Is there a "Draino" type unclogger for toilets? My toilet seems to get
clogged frequently requiring a vigorous use of a plunger. What can I
use to help this situation (other than a snake)?


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

You probably have an object in there that drano will not dislodge. It
may be better to remove the toilet and remove the
obstruction-----toothbrush, childs small toy, tampon, anything. I
owned rental properties once( yes I know..what was I thinking) and this
woman had all kinds of things lodged in there...all of the above and
then some. Good Luck !
---MIKE--- wrote:
Is there a "Draino" type unclogger for toilets? My toilet seems to get
clogged frequently requiring a vigorous use of a plunger. What can I
use to help this situation (other than a snake)?


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

On 16 Dec 2006 18:05:59 -0800, "Teo2006" wrote:

You probably have an object in there that drano will not dislodge. It
may be better to remove the toilet and remove the
obstruction-----toothbrush, childs small toy, tampon, anything. I
owned rental properties once( yes I know..what was I thinking) and this
woman had all kinds of things lodged in there...all of the above and
then some. Good Luck !

---MIKE--- wrote:
Is there a "Draino" type unclogger for toilets? My toilet seems to get
clogged frequently requiring a vigorous use of a plunger. What can I
use to help this situation (other than a snake)?


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')


Q-Tips are hard to detect.

--
Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

with toilet lying on old towels in the tub, run your snake down from
seat to wax, then connect an old towel and pull it back thru toward the
seat. hopefully it will bring back up that popsicle stick or plastic
spoon. for more fun you can look into mirrors, also you can dump
5-gallon buckets of water into sewer itself to be sure you don't have
an obstruction in the sewer pipe.
for parts see also:
www.fluidmaster.com


---MIKE--- wrote:
Is there a "Draino" type unclogger for toilets? My toilet seems to get
clogged frequently requiring a vigorous use of a plunger. What can I
use to help this situation (other than a snake)?


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

OR YOU JUST HAVE A POORLY MADE TOILET........
I have one of these. I snaked it, removed it and carefully checked
everything. The damn thing still needs to be plunged at least 5 times
a week. I have been meaning to replace it for a couple years, but its
one of those things you just put off and off, and you plunge and
plunge and cus.... One of these days I will find a sale on a good
toilet and probably do the job. Till then, I get lots of practice
using a plunger. It also helps to flush after doing your job, and
before you drop in any paper, and flush again after each additional
paper added to it. In the end, you use more water on these water
saving toilets..... Come to think of it, I'd like to find a good used
toilet from the 60's. Before they started forcing us to use these
annoying water saving things that never flush as well as the old ones.

Mark

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On 16 Dec 2006 18:05:59 -0800, "Teo2006" wrote:

You probably have an object in there that drano will not dislodge. It
may be better to remove the toilet and remove the
obstruction-----toothbrush, childs small toy, tampon, anything. I
owned rental properties once( yes I know..what was I thinking) and this
woman had all kinds of things lodged in there...all of the above and
then some. Good Luck !
---MIKE--- wrote:
Is there a "Draino" type unclogger for toilets? My toilet seems to get
clogged frequently requiring a vigorous use of a plunger. What can I
use to help this situation (other than a snake)?


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

I forgot to mention there is really nothing made such as draino for
toilets.

My toilet is the old style with a large tank. It has been in use for 16
years. I am the only person in the house and I am certain that NOTHING
has been flushed other than poops, **** and toilet paper- NOTHING! I
guess I will have to call a plumber with a snake.


---MIKE---
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire
(44° 15' N - Elevation 1580')

---MIKE--- wrote:
My toilet is the old style with a large tank. It has been in use for 16
years. I am the only person in the house and I am certain that NOTHING
has been flushed other than poops, **** and toilet paper- NOTHING! I
guess I will have to call a plumber with a snake.


---MIKE---


try flushing it with a bucket, if it flushes well i have your solution
its quick easy and cheap.

take a look at the rim holes in the bowl, are they clogged?

wrote in message
...
OR YOU JUST HAVE A POORLY MADE TOILET........
I have one of these. I snaked it, removed it and carefully checked
everything. The damn thing still needs to be plunged at least 5 times
a week. I have been meaning to replace it for a couple years, but its
one of those things you just put off and off, and you plunge and
plunge and cus.... One of these days I will find a sale on a good
toilet and probably do the job. Till then, I get lots of practice
using a plunger. It also helps to flush after doing your job, and
before you drop in any paper, and flush again after each additional
paper added to it. In the end, you use more water on these water
saving toilets..... Come to think of it, I'd like to find a good used
toilet from the 60's. Before they started forcing us to use these
annoying water saving things that never flush as well as the old ones.


I've got one sitting here in Seattle you can have.

Bob

If the water mostly swirls around, and doesnt go down with a UMPH, for
laCK OF A BETTER DESCRIPTION its very likely the interior passages and
rim holes are clogged espically if your in a hard water area.

Easily solved in 15 minutes

In article .com,
" wrote:

If the water mostly swirls around, and doesnt go down with a UMPH, for
laCK OF A BETTER DESCRIPTION its very likely the interior passages and
rim holes are clogged espically if your in a hard water area.

Easily solved in 15 minutes

How?

--
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH

Larry Weil wrote:
" wrote:

If the water mostly swirls around, and doesnt go down with a UMPH, for
laCK OF A BETTER DESCRIPTION its very likely the interior passages and
rim holes are clogged espically if your in a hard water area.

Easily solved in 15 minutes

How?

I wanted to know that, too. Guess you have to remove the toilet and soak
it in 35 gallons of Lime-Away.

--
Asking Iran and Syria to help us succeed in Iraq is like your local fire
department asking a couple of arsonists to help put out the fire.
-- Joe Lieberman

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:16:38 -0600, clifto wrote:

Larry Weil wrote:
" wrote:

If the water mostly swirls around, and doesnt go down with a UMPH, for
laCK OF A BETTER DESCRIPTION its very likely the interior passages and
rim holes are clogged espically if your in a hard water area.

Easily solved in 15 minutes

How?

I wanted to know that, too. Guess you have to remove the toilet and soak
it in 35 gallons of Lime-Away.

Research here. He does have one solution.

--
Oren

"Well, it doesn't happen all the time, but when it happens, it happens constantly."

"clifto" wrote in message
...
Larry Weil wrote:
" wrote:

If the water mostly swirls around, and doesnt go down with a UMPH, for
laCK OF A BETTER DESCRIPTION its very likely the interior passages and
rim holes are clogged espically if your in a hard water area.

Easily solved in 15 minutes

How?

I wanted to know that, too. Guess you have to remove the toilet and soak
it in 35 gallons of Lime-Away.

How about putting a pond pump in the toilet bowl, pumping
into the tank outlet hole?

Bob

In article ,
wrote:
OR YOU JUST HAVE A POORLY MADE TOILET........
I have one of these. I snaked it, removed it and carefully checked
everything. The damn thing still needs to be plunged at least 5 times
a week. I have been meaning to replace it for a couple years, but its
one of those things you just put off and off, and you plunge and
plunge and cus....


My trick is to keep an empty coffee-can nearby; when it looks
like things might clog, I dump a coffee-can full of water "down"
the back side of the bowl about .5 seconds before I hit the flush;
blasts the "things" up into the bowl-water so that, with any luck
at all, "they" go down one at a time, rather than meeting and
jamming up the "hole".

Works for me -- I haven't had to use my HD "mother of all
plungers" (the orange one with accordian-like bellows)
hardly at all.


Give it a try!

David

In article . com,
wrote:

take a look at the rim holes in the bowl, are they clogged?


For sure!

Plumber was over here doing something, and I asked him
to have a look at the toilet.

He said "get me a wire coat-hanger" -- I did, and he
cut it and bent a 3 or so inch piece so that it had
a one-inch (or so) piece of it at a right angle, and
then used it to poke into those rim-holes and wiggle
it around, etc, and then when he flushed it, all
this horrible black stuff (mold?) came out.

Flushed a lot better after that!


David