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This is a byproduct of thyme4change's thread, but we are talking toilets and not sinks that husbands have put grease down.
We replaced both our toilets last year with low-flush ones. DH immediately clogged the first one we put in, and I told the plumber we needed one with the regular flushing force. He said they don't make those anymore. The house was built in 1980 so 35 years ago. I can believe that. When the other toilet started running constantly, we replaced it as well.
TMI, but I guess DH's problems with constipation after several surgeries helped the toilets from clogging over the last several months. However, he was miserable so I suggested he get more fiber. He tried to do it with diet, but that only helped a little. So then he started taking Benefiber. That helped a lot.
But he now clogs the toilet again. Last week we spent $125 unclogging the hall one that our company will be using for Thanksgiving. They used the power thing Thyme talked about. I've never had any trouble with the bedroom one so I suggested he use that from now on. He promptly clogged it. I am trying everything to unclog it. We don't really have a toilet snake (only a sink one) so I guess we will buy one tomorrow.
The plumber told us last year that it has to do with the angle of the pipes and that we may have to replace all the plumbing if we can't make it work. He gave us some tips, though, like flushing the toilet paper afterwards, etc.
Replacing the plumbing sounds like $$$ we don't have. But you can't have plumbing that doesn't work.
Has anyone else been in this situation and have suggestions that might help?
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Post by gooddecisions on Nov 20, 2015 21:04:51 GMT -5
I don't understand the meme either.
This probably doesn't help, but our toilets were getting clogged all the time in our 1998 house. We purchased it in 2013 and replaced all the toilets in 2014. No more issues with clogging. Since you replaced all your toilets, I guess it's not going to be so simple. Do you have vents on your roof for them? Have you inspected the vent pipes on the roof recently?
Sorry, guess you have a different sense of humor than my wife because she saw it as a great idea for me in a similar situation. Want me to delete it?
I don't care either way. I just don't see what a girl flashing her boobs has to do with a clogged toilet.
What? I posted a guy sitting in a port-a-potty costume. I certainly want to delete it if you see what you are saying.
EDIT: WOW. That is so weird. I pulled out my tablet, went to the board without logging in and saw what you are seeing. I am still seeing the man in the port-a-potty costume on my desktop. I don't know. I deleted my posting. Would appreciate you doing away with the picture in your posting.
I actually had some luck on the internet. It was suggesting using a little Dawn dishwashing soap followed by hot water. Actually, at first i found a suggestion for boiling water. That sounded like it had potential for cracking the toilet. But I did find another that suggested really hot tap water.
It worked. It doesn't solve the problem, but I don't have to spend $100+ unclogging the toilet on Monday.
We so need to get rid of this house. Everything that we do that is an "improvement" turns out to be a bigger problem. I told DH not to talk to me about replacing doors or windows. They would end up not fitting.
Post by TheOtherMe on Nov 20, 2015 21:54:41 GMT -5
I have had that problem. This house was brand new and I was having to call a plumber every other month or so to unclog the toilet. My solution, at the plumber's suggestion, was to install a high rise, elongated toilet as the way my plumbing was configured, it was always going to be a problem. That and flush often and I haven't had to call a plumber since he installed the toilet.
I don't care either way. I just don't see what a girl flashing her boobs has to do with a clogged toilet.
What? I posted a guy sitting in a port-a-potty costume. I certainly want to delete it if you see what you are saying.
EDIT: WOW. That is so weird. I pulled out my tablet, went to the board without logging in and saw what you are seeing. I am still seeing the man in the port-a-potty costume on my desktop. I don't know. I deleted my posting. Would appreciate you doing away with the picture in your posting.
I don't care either way. I just don't see what a girl flashing her boobs has to do with a clogged toilet.
What? I posted a guy sitting in a port-a-potty costume. I certainly want to delete it if you see what you are saying.
EDIT: WOW. That is so weird. I pulled out my tablet, went to the board without logging in and saw what you are seeing. I am still seeing the man in the port-a-potty costume on my desktop. I don't know. I deleted my posting. Would appreciate you doing away with the picture in your posting.
I don't care either way. I just don't see what a girl flashing her boobs has to do with a clogged toilet.
What? I posted a guy sitting in a port-a-potty costume. I certainly want to delete it if you see what you are saying.
EDIT: WOW. That is so weird. I pulled out my tablet, went to the board without logging in and saw what you are seeing. I am still seeing the man in the port-a-potty costume on my desktop. I don't know. I deleted my posting. Would appreciate you doing away with the picture in your posting.
I don't know for certain what's going on. The most likely culprit is a drifting link. This happens when, for example, billisonboard links to an image at somesite.com/goofy_image.jpg, which appears on his browser as a man dressed as a port-a-potty. However, somesite.com/goofy_image.jpg may in fact be a script on the server designed to "look" like an image (by returning JPEG image data) but that returns different data depending on, e.g., the time of day or the most popular goofy image of the day. Since billis has the port-a-potty version of the image cached on his browser, this is what he'll always see until the cached image is invalidated. Other posters meanwhile see different images, which their browsers will cache and continue to show them thereafter.
Drifting links aren't uncommon, especially when linking to images found by Google images, etc. Many sites do it deliberately to prevent people from linking to their image content and eating up their bandwidth, although typically the image they serve up is some variety of "This image is no longer available at..."
When possible, look for "permanent link" or "permalink" options with images, which means the host guarantees the link won't change (over a decent timeframe). Avoid image URLs that have a ? anywhere in them, since this almost always means the resource being linked to is a script rather than a static image.
Alternatively, copy the image into an image hosting site like imgur, which will create a permanent link for it, and then use the imgur image link.
This is a well-timed post. I've got the same issue with the toilets in our house. I eat tons of fiber but probably don't drink enough water, and I've been wondering if more high-power toilets were available. Don't they make ones that blow in a puff of condensed air to get things moving?
I have a couple of family members that are guaranteed to clog the toilet every single time they come over. I mean every single time. Both of them are pretty overweight, and I can only guess that the amount they are expelling is just proportionally bigger than everyone else because they eat more. I suggest having him flush in the middle, and check on how much toilet paper he is using. If it is more than normal have him flush that separately afterward.
And this is going to sound gross, but I've heard of men "saving up" because they like the way a big poop feels. Maybe your DH needs to be going more often.
I suggest having him flush in the middle, and check on how much toilet paper he is using. If it is more than normal have him flush that separately afterward.
I know this is all TMI, but as I said, it's highly relevant. If it all comes out in one piece flushing in the middle won't do any good! And, while being overweight might make you more likely to clog the toilet, I'm normal weight. (And having to flush twice kind of defeats the water-saving aspect of the newer toilets.)
As I said earlier, I know that some low-flush toilets use a burst of air to speed the flush. You'd think they could make a high-power version. Based on the comments I'm reading here there would be a market for it.
I suggest having him flush in the middle, and check on how much toilet paper he is using. If it is more than normal have him flush that separately afterward.
I know this is all TMI, but as I said, it's highly relevant. If it all comes out in one piece flushing in the middle won't do any good! And, while being overweight might make you more likely to clog the toilet, I'm normal weight. (And having to flush twice kind of defeats the water-saving aspect of the newer toilets.)
As I said earlier, I know that some low-flush toilets use a burst of air to speed the flush. You'd think they could make a high-power version. Based on the comments I'm reading here there would be a market for it.
My DH is severely underweight at 145 pounds and over six feet tall. He looks like a walking toothpick. So that's not it.
I agree that it totally defeats the purpose of these toilets.
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Two flushes probably does not defeat the purpose, since the most flushes are for liquids plus paper, and those are single, not double.
Those who regularly clog up the loos should try to flush once before and once after paper.
And check the venting of the plumbing. If there is a bird nest or some other reason to it being clogged, there will likely be an increased pressure resistance when flushing, meaning less efficiency.
Post by shopaholic814 on Nov 21, 2015 11:23:40 GMT -5
My 12yo DS constantly plugs all toilets, especially ours. We live in a 1953 single bathroom home. I have gotten good at plunging our toilet when DH isn't home. There have been several times I have not been able to get it un-plugged. There are a couple issues, one is with the jacked-up plumbing in the house, the pipes under the toilet are at too sharp of an angle, like a post earlier stated. My DH will be able to do the remodel himself, but we only have one bathroom, which makes the situation difficult b/c he isn't quick with his work. The second issue we have, is my DS has always had issues with not knowing when he needs to 'go' and holding onto his BM's too long. Potty-training him as a toddler was a literal nightmare. My DS has to flush multiple times during his visits, and so does my DH for sheer volume & toilet plugging prevention due to the way the toilet piping was incorrectly installed.
Post by copperboxes on Nov 21, 2015 11:58:27 GMT -5
Well, just scattering gunning some thoughts:
For toilet clogs, TP shape seems to make a big difference from what I can tell. Folded squares seem to go down drains way way way easier than crumpled bunches. Not sure if that's a factor for you guys.
Are you okay with fiddling with the water tank in the back? It's all clean freshwater in there. If you are:
Increasing the height of the water being stored in the tank can be useful. It increases water pressure at the bottom of the tank for when the flapper opens. With more pressure, water comes into the bowl harder, faster and straighter, more blast action, less whirl action. I think depending on the toilet design it's possible to overdo it and risk some splash in the bowl from water jetting in and hitting TP though, like some high pressure public toilets, so fiddling with water height might be in order. One of our toilets can power up to a "holy moly, tone it back" flush, another will never get anything besides "meh" at top end. Just designs and bowl inflow angles from what I can tell.
Pouring water from a bucket into the toilet bowl, like you did with the hot water, can also be pretty darn powerful. I've never done it with hot water, the weight/power of falling cold water alone in the right spot can be pretty intense. As long as I can remember, my parents gathered cold water into a bucket while waiting for hot water to reach the bathroom. It got set aside, then poured from the bucket into the toilet bowl to save on a flush. Just a water conservation thing, and the way we flushed when the power went out periodically from trees falling on electrical lines in storms. Water poured from a certain height can have a super powerful flushing action though, it's basically a concentrated water smash and flow, lots of concentrated volume and force compared to small jet flows around the bowl edge. Hose type blast vs. hose type shower action, more or less.
Don't know if any of this helped, but good luck, I hope things don't have to go the $$$ route.
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Has anyone else been in this situation and have suggestions that might help?
I can easily clog toilets if I don't flush 2-3 times. (Sorry for being so explicit, but it's the truth. )
Your hubby is going to have to get in the habit of flushing while he goes. The good news is that every once in a while during "intermediate" flushes, the final surge of water into the toilet splashes up and gives one a refreshing bum rinse. It's like a free bidet.
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Post by thyme4change on Nov 23, 2015 8:44:57 GMT -5
When you bought the new toilets - were they good toilets or a more economical brand? There is a wide variety in the quality of toilets out there. Not all "low-flush" toilets are created equal.
I replaced my toilets in my 1960's house with $800 Toto dual flush toilets, and haven't had a problem since. My husband was a "double-flusher" on our old toilets. It was never a full fledged clog, but every twosie took at least 2 flushes - often with a waiting period in between to let the water soften the waste.
I replaced my toilets in my 1960's house with $800 Toto dual flush toilets, and haven't had a problem since. My husband was a "double-flusher" on our old toilets. It was never a full fledged clog, but every twosie took at least 2 flushes - often with a waiting period in between to let the water soften the waste.
I'm wondering if that might help us. Our house was built in 1995 and most of the finishes/built-ins are middle-of-the road. Fine with us, but we may need at least one higher-quality toilet. Ours are double-flusher but evidently not powerful enough.
ETA: just did a search on Toto toilets. I think we need this one.
It includes a "cyclone flushing system" which can be operated by remote control, a heated seat, built-in bidet function (with warm water) and room deodorizer and it's on sale for $5,746.40.
Excuse me while I set up a GoFundMe site.
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