with the hose.
Literally all i have to do is use the toilet brush and freneticly plunge it. Works every time.
I can smell this post
A cheap method to unblock anything:
- Remove any loose material.
- Now pour 30 gallons of jet fuel in the area.
- Ignite it but stand back at least a few feet.
Step four, you want to pull the fluid column up to unstick the trash, so go slow ‘down’ and somewhat more forceful on the ‘up’.
What about the poop knife?
Just one step. Superior really. Plus is that corn I see?
