"Toller" wrote in message
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"Jeff Wisnia" wrote in message
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Toller wrote:

I have a 23 year old Eljer toilet that has recently started clogging up
badly. I plunge it, it flushes normally with water, then clogs up
immediately. It is getting tiresome.

Any idea why I am suddenly having this problem and what I can do about
it? I have a toilet auger, but if it flushes normally with water, then I
don't see that it would be useful; and it is such a job to dry (My sons
swear that nothing improper has gone it it...)

Chances are quite good that something like a plastic prescription pill
bottle got flushed down it and is stuck crosswise in the trap, and the
closet auger is sliding right past it.

Short of running a small endoscope down it to see if there *is* a foreign
object stuck there, your next option is to pull the toilet, tip it over
and see what you find.

I just did that to another toilet last month, yes, to get a pill vial out.
Really didn't want to go through it again so soon, but you are probably
right.


Get bigger pill bottles.

If its not that, you may have a partial clog further down the drain. easy
to determine once the toilet is up.