I just read the sushi thread, and then decided to go here. Bad idea, as I now have lost all appetite for any sushi that I might have been going to eat. (like I was seriously going to eat it right after posting that message, but anyways… )
Yeah, this thread is gross… but every time the toilet got clogged at my parents’ house, I was the scapegoat! Unfair, yes… but was it true that I was the culprit? Sometimes… but not every time! It could have been that the toilet pipes were too narrow to accomodatethings over a certain size, and in fact, I know this to be fact for the downstairs bathrrom. (my sister’s)
However, I have been in my apartment for about twenty months or so, and I have yet to plus that one up. Yay for bigger pipes!
Another Doper chiming in to support the “Old Coat Hanger” methodology for resolving the blockage sans plunger. The only bad part about that is all the wet toilet paper which will lovingly wrap itself about the hook (oh, yes, use the hook end by the way).
" Use a wire hanger, either in its natural form or untwist it and shape as desired. You can throw away the hanger after you are finished if you like."
Yeah, you first. e.g. You’re cutting through some major logs with it & think you got it right, then you pull it out, the wire gets caught on the side of the bowl, you pull, it comes loose spraying your face with whatever was on it
Jay-sus you guys are a bunch of wimps! As a retired professional clogger I’ve personally overflowed (and clogged) as many as 120 different toilets. I used to keep a journal. I overflowed both industrial and private toilets by log or paper. Needless to say I was a screwed up kid with bathroom problems. I nailed the local McDonalds as many as 20 times in the year that I was keeping the journal. It was almost a game.
Back to the topic at hand.
If you have a log jam and no plunger, all you have to do is get a small plasic bag, put your hand in it, and then grab the log and split it into two or three pieces, remove bag and flush. This assumes that the toilet has not overflowed. If water is either spilling over the edge or slowly rising to the brim of the bowl you need to act quick. Grab anything available. Hell, if you’re sharing the bathroom with someone use their frigg’n toothbrush and buy them a new one (or clean it and put it back without telling them hehehehe…)
