Late one Christmas Eve I discovered a toilet blockage. Forced to improvise, I screwed the rubber backing pad for my sanding disk onto the end of a broomstick. A few vigorous pumps later, all was well.
Chris
"Merry" Xmas
Dec 24, 2011
34 Replies
*applause*
I have - twice - successfully used the toilet brush with a plastic bag wrapped around it. It's not great, but it usually generates enough motion to shift the blockage...
Good idea
There's also the method I often use - which is 's*it-or-bust' in more than one sense. Get a full bucket of water, stand as high as you can (e.g. on a chair) and dump the entire bucket really fast into the pan.
Works really well.
Other methods that have sometimes got me out of trouble:
1) Wire coat hanger, undone and poked around the bend.2) Half a bottle of bleach and leave for a few hours - sometimes causes enough breakdown of blockage for it to let go.
+1 here - with added Fairy Liquid down the pan to make the water whoosh a bit faster and to lubricate the blockage on its way around the corners.
Nick
Ooh, err!
Surely a squirt or two of K-Y?
Half a can of WD40?
Why didn't you buy a plunger after the *first* time :-)
It's far more effective if you use a bucket of mercury.
Bill
No, it's not a lubricant (ducks).
But useful for loosening scale.
a) you'd never be able to lift it
b) you'd bust the pan
Eat more porridge and such blockages shouldn't occur.
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