Toilet backed up - with protein powder

Shove the head of the perpetrator into the toilet and flush it. That should teach him/her/it to not do that again. ^_^

TDD

snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote in news:c33d443e-3d4b-407f-9302-e909ac4168e9 @k14g2000vbe.googlegroups.com:

Proteins should dissolve/degrade with lye. Use any Drano-type drain cleaner.

(Your choice, with or without the head of the idiot).

shut the water to the toilet. flush to empty. fill toilet with vinegar (maybe put some baking soda first. you can buy two gallons of vinegar at costco for under $4.) flush

Right.

Buy another container of the powder and experiment with various noxious substances, vinegar and lye are already mentioned, but you might also try Muriatic acid.

You can even call the manufacturer of the substance and ask their advice.

I wonder if it would help to run a garden hose from the shower or other source of hot water. Run a bunch of hot water down the toilet drain. Would that loosen the protein powder?

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The protein powder has clotted into a lump that must be stuck somewhere in the pipe, you may need to remove the toilet and use a bigger snake to break up the lump and clear the pipe, unless you can determine what will dissolve protein.

Flush a Waring Blendor, and then the sewer rats can bulk up, start pumping iron, and replace our elected officials?

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Buy another container of the powder and experiment with various noxious substances, vinegar and lye are already mentioned, but you might also try Muriatic acid.

You can even call the manufacturer of the substance and ask their advice.

try very hot water, that can open many clogged toilets

Isn't that what happened in '08?

"HeyBub" wrote in news:CMqdnUpInawNX_LSnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

In 1967 or '68 I was less than careful, and got a very small droplet of a glassware cleaning solution (dichromate in conc H2SO4) in my eye. It hurt like crazy for a few hours, but I was just fine the next day. At the eye clinic in the hospital they told me I was lucky it was acid, not lye, because lye just keeps on eating away dissolving tissue, while acid denatures the proteins and makes a protected covering, more or less. I'll never forget that lesson.

Now why do you think Drano etc is practically pure lye? Indeed, to dissolve hair and grease by eating away and dissolving protein (=hair) and fats. Of course heat helps by liquifying grease and by increasing chemical reactions (generally an increase of ~3-fold for every 10°C, 18°F).

Bob,

Very hot water in a cold toilet may crack it.

Dave M.

i assume the toilet is indoors in a conditioned space, so say 65 degrees

the hot water from a water heater at 120 degrees, and it gets mixed with the room temperature water already in the bowl. which minimizes thermal shock

Hot into a cold bowl will cause what the hot hits to expand against the colder areas, ceramic survies compression very well.

Cold into a HOT bowl will cause the area the cold hits to contract, ceramic does not survive tension, result is a crack.

Thus, the premise that Hot onto Cold is NOT wise, but no where near as damaging as Cold onto Hot.

Similar experiment, take a glass pitcher out of the freeze and pour hot water into it versus take a glass pitcher while very hot out of the dish washer and drop an ice cube into it. The ice cube will probably pop the bottom out of your pitcher.

If your toilet backed up, you have been drinking too much. Get yourself sober before using the toilet again!!!!

I heard of one guy who had the same problem. He was drunk. Everytime he would try to sit on the toilet, the toilet would backup. The poor guy kept landing on his ass on the floor, because the damn toilet would backup everytime he was sitting down. Once he got sober, he took chains and chained the toilet to his refrigerator to prevent the toilet from backingup. This worked well, and not only that, but he could get off the toilet and follow the chain to the refrigerator to get another beer.