Toilet part-blockage

Yorkie1

Apologies if you're eating when you read this

My toilet is flushing but not always 100% effective. After investigation it looks as though there is a solid #2 stuck just beyond the U-bend (can't get my hand any further round).

Obviously (?) I need to break the blockage up - the implement needs to be flexible to go round the curves, yet rigid enough to do the job. Would a piece of hosepipe do the job, do you think?

Plunger has not worked.

flang

Yes anything rigid would work, eg hose pipe, electrical cable etc.
Just got to be careful that you don't scratch the pan

ormus

i onced used an old fishing rod. (nothing else was close to hand).
it worked perfectly.

shegar

Oh dear, sounds as if your in the s... sorry I just had to say that ....:D

Yorkie1

shegar wrote: »

Oh dear, sounds as if your in the s... sorry I just had to say that ....:D

:rotfl:

My hand certainly has been :eek:

Thanks all, in the absence of fishing rod and existence of hosepipe, guess what I'll be doing later

27col

I would have though that a short length of hose should do the trick. Or maybe you should change your diet.

tigeress289

This may help, if the plunger you have has a long handle ,flush the toilet so the pan fills up, it should not overflow. Then plunge at a good ratw, the water will help break anything up. A metre drain rod with a 4" or 6" plunger on would be ideal. They are worth buying as they clear most blocks. A 15mm pipe bending spring would be easy to buy from any plumbers merchant. Good Luck

faerie~spangles

If you have an old fashioned curtain wire with a wee screw in hook attached would help break up the blockage.

A towel manually shoved as far as it will go and pulled out quickly might do the job.

The above have worked for me:o

Yorkie1

Curtain wire - yes, I do have some somewhere in one of those "it'll come in useful some day" boxes!

No idea what had been eaten so will have to pass on the diet advice!!

faerie~spangles

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Curtain wire - yes, I do have some somewhere in one of those "it'll come in useful some day" boxes!

Use both ends

Gotta love those:

"it'll come in useful some day" boxes!

maninthestreet

Have you identified the culprit that culprit who squeezed out the said log?