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Use a balloon.
Apparently the toilet has suddenly become blocked. No one knows how it's happened. 11 o clock at night so can't pop to the shop and get a plunger.
Tried a wire and a pipe bender to no avail.
Grabbed a balloon out the car and blew it up just a a bit bigger than the toilet hole. Plunge away using the balloonoplunge 3000. Hey presto, toilets free.
Disclaimer. I can't guarantee this will work and that the balloon won't burst covering you and your bathroom in the contents of your toilet.
So any more stw life hacks? Or improvisations?
I’ve used a length of goodridge compressionless brake housing to successfully poke away a loo blockage before
An auger did the trick last time we had a blockage something like 5m from the house. Not nice, but perseverance - and trying other tools at the same time - eventually got us up and running.
Grabbed a balloon out the car
Watched a plumber lay an unfolded newspaper across an almost full to the brim pan. Waited for it to become sodden on the sheets touching the water before he pushed hard on it a couple of times in succession. Blockage disappeared and water flowed again.
Never had reason to try it myself since. Not hugely keen to either despite his success.
No toilet plunger, Put a mop in a bin bag and plunge away.
When the blockage is clear remove the bin bag whilst turning it inside out, catching any nasties in the bag and dispose of it.
sirromj - Member
Grabbed a balloon out the car
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Life 'hack' = boiled piss.
It's called using your noggin.
Mini rant over.
Does nobody else want to know why he has a ready supply of balloons in his car?
Nope :-\
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Ok, I'll go.
Separating an egg. Crack it into a bowl, get a plastic pop bottle, squeeze it, put the neck on the yolk and let go. One separated egg.
I love life hacks and this is my fav. If you want to separate a single piece of paper into two smaller sheets, lay the paper down on a flat surface. Take a pair of scissors and start at one edge. Gently squeeze the scissor handles together and move the scissors across the paper. Bingo two pieces of paper when once there was one. Don't all thank me at once.
Crack it into a bowl
Is this on top of the blockage, or on the unfolded newspaper for hygiene reasons??
Aye, clingfilm wrapped round the porcelain to effect a good seal and press down on it (gently) until the blockage dislodges. You'll see once you try this you get a bit of a resonance going to shift the offending turds. Check your neighbor isn't doing this at the same time before you start 😯
I'm afraid the reason for the balloons in the car is quite depressing. We bought a big bag of balloons for a child loss wave of light rememberance service and they've been in the car for months now
Ok, I'll go.Separating an egg. Crack it into a bowl, get a plastic pop bottle, squeeze it, put the neck on the yolk and let go. One separated egg.
Are you trying to advise using this method for separating said Blockage from the Pan bowl? 😯
Unblocking the toilet - 2l plastic bottle with the bottom cut off, better than any plunger!
Um, we did the clingfilm trick in a converted flat i lived in about 20 years ago in France.
When the blockage finally popped the guy on the ground floor got almost the entire back blast.
A couple of hundred litres of sewage from the second and third floors.
(A family on the first floor had been putting nappies, food waste and all sorts of rubbish down the pipes.........)
Must have been horrific, the top two floors had about a dozen cyclists living in three shared flats........
Cougar - Moderator
Ok, I'll go.Separating an egg. Crack it into a bowl, [s]get a plastic pop bottle, squeeze it, put the neck on the yolk and let go.[/s] reach into bowl and gently pick up yolk, place into whatever you need egg yolk for. One separated egg.
[i]Must have been horrific[/i]
When I was in Bristol a landlord had to get Dynarod in for a blocked loo.
He must have got the pressure wrong because my friend said the inside of the bathroom was almost entirely pebble dashed when the Dynarod bloke staggered out covered in poo, tissue and sanitary towels.
I find that a full bucket of water poured into the pan from shoulder height does the same trick by momentum.
+1 for the cling film.
Spread it over the top of the pan (use plenty to get a good seal). Press on it repeatedly and the blockage will clear.
timba - MemberIs this on top of the blockage, or on the unfolded newspaper for hygiene reasons??
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RustyNissanPrairie - MemberLife 'hack' = boiled piss.
This x1000 👿
When the blockage finally popped the guy on the ground floor got almost the entire back blast.
A couple of hundred litres of sewage from the second and third floors
My office is in the basement floor of a large public building, quite close to the exit point of a large foul drain
We like to think of it as "the shower of shite" for exactly the above reason (without the clingfilm)
Life hacks - get in the sea.
what does that achieve - washing off the shite ?Life hacks - get in the sea
Cougar - Moderator - Block User - Quote
Ok, I'll go.Separating an egg. Crack it into a bowl, get a plastic pop bottle, squeeze it, put the neck on the yolk and let go. One separated egg.
Or, crack it and gently pour out the white from one half of the shell, then transfer the yolk to the other half whilst letting the remaining white flow out and get on with the rest of your life.
Have to try the cling film hint, boy number two could block a train tunnel.
Dropping calcium carbide (used in caving carbide lamps) used to be the standard operating procedure to clear the frequently blocking outside loo at a mendip caving hut. (Carbide reacts with water to generate acetylene gas, the gas would clear any blockage). Worked well until some poor soul wandered in with a lit cigerette in his mouth, and the build up of acetylene gas went boom 😆
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[i]Or, crack it and gently pour out the white from one half of the shell, then transfer the yolk to the other half whilst letting the remaining white flow out and get on with the rest of your life.[/i]
only 36p 😆