Weird toilet problem

[Sandwich]

This thread should get published! It tells a story that makes you belly laugh and then cry at the same time!

[street1]

This thread should get published! It tells a story that makes you belly laugh and then cry at the same time!

I didn't know how to explain the feelings.You did a great job.

[RejectionMan]

damn a month with out that clown and now one told me! I would have been back sooner! (his posts and superiority complex have always pissed me off).

On topic:

its a solid plug, likly the bread....

chances are its in 1 of 3 places: trap in bowl, stand pipe (vent), or in the elbow from the crapetoreum to the stand pipe. If the rest of the house was affected I would say city junction. If basement or other toiles on same stand pipe then its the vent or the stand pipe.

Based on description what ever's in there can be forced out of the way but then closes after the waste goes by (like a butterfly valve (-) open (*) closed).

Step one:
get off your *** and remove the crapper. (buy a new wax gaskit and closit bolts (always replace bolts when you remove the crapper, it will save you later). Never remove the tank from the craper, 90% of the time you will never get it to seal to the bowl again (and it will always start to leak when your not home)

Turn assemblage upside down (out doors, or in bath tub) to drain water etc. (not to self ensure that tub has removable trap just in case, correct if nessisary, this was one of my mistakes...pluged shower after crapper fixed, garvity is working against you...)

Inspect darined assempage, if the assembalage stinks by itself then something is living in there. 2 locations, the trap, and the connection from tank to bowl. Use flash light to insepect tank/bowl connection. Im not sure how on mine but there was signficant "groth" inthis area stinking up high heaven and making it not work, baicaly imposible to clear due to reseal problem and where it drains to (openings only get smaller after that point). Attempt to inspect the trap... typicaly if something rattles its in there, cause children. reach in and feel around for obstuctions.. rubber balls, yoyo's, pens, pencils etc. raotate assembalage frequently as if its a rubber ball it will float, may escape inspection but roll out during rotation. Took 3 attempts to locate this one.

Step 2
Typicaly the waste pipe wont stink to bad as its all darined away to the city line by then, and your vent stack has exhasueted it all. Make sure your exhasut fan is off! as this will place negative pressire in the loo drawing in sewer gasses. If this dose stink your blockage is likly in the vent stack and can only be accessed from roof.

This is a good oprotunity to snake the waste line, resistance to snake = bad, it should just lide in and go round and round.

Step 3

call a pro

Gotchya's:

if you hear anything crak during the tank/bowl replacement, just get a new one.. a risked leak is not worth it.

never reuse closit bolts, or wax seals.

use only wax seals, poly liner ok, but no rubber or poly only seals.

do not use any kind of forceing product to clear a cast iron stack it will break, once its broken you replace all of it. Use instant plumber, or forced air/water only on new ABS installations.

[RejectionMan]

You misunderstand clauded. Clickhere has a very long history of crowing about how much money he earns, but he has told us stories of the amount of stuff he has bought, used and then returned - sometimes after he has damaged an item. In another thread he wanted to return an old printer in the box of a new one of the same model. The fact that he expected free help with his toilet was just too much.

He wasn't banned for talking about toilets, he was banned for calling me names... which is what he always does when he has realised he has shown his true colours once again.

that and how hes so cheap he gets free tech support from us on craplications hes sells to his clients.