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Clogged toilet
I am on the verge also of trying to take atoilet apart. My son flushed my plastic contaner of deodorant down the toilet. When I flush the toilet it still gurgles and filles up a lot so I know the item is still stuck. I was told it is probably too big for me to use an auger. SO my best bet would be to take the tank apart. Do I need any special tools to do this?
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Jimminey Crickets... a Plastic container of deodorant? If you aren't competent with tools you need to hire a plumber. The deodorant isn't in the tank, it's in the base of the toilet. Imagine an S on the side of your toilet starting at the floor and ending at the outlet of your bowl. Your container is probably somewhere in there. The thing is, if you just knock it out, you will probalby make worse problems for yourself later. Drain the tank, remove the supply lines, remove the two toggle bolts holding the bowl to the floor lift it up and away. If you are not strong, you will probably need to take the tank off if it has one. Tip the toilet over and NOW you can try and get the can out. A plumber can do this in less than an hour, you will take 4 hours and two trips to the hardware store and it might leak. Oh yeah, it would be a good idea to replace the beeswax seal on the floor at the same time.
Good luck. Really. |
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Before you go to the hassle of pulling the toilet try to break it up and send it through or auger into it and pull it back to do this you will need a closet auger,(see image). There should be directions with the closet, which may be purchased at most hardware stores, but if you need more click on back. As for pulling the bowl yourselg and hooking it out from the bottom. Pulling a toilet bowl is a dirty messy job,( there's still a gallon of water left in the trap) best left to us dirty messy plumbers. Good luck, Tom
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Yes, when my older boys were young, we got that plastic toilet paper rod ( with the spring) in the toilet. It got into the S part and expanded.
Even taking the toilet out and apart I never could get that out, But yes follow speedballs suggestion, I wish he lived next door to me now |
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