Unglog Toilet Methods?
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Depends.
Is there a clog in the toilet trapway, closet auger.
If there is a clog below the floor, get your drains snaked.
1. How quickly does the water recede?
2. If you wait 1/2 hour, and flush does the water take longer to back up, or about the same. If longer, that would tend to point to a clog downstream some.
On thing that you can try is to get a big container, at least 5 gallons. Pour water into the bowl from the container from as high as you readily can as fast as you dare. The deluge may wash the obstruction thru.
If the toilet is closer to the septic tank, it may be that your septic tank needs pumping.
So various things can be the cause of what you describe.
Is there a clog in the toilet trapway, closet auger.
If there is a clog below the floor, get your drains snaked.
1. How quickly does the water recede?
2. If you wait 1/2 hour, and flush does the water take longer to back up, or about the same. If longer, that would tend to point to a clog downstream some.
On thing that you can try is to get a big container, at least 5 gallons. Pour water into the bowl from the container from as high as you readily can as fast as you dare. The deluge may wash the obstruction thru.
If the toilet is closer to the septic tank, it may be that your septic tank needs pumping.
So various things can be the cause of what you describe.
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LLigetfa
DIYer, not in the trades
Depends on what clogged it.
1. Get a better plunger that holds more volume and seals better to the bowl. Burp out trapped air so the plunger moves more liquid. Try to get the plunger to work on the upstroke as well.
2. Fill the bowl as high as you dare to have more pressure against the plunger.
3. Till the bowl with warm water to soak and soften the stool but not so hot that it melts the wax ring.
1. Get a better plunger that holds more volume and seals better to the bowl. Burp out trapped air so the plunger moves more liquid. Try to get the plunger to work on the upstroke as well.
2. Fill the bowl as high as you dare to have more pressure against the plunger.
3. Till the bowl with warm water to soak and soften the stool but not so hot that it melts the wax ring.
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Jeff H Young
In the Trades
some say liquid dish soap can lubricate and make stuff move. I try iot sometimes I think it can help, not like a magic trick but seems to help sometimes
I will not install or service a Kohler toilet. Gerber avalanche is cheap and never gets a stoppage.
I installed over 10,500 Gerber and Crane toilets during the NYC toilet change out not a single call back .
One thing I must say about Kohler they advertise "The Bold Look" but I never saw the word quality in their advertisements.
One of my accounts bought a "Kohler" from a fancy plumbing store ball cock for $78.00 I did not want to tell her it was a Fluid-master 400 A and at that time they cost $3.19 and the rubber disc cost .75
I found it amazing that the plumbers who did install a Kohler left a plunger along side with their company name on it.
Another toilet I will not install or service is a Flushmate pressure assisted toilet.
I installed over 10,500 Gerber and Crane toilets during the NYC toilet change out not a single call back .
One thing I must say about Kohler they advertise "The Bold Look" but I never saw the word quality in their advertisements.
One of my accounts bought a "Kohler" from a fancy plumbing store ball cock for $78.00 I did not want to tell her it was a Fluid-master 400 A and at that time they cost $3.19 and the rubber disc cost .75
I found it amazing that the plumbers who did install a Kohler left a plunger along side with their company name on it.
Another toilet I will not install or service is a Flushmate pressure assisted toilet.
