help! my toilet is clogged. anyone have any good remedies?

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other than the plunger, which i can't get to work for some reason. the internet says closet auger, but i dont know what that is. and i don't have money for a plumber...

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 9 December 2005 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

dont shit so much.

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

eat less fibre

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

You can't work a plunger?

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

i can work a plunger, but its not working now, for some reason

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 9 December 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

i remember a thread about those toilet snake things but i can't find it

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

sell the toilet so you can pay for a plumber

― oops (Oops), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

this toilet snake thing, do i have to buy it?

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 9 December 2005 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

plungers are too large for loos generally, the best thing to do is shove a mop down there and use it as if you are using a plunger - use the same motions making sure there is as tight a seal between the mophead and the sides of the downpipe thing. the mop may be unuseable afterwards!

if this doesnt work you need to get some really strong disinfectant type stuff (i cant rememeber the name of it but it breaks up whatever is down there) which you can buy at any hardware store, ask the staff. follow that with the same mop/plunger action then flush.

don't buy the supermarket type unblocking products (mr muscle or whatever) because they are generally crap. also dont phone a plumber because he will probably charge you a fortune then get you out of the room while he does what i just told you to do, and HE may well use a mop rather than a plunger too.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

one of these http://misc.stock308.com/archive/118_1887.jpg not one of these http://sneakykitchen.com/fullerbrush/images/sponge_mop.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 9 December 2005 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

use this kind of plunger :
http://www.imex.com/catalog/lavelle-b.jpg

not this kind:
http://images.hbpl.co.uk/hbi/site_old/plunger.gif

if that doesn't work, get a snake

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Friday, 9 December 2005 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jed knows about so many things!

I want to be like that.

― Mayor of Dutchtown (nordicskilla), Friday, 9 December 2005 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

pour a bucket of hot water into the bowl. pause, attempt to plunge. repeat if necessary.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 9 December 2005 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

no matter what happens, DO NOT give into the temptation to flush firecrackers down to bust up the clog.

― m bott, Friday, 9 December 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe a snake will work. Or maybe, you have roots that have grown into your underground pipe.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 9 December 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

The Drano gel shit works in drains but not in toilets. The key to plunger/mop operations is to really get into it. You have to be severe.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 December 2005 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tavie.com/mark/markshots/plunger3.jpg

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 9 December 2005 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

That guy looks pure amateur.

If you do use the plunger, your upstroke should be where you concentrate all of your energy. Kinda the opposite of sex. Not sure which is cleaner. Don't wear a tie, though - folks will skoff.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 9 December 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

if you have downstairs neighbors you may want to give them a heads up

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 9 December 2005 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

It might be good to actually phone an ambulance in advance.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 9 December 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Maybe a snake will work. Or maybe, you have roots that have grown into your underground pipe. "

does this really happen? if it doesn't, i feel stupid and its not funny.

thanks for all the help, everyone.

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 9 December 2005 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.toiletology.com/images/auger.gif $7-10 at your hardware store.

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Buy a new house.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Straighten out a metal coat hanger and use that to prod down the toilet bowl.

― C J (C J), Friday, 9 December 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

If you do use the plunger, your upstroke should be where you concentrate all of your energy. Kinda the opposite of sex.

Except teh anal.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 9 December 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

The same thing happened to us last January, and it was all because my 300-year old oak tree thrust its roots into my fifty-year old pipes. And you're right. It wasn't funny.

("Thrusting", in this case, took maybe thirty years, but the damage was just as bad.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 9 December 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

there is a slight sulphurous funk in our basement, I suspect heavy rain yesterday caused some sewage to back up into our sump pump workings? Have a call into plumber, wish me luck.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

We had a clog a month ago and bought an auger - those things will scratch up your porcelain, so be careful.

― def zep (calstars), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://presurfer.meepzorp.com/graphics/acpail.gif

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

oh boo. Let's try that again.

http://tom.ledger.name/img/acpail.gif

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, just piss and shit on the lawn, ffs.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

WTF is going on there, is he using the toilet as a bong?

― got yourself a fish biscuit! (nickalicious), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

This is seriously the best plunger you can buy:

http://www.tk409.com/images/plunger.jpg

― . . .and a soda on the side (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody commenting on Chewshabadoo's wise post = the world has gone mad.

Most builders merchants will sell flexible rods which generally do the trick, they screw together too. I remember when I lived in cornwall and we had a blockage in the septic tank we had to buy like eighty feet of the fuckers, me and my brother were running round fields scaring livestock with our eighty foot bendy rod. We had to make our own fun in those days.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer the plunger over having to ask a builders' merchant if he has a flexible rod for screwing together.

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

The full story on the toilet bong, or as it's properly known, the toilet snorkel.

― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

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