Toilet clogged, augered it, still clogged, removed toilet and still ...
2010年6月21日 · Turn the toilet upside down and shine a flashlight up into the toilet. With most of them you can see almost up to the top of the trap. If nothing there, then use a mirror and flashlight to look up inside from the bowl. There is a big difference between using a closet auger in a toilet, and using a closet auger "correctly".
Toilet clogged - snake won't go down all the way
2020年12月24日 · Could be that your toilet feeds into some fitting that does not have a soft curve. That was fairly common in the past. So is the problem the drain line, or the toilet. Probably toilet. What you can do is to get a 5 gallon or bigger container. Fill it pretty full. Then pour the water into the toilet from as high as you can as fast as you dare.
help with plunger for kohler - Love Plumbing & Remodel
Oct 14, 2008. #2. "Put the plunger in with water in bowl, and after a series of short, quick strokes, pull up slightly until everything sucks down. Usually people do big strokes up and down. Using that method, some blockages won't move." Terry Love. The Kohler trapway is not as good as some. I don't like the tight bend at the outlet.
Badly Plugged Toilet - Love Plumbing & Remodel
2017年9月9日 · I sometimes pull the toilet, and auger from the outlet. I try to push out what dropped in to plug it. Sometimes a find a shampoo bottle, or a small toy. I don't know of anything that will dissolve plastic bottles in a trapway. Sometimes I wind up replacing the bowl. Chemicals aren't going to do anything that an auger can't do.
Can't get toilet to drain!! - Love Plumbing & Remodel
Aug 30, 2021. #1. I have a toilet that will not drain. I have a GOOD plunger, I can get everything to eventually work through but still flushes slowly and will not go without lots of plunger work. I tried a specific toilet auger and it just loops back around into the bowl. I used a smaller drain snake for my drill, and same thing.
Wonky toilet issue. 3rd and 2nd floor clogging and slow flushing
2019年2月14日 · I have had the main line (from the basement connection) cleared a month ago. I have used a toilet auger on the 3rd and 2nd-floor toilets about a month ago when they were both experiencing issues with backing up. I did have to fight a bit to get the auger thru on one of the toilets, but i was also using a bit of a cheap auger...
Clogging Gerber Toilets - Love Plumbing & Remodel
Shelbyville, Indiana. Mar 14, 2010. #1. Hello - first post here. My house was built in 2004, we bought it in 2007. It has three bathrooms with similar Gerber toilets. All three clog frequently. I looked for a model number, and only saw Gerber on the inside of the tank. The date on the inside of the tank is '04.
Help, roller stuck in toilet... What to do.. - Love Plumbing & Remodel
2006年2月23日 · A toilet auger might get it out, or you might have to pull the toilet off of the floor and try to push it back out from the bottom. Those things can be a pain as with the spring in them, they can expand and not want to come back out...it is a pain to get it just so so you can compress it so it will fit back out.
Getting #*$% drain auger past 90. - Love Plumbing & Remodel
2010年10月19日 · So I went out and bought a 50' 1/2" snake. It is a manual one -- didn't even come in a drum. It should reach the clog easily. But I can't get the #*$% thing more than about 6' in. I am pretty sure that the 1/2" snake is won't go around the 90 degree turn. The smaller snake made the turn with no problems at all.
Toilet isn't flushing well. Bowl fills too much, (& BUBBLES), then ...
2009年5月18日 · An auger is best at removing trapped items, but it does what the name implies...drills through things. A plumber might have to remove the toilet and use a snake on it. That would have a head on it that would actually clean the pipe - the head is large enough in diameter to essentially bore through and chop out whatever may be there.