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Easy way to unblock toilet

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  • 13-01-2014 2:41pm
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    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,942 ✭✭✭✭


    Last week our toilet got blocked with kitchen paper somewhere past the bend and 24 hours later nothing had softened/budged.

    I'm so impressed by a friend's advice that I thought to post it here.
    I couldn't find the plunger, but they said it was better to cut the bottom off a large plastic bottle and to use that instead.
    The softish plastic adjusts to fit the toilet shape and IMO the 2 litres of air created a more powerful push than a plunger.

    Toilet unblocked in about 3 seconds.
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    lolosaur
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 433 ✭✭lolosaur


    lay off the curries.


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    corkgsxr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    A floor mop is brilliant too.


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    jack of all
    Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭jack of all


    Black refuse sack over the hand and up your arm and away you go!


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    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,942 ✭✭✭✭josip


    jack of all wrote: »
    Black refuse sack over the hand and up your arm and away you go!

    I had to do exactly that over Christmas.
    Was staying with friends however and didn't have access to a black sack :(


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    corkgsxr
    Registered Users Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭corkgsxr


    josip wrote: »
    I had to do exactly that over Christmas.
    Was staying with friends however and didn't have access to a black sack :(

    O gawd did ya have to use a white sack?


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    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,048 ✭✭✭OU812


    Pour a freshly boiled full kettle down & leave it a couple of minutes before flushing. It'll soften the blockage (assuming it's organic) and flush away.


    ...or you're left with stewed faeces...


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    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,942 ✭✭✭✭josip


    corkgsxr wrote: »
    O gawd did ya have to use a white sack?

    Would have loved to have had a white sack...


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    Chiparus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,270 ✭✭✭Chiparus


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgxw-cXq__w


    Not sure the landlord would be too happy.


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    DanWall
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    Had a problem over Christmas also, the turd was too big to go round the bend and stopping the paper, I had to get a knife and cut it up.


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    josip
    Registered Users Posts: 13,942 ✭✭✭✭josip


    DanWall wrote: »
    Had a problem over Christmas also, the turd was too big to go round the bend and stopping the paper, I had to get a knife and cut it up.

    Before or after you carved the turkey with it? :D

    Reminds me. A few years ago our little fella swallowed some sharp plastic. For 10 days afterwards I had to chop up his poo into tiny pieces in the potty to see if the plastic had come through.
    It's amazing what kinds of food we don't digest.
    Less amazing is how much ****e smells when it's out of water.


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    anthonyos
    Registered Users Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭anthonyos


    DanWall wrote: »
    Had a problem over Christmas also, the turd was too big to go round the bend and stopping the paper, I had to get a knife and cut it up.

    jesus I hope you had some sudacream to hand


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,306 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Brilliant way to not block a toilet: don't flush kitchen paper.


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