Yet another toilet/plumbing question

[Wailer]

davestar, I agree. But with a wife and 2 young girls in the house I'm thinking that getting good at dealing with toilets might be a good investment!

Everytime I've called my local rooter service, they've used a tool hooked up to a cordless drill and done the job in about 5 minutes. I'm not sure how much of that is skill vs. the right equipment. I just saw something similar at my local hardware store. I once tried a hand snake, but that thing was worthless.

[OWC Jamie]

I'd unbolt the toilet.
If it is leaking, you probably need a new seal.

I don't really like the snakes.
The odds of actually pulling the problem out isn't the greatest.
The odds of pushing whatever it is further in and making a bigger problem is high.
A snake might pull out paper wads, but it won't pull out toys. Nor a combination.


I've never seen a snake that hooks to a drill.
You want to pull the wad out. Gingerly.
If you see nothing if you lift the toilet, look up in the toilet.
I once found a barbie in the toilet bend.
I really don't know how it got that far, but it did.
I've found legos, and my sister used to run out of TP and the kids (her, too, I'm sure) would use paper towels. Whole paper towels. Paper towels will wad up and cause the problem you have in a heartbeat.


The trick to putting the toilet back down is knowing the porcelin breaks rather easy, sit on it to get it tight to the floor, seating the wax, the bolts are only to stop it from moving.
Snug, not tight.

[OWC Jamie]

Oh, another indication for wadded up paper towels is the water drains (very slowly) but leaves the solids in the bowl.

That is disgusting.


Sometimes you just gotta do what ya gotta do.


I finally had to convince my sister she was to call me when she ran out of TP, not when the toilet backed up. That I'd rather buy her boys toilet paper, then lift toilets. Or try to snake/auger through days worth of "solids".


Funny now, it wasn't then.
:-)
Kids.



It would be nice if you could have the grandkids first.