For you plumbing diy'ers: I have an absolutely serious question.

My mother accidently flushed some panties down the toilet. She has used
several 5 gallon buckets of water to flush them through. Is there a danger
of backup? I have a pipe snake that I use for my toilets if the plunger
doesn't work.

Should I use this as a safety precaution or wait and see?

I would just wait and see, unless of course the toilet is not flushing
normally. Once the panties clear the toilet itself they have a good 4" of
pipe to fit through and unless there is build up on the walls of this main
pipe there really shouldn't be a problem.

Searcher

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:50:33 -0600, "CJ"
wrote:

For you plumbing diy'ers: I have an absolutely serious question.

My mother accidently flushed some panties down the toilet. She has used
several 5 gallon buckets of water to flush them through. Is there a danger
of backup? I have a pipe snake that I use for my toilets if the plunger
doesn't work.

Should I use this as a safety precaution or wait and see?



Not much you can do about it anyway. It will either back up,
or it won't. If it does, then find the clog and clear it.

It's pretty much the same thing you'd do now, if you were
trying to be pre-emptive.

CJ wrote:

For you plumbing diy'ers: I have an absolutely serious question.

My mother accidently flushed some panties down the toilet. She has used
several 5 gallon buckets of water to flush them through. Is there a danger
of backup? I have a pipe snake that I use for my toilets if the plunger
doesn't work.

Should I use this as a safety precaution or wait and see?




That prolly depends on what size panties your mother wears, but I won't
go there. G

I'll go along with what the others have said, if it ain't broke yet,
don't fix it.

Jeff

--
Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."

it have happened a few times but so far so good. no clogs

run lots of water on all faucets and flush repeatedly to help move it
along. with any luck it will be a fiunny future discussion

thats kinda kinky

http://www.minibite.com/america/malone.htm

Reminds me of the time my buddy was cleaning out a septic well and his
coat fell in. He was trying to fish it out and I told him to leave it
alone. The coat was ruined anyway. But he insisted on retrieving it,
because his lunch was in the pocket.

Lena

spartacus wrote:
I think the panty pervert flushed them on purpose.

Blame the underpants gnomes.

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All rude people are impertinent.
Therefore, no rude people are relevant.
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