Subject: Clearing blocked toilet with caustic soda
From: Timothy Murphy
Date: 22/07/04 13:59 GMT Daylight Time
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Malcolm Stewart wrote:

If it doesn't get round the u-bend, how do you expect it to work?

My first-floor toilet is blocked, as far as I can see
just after the U-bend.

I must say I wondered that.
The toilet does drain slowly,
taking maybe 30 minutes after flushing.
So I guess the sodium hydroxide should slowly get round the bend
if the level in the toilet is slightly above the U-bend.
I'll try it anyway (with gloves and goggles!)

Might be worth trying a length of rubber hosepipe shoved round the U bend and
try to push the blockage out.
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