Toilet Bowl Flushing making loud noises

speedball1 · Mar 19, 2012, 02:08 PM

Greetings from Sarasota, Are there any bubbles after you flush? Do you have a closet auger,(see image)? What's the tank level? Can you lower it down a bit so there's not so much volume going into the bowl? Back to you, Tom

shirl51 · Mar 20, 2012, 05:26 AM

Thank you for getting back to me so fast. There are no bubbles after the flush and I do not have a closet auger (although I can pick up one at Home depot). Do you think there is a stoppage somewhere in the piping?? The tank level is full and will try to lower it tonight when I get home. I guess that means to try not to full the tank up so high?? I am trying to attach a video of the tank flushing the heavy breathing is my dog lying next to the toilet sorry.

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speedball1 · Mar 20, 2012, 06:00 AM

What's different about the sound it makes now compared to the sound it used to make? I asked about the toilet auger because it's better then a plunger. A toilet auger can auger into a solid clog and bringh it back where a plunger can't. Back to you, Tom

shirl51 · Mar 20, 2012, 08:28 AM

The sound before was more quieter like normal toilets. You flush water goes down and thats it. Now its like glug glug thru the pipes. I can definite hear a difference thru the walls.

shirl51 · Mar 20, 2012, 08:29 AM

I should probably say sounds like tornado going thru the walls. Much louder than normal.

speedball1 · Mar 20, 2012, 08:32 AM

Purchase a closet auger and auger the bowl. There may be something down there that's disturbing the flush. Let me know how you make out. good luck, Tom

shirl51 · Mar 21, 2012, 04:04 AM

Hi When I went home last night I was in this bathroom and my husband in the other one way down the hall. He had flushed the toilet and I heard the rumbling again in my bathroom behind the walls. So I am thinking its not the toilet at all. Any suggestions what it could be?

speedball1 · Mar 21, 2012, 06:20 AM

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Any suggestions what it could be?

This is just a guess. I suggested a closet auger because I thought there might be something in the bowl that disturbed the water as it drained past. Now I'm wondering if it isn't farther on down the line in your pipes. You could pull the closet toilet nearest to where you heard the "rumble" and send a sewer snake down the open toilet hole. My gut tells me there's something caught up down there. Let me know what you find. Good luck, Tom

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