Dental floss toilet beast (must see)

Auger you!

YYYYUUUUKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!

How long had you been in the house??? How many years had the beast been building up?

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:01:21 -0800 (PST), harry wrote Re Re: Dental floss toilet beast (must see):

That's what it looks like to me too.

It will be leaking someplace now.

Sewer stack joints used to get packed with oakum, (either tarred hemp or bentonite soaked hemp.) Then filled with melted lead. I don't see how he could pull the oakum out unless it was a really badly done joint. Doubt it will cause a leak unless the lead bead is broken and he gets a backup.

--Vic

Well, Sherlock ya ain't.

Every single bell and hub joint in a three bathroom house would have to have been pulled out to create that amount of fibrous material, and it wouldn't have all collected at the one basement toilet flange.

I agree. If that is what it was, it would have had to be put there through the toilet itself.

Harry K

I'm hoping that's NOT how you got it out!

How long have you been it the house? (Is this from previous owners?)

Alas, the beast be 13 years (or more) old. Plunged at it during many an encounter to no avail. I now breathe a sigh of relief knowing that it's finally slain.

No mop heads, just at least 13 years of dental floss. The green floss seemed to be the most resilient, hadn't used that in years but the relatively few strands of that had retained their color well and were one hell to cut.

Someone used one hell of a lot of dental floss. And musta flushed that toilet many thousands of time for that much to build up. Talk about a hoarder.

Steve

Something else to bear in mind is the nature of the pipe involved. Here we're talking iron with bumps, lumps and protrusions, just waiting to snag strands of floss, as opposed to smooth as a baby's bottom PVC;

Something else to bear in mind is the nature of the pipe involved. Here we're talking iron with bumps, lumps and protrusions, just waiting to snag strands of floss, as opposed to smooth as a baby's bottom PVC;

Steve

Nay, 'twas not I.

Depends on the length of floss on a roll. The rolls I use have 200 yards of floss on them. Estimated usage over 13 years is 2.7 miles or approximately 24 rolls. About 2/3 of that were flushed.

That would screw me good. I have a "lift" system. All house water gets pumped out. Shortly after I spent $2100 for a plumber to replace the 50 year-old pump, it started vibrating. Plumber had to pull the pump out. $290. Believe me, this plumber was a bargain. He found a pair of shredded womans panties wrapped in the impeller. I figure a guest s*it her pants and flushed them down. I almost feel like putting a sign opposite the commode. Just haven't settled on the wording.

--Vic

Looks like it can screw an entire city too;

Look at the bright side. You now have a lifetime supply of recycled dental floss. ;-)

"If it didn't come out of your colon don't be putting it in the bowl-in."

P in the basin? And what about toilet paper? That would be one confusing sign IMO.