What to do if the toilet is clogged

Some may unknowingly drain food debris or fermented homemade food into the toilet. Sometimes rags get there, for example, when draining water from a bucket that was used to carry out wet cleaning in an apartment. After such tricks you have to decide what to do if the toilet is clogged? In this case, you can contact a professional plumber with experience or try to deal with the problem yourself.

For sanitary devices, periodic pollution is common. There are many reasons for this:

• too hard water;
• urea;
• sediment of other origin, which enters the pipe and eventually narrows the inner passage;
• owners carelessly related to plumbing.

Ways to clean the toilet

You can try to cope with the blockage with:

• mechanical method;
• a plunger;
• chemicals.

In sewer pipes, salt precipitate begins to form sooner or later, which means that in order not to deal with the complete coking of the system, prophylaxis should be periodically carried out (preferably 1 time in 3 months). For use at home, any suitable chemical product designed for cleaning pipes. You just need to pour the product into the plumbing fixture and do not use it for 6–8 hours.

If prophylactic cleaning of the sewage system is not carried out, then the sediment on the walls will gradually turn into a stone, which is very difficult to influence with something.

Ways to deal with simple blockage

If the reason for the blockage is only the toilet, then you can resort to using a special tool designed to clean this particular item of plumbing. The range and pricing of such tools are countless, but it is better to use a proven and safe tool that does not harm the surface of your plumbing equipment. Such a drug is effective only in the case of a weak blockage. Therefore, before clearing the blockage in the toilet, determine how badly the sewage pipe is clogged.

The next proven tool is a plunger — an instrument that has long been known to everyone, often used by plumbers. The design of the device is extremely simple: a handle equipped with a rubber hemisphere. Instead of a plunger, you can use an ordinary plastic bottle. This method is very effective and if a critical situation has occurred, then it should be tried.

In addition, you can get rid of the uncomplicated blockage with a bucket of boiling water. When draining water, you should try to ensure that the pressure is as strong as possible. Despite the fact that the method looks very simple, it helps to cope with the problem.

The method of cleaning the toilet bowl with boiling water in some cases leads to the appearance of cracks in the product. Therefore, you can conduct this technique at your own peril and risk.

Also, for washing the sewage system, you can use regular soda, which can be found in every kitchen. If a blockage appears, then at least half of the pack should be poured into the toilet. The contents of the sewage will react with active alkali and as a result, soda will relieve the toilet from clogging.

If you suspect that the cause of the blockage lies in the fat plug, you can try to remedy the situation as follows: warm the siphon with a hairdryer, and then work with a plunger or rinse the drain with hot water.

Professional methods of dealing with the blockage

When simple methods are not enough, you should proceed to the use of sanitary cable. This tool, equipped with a pointed tip or a helical process, for the manufacture of which was used thick wire, allows you to quickly cope with the blockage.

The procedure for working with sanitary cable:

• Lower the cable into the toilet as deep as possible.
• Rotating it, push it further, trying to clear the blockage. If a rag got into the pipe, then it is quite likely that it can be pulled out.

Prevention

In order not to look for ways to combat the blockage, it is important to monitor the state of the sewer pipes:

1. No foreign objects should fall into the toilet, and if an alien object still got there, then if possible, you need to remove it as soon as possible.
2. Never drain the rest of the food into the toilet, as this leads to an accumulation of fat, which can lead to a serious problem - a dense fat plug.
3. Do not have the habit of flushing construction waste into the toilet during repairs.
4. Use special prophylactic chemicals regularly.

If you apply the recommendations outlined in this article, then most likely you will not have to resort to using plumbing, which means that you can save your household budget.

Video

This video shows how to make a tool for cleaning sewer pipes from baking soda:

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