Blocked toilet - Help!!

mineallmine

Buy a plunger from wilkinson (don't cost much) for next time. Just a rubberised cap on a stick. Very handy.
Did have a more complicated one that you pumped and it apparently helped blast pressure but it didn't work all that well.
I used lots of drain cleaner in the past for things like this, all it did was just that sadly. The plumber commented on how clean the drain outside looked!

The plunger is the environmentally friendly version, no chemicals, just elbow grease.

katies_mum

I just use a metal coat hanger when ours gets blocked, I just wiggle it about at the top of the pipe and it normally sorts it out.

danbart

Take notice of mineallmine,He/She's got it spot-on.

bookduck

Hot water makes the paper dissolve faster too

sassybooboos

i blocked mine with one of the plastic toilet freshners/cleaners that sit inside your loo.

i did mine using metal coat hanger and a plunger took quite a while but worked in the end.( good job weren;t on water meter amount of times it got flushed)

good luck!!!!!!!!!

sillyvixen

PLUNGER is a good investment . i have mine from living with housemates in a rental property who eat (only rational explanation for three rolls being used in under 3 hours) bog roll and then blocked bog with kitchen roll....try it and see sorts out the problem eventually. i keep it in case but have moved out and dont need it.

harryhound

If you still cannot shift it from above, you will have to open up the manhole cover or rodding eye from the garden end and see if it will shift using drain rods.
Start off with the push-pull rubber washer and if necessary resort to the "bedspring" fitting to screw out the blockage.

Don't screw the rods in the wrong direction and stuff a ball of wire netting into the outlet of the manhole, to prevent the blockage wizzing between your legs and getting stuck in the next section.
(I extracted a quantity of partly decomposed sanitary towels once, had to tip what looked like a bucket of dead fish into the dustbin).

stingray_316

harryhound wrote: »

If you still cannot shift it from above, you will have to open up the manhole cover or rodding eye from the garden end and see if it will shift using drain rods.
Start off with the push-pull rubber washer and if necessary resort to the "bedspring" fitting to screw out the blockage.

Don't screw the rods in the wrong direction and stuff a ball of wire netting into the outlet of the manhole, to prevent the blockage wizzing between your legs and getting stuck in the next section.
(I extracted a quantity of partly decomposed sanitary towels once, had to tip what looked like a bucket of dead fish into the dustbin).

:eek: l would rather get someone in.

bottleredhead

The mop always works for me; kids block my loo so many times keep a spare mop to hand at all times!

Use the "string" type or vileda, works wonders!

carriebradshaw

dfub wrote: »

My favourite is to tip a bucket of water down the loo real fast, this had cleared *ahem* blockages in the past. I would try chemical remedies as a last resort just in case any water splashes back at you and ends up burning you.

yes that's what we do too,bucket or washing up bowl of water thrown down the pan with as much force as you can muster then flush straightaway, it works a treat