mark charon wrote:

hello,
ever since we moved into this house, our toilet (low flow) seems to
clog every so often. this toilet was purchased probably for around 100
dollars 3-4 years ago. (ive' never tried using the pluger.)

sometimes i have to use a 6ft snake to clear it but most times
a 3 ft snake will clear it just fine.

when it does clog, usually we still can flush but the flush is slow
and weak.

we tried different brands of toilet paper but with same result.

my sister lives in a house built in 1990. she also has this problem.
in her case, she uses the pluger and then it works fine.

someone suggested that previous owner may have some toys that got
accidentally flushed down.
does this sound like it??

how do you solve this problem?

will replacing to a better toilet fix this problem??

thank you in advance...
we have a house we built in 1972, had two of the old stile toilets,
never any problem.. well the tank on one broke and we had to replace it
with a 1.6 gal low flow toilet..... keep a plunger by it all the time...
tried different papers, no help.... last week it would not work even
with a plunger. seemed cloged pretty good... i tried to use an auger and
it did not work any better... could not get the auger to go down into
the toilet... i removed the whole thing and took it into the back yard
thinking i was gonna find a small bottle of whatever the kids have
sitting on one of those multi shelves over the toilet...... found out it
was two Q-tips with about a 6 in. piece of duct tape behind it and the
rest was paper packed all the way to the bottom hole... it was so packed
i could not get this 6 ft. auger down there to move anything(just
testing it to see if it would work)... i had to use some long needle
nose pliers and a garden hose..... from experience if this same thing
was in the older full flow toilet it would never had happened......
also i found out after one week of the new toilet (american standard
cadet) that there is a small float that goes onto a chain that pulls up
the flapper valve, you have to move the float all the way down so when
you flush the float will hold the flapper valve open long enough to let
more water go into the bowl from the tank to give you a better flush..
hope this helps.