Toilet

[philo]

Many years ago I used a plunger to plunge the hell out of a clog and did so but ended up breaking the seal so I am reluctant to do over-do it.

Just recently I used a snake but that got my wife upset because it left marks on the porcelain (which did finally come out with cleanser).

I just saw on-line a high pressure device to force through a clog. Since it's all forward pressure, I was wondering if this is safer and if it really works.

Anyone know for sure?

Otherwise I was thinking about making a sleeve for my snake out of a piece of garden hose .

[hubops]

WTF is going into your toilet ? !

My neighbour had guests < who should have known better >

flush a disposable diaper .. duh. ! It did somehow get plungered past the toilet but eventually clogged the septic line at the tank. I wonder if your clog is beyond the toilet ? .. that might better explain damaging the seal from extreme plungering .. Also might point to snaking rather than the air-blaster ..? .. unless the air blaster is on a long hose that reaches a more distant clog beyond the toilet ? John T.

[Marilyn Manson]

Pull the toilet, snake the pipe, replace the toilet. When the kids were kids, I always kept a spare seal in the shop. Pulling and replacing the toilet doesn't take very long at all. AMHIKT

For all the work your doing, that might be the easiest route and you can use something bigger and longer than a toilet auger.

[philo]

I demonstrated to my wife that a feminine product was flushable.

I never said my IQ was above 60 did I ?

[philo]

Working fine now...just looking to the future.

Think I will stay with the snake I have. It worked without a hassle.

A lot faster and easier than pulling the whole toilet.

[Marilyn Manson]

"that got my wife upset because it left marks on the porcelain (which did finally come out with cleanser)."

OK...gotcha.

[Dean Hoffman]

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006) From:

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Thread reminds me of women in the park putting disposable diapers in a port-a-potty there. Even only human waste and toilet paper belong in there or toilet.

Decades ago our lab was use testing a flush-able, disposable diaper and my wife tried them with our baby son. First one clogged the toilet.

[philo]

Yep, my 2nd name: Spectacular Error Philo

[philo]

At least I cleaned it

[philo]

LOL

I still recall back before disposables, my mom holding my sister's wet diaper out the window of our moving car.

Wind took it and it went splat against the windshield of the car behind us!

As frugal as my dad was, he did not stop and try to retrieve it.

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Old joke my Dad used to tell about train from Wilmington to Philadelphia. Conductor was asleep near open window when a woman up front emptied kid's diaper out the window. It hit him, he jumped up and yelled, "All out for Marcus Hook."

[micky]

Don't they have plastic built-in covers?

[philo]

Found out there is such a thing as a toilet auger.

It's got a protective sleeve and is a bit larger than the sink drain auger I have.

I had two sink drain augers and a friend had two toilet augers ,so now we both have one of each.