Blocked toilet - Help!!

ljonski

I trust that the OPs toilet has been successfully unblocked after all these years. There has been a recent pong around Caerphilly but this may be cheese related!

harryhound

I don't think there has been an amazing improvement in toilet unblocking technology, nor more sensible users of the same in the last few years,

So this advice is as good as it has ever been.

ckpa123

I tried all the above methods with no success whatever. I then took my garden hose (attached to the outside tap), fed it in through the bathroom window, pushed it as far as I could down the toilet, and then left it running full blast for about 5 minutes. It cleared the lot!

HanSpan

Well I'm glad to have found this thread - event though its a few more years old!
I suspect I did it with high quality kitchen paper used to clean up cat wee but whatever it was I have the filling up and very slowly draining issue.
I'm just debating which method to try first as we have neither plunger nor wire coat hangers but I can see an old mop outside in the rain and I know I have a bottle of caustic soda, as well as a bottle of plughole unblocker that I think is pretty much the same chemical.
Hmm. Another cup of tea first and ponder I think. I can't say I relish the idea of the mess of plunging with a mop.

marplesome

I unblocked my daughter's toilet last week using Toilet Ninja. Found it on Amazon while looking for a plunger. :dance:

wood63al

Tried mop, hot water, cheap cola eventually chemicals nothing worked then read about a whole bag of salt last try before calling in professionals and guess what it worked !!!!

JohnB47

I can't resist joining in on this very old thread.

I suspect that the real reason that people eventually manage to unblock their loo, is that by the time they've tried various methods, time had done the job for them by softening whatever blocked it in the first case.

So my advice is, if it blocks, just try not using the loo for as long as possible - at least a couple of hours, preferably much longer. Then try flushing. I can't really see how putting stuff like salt down a loo does anything, apart from perhaps leaving it for a while to 'work', thereby giving the blockage time to soften all on its own.

Of course, if you're going to put stuff down there that doesn't soften with time, then on your own head, or bathroom floor, be it.