Thread: blocked toilet
View Single Post
  #2   Report Post  
John Stumbles
 
Posts: n/a
Default blocked toilet

wrote in message
...
First have you removed as much as poss by hand?
If you do not like the idea put some gloves on!
Put some strong cleaner down and leave over night - make sure this has
gone into the pipe - no good just in the pan.
Then try to flush with buckets of warm/hot water.
There are also people who enjoy doing this job - try yellow pages.


They enjoy taking your money off you too :-)

There's a wire spring gizmo (name I've forgotten, something American -
bought in B&Q) which has about 3-4' of steel spring mostly about 1/2 - 3/4"
dia but opening out to perhaps inch and a half dia for a couple of inches at
the end, where the turns are wider spaced. The spring goes through a rigid
plastic or metal tube about 18" - 2' long and has a handle on the other end
from the opened out bit. You shove the opened out end of the spring down the
pan and keep pushing while turning the spring via the handle - it worms its
way down around the bend and macerates the soggy loo roll which the toddler
dropped in the pan and which is now just around the bend blocking the works
:-)

Failing that you can remove the pan (unscrew base) and clear it the hard way
:-(



--
John Stumbles
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
-+
Load dropped, paperwork completed: job done.