I have a problem with 2 of the 3 toilets in my 6 yr old house. 2 of the toilets clog up way too frequently, and they have since the house was new. The third has never clogged. All are the same in all ways except location in the house. The plumber has moved away so I can’t ask him if the drain lines could be the cause. He was a licensed plumber and all inspections were done and signed off. We have no children living here, so no one is stuffing teddy bears down the drain. Any ideas?
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Use only the one that works.
Water level in the tank low.
Wax ring choking off the soil hole...
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
What is clogging up the toilets?
Is it happening at about the same time every month?
Who ever invented work didn't know how to fish....
We are too old for time of the month to be a factor. Do I need to put it delicately or spell it out, crap and TP must be whats doing it. I use the third (non-clogger) toilet for most deposits, so I was thinking maybe there wasn't enough fall on the drain lines for the other 2.
I have one (out of 3) that does that. Toto Augustas, 3 gal. water savers. We've found that holding the lever down can help in complete evacuation. Sometimes banking large deposits takes a couple of trys, we're saving water now aren't we? Glad we're on a well...from another brother who's full of it<G> EliphIno!
Yeah, here we have to buy the 1.6 gal models. I cut out the dam in the tank to double the flow. Seems to have helped some.
go to yard sale, flea market salavge yards and find a five gallon toliet.
Buy a jet commode. They're a little loud, but man are they fun to flush! KA-WHOOOSH!
We had a similar problem with the main toilet upstairs, so I got tired of the complaints and on one Christmas eve went to Home Desperate and bought a terlet I swear was manufactured by Pratt & Whitney; I mean this thing can knock em down.
Of course, once I pulled the old bowl, I found a ladies-sized bobby pin wedged straight across the middle of the pipe. You don't want to know what it was caked with. I installed the new super-whamadyne/jet propelled/more power-is-better john and there ain't been any clogs since.
But man is it loud.
Takes me back to the old days of watching flight ops on the flight deck of the USS Hancock, god rest her rusty buckets.
LOL- I've got a couple of those jet flushers and they scare the heck outta everyone that uses them not to mention that if the DW goes in the middle of the night the Jet wakes me up.View Image
I think your problem is the throat size of the toilet, the bigger the better.
I am going to change out those noisy jet flushers with some quiet rim flushers by Kohler.
Nobody should have to double flush...........View Image"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Bob
middle of the night the Jet wakes me up!
Well if you wouldn't snore I wouldn't have to make you roll over.
HA!Ham and Eggs are a days work for the chicken but a life long commitment for the pig
as long as we're on the subject- my all-time favorite euphemism for telling your wife you're headed for the bathroom to go #2?
"i'll be back in a minute honey- i gotta go drop the kids off at the pool."
m
"2 of the toilets clog up way too frequently"
And they get unplugged how?? Just needs a plunger to take care of it??
If so, then I agree with NickNuke'em. Pull the toilets and see what's sitting there spanning the drain. A plastic q-tip will do it. Plastic tampon applicators. Any number of things.
If there's nothing sitting there in plain site, reach up into the toilet. I once found a pair of sunglasses that way.
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
I once found a pair of sunglasses that way.
Ray Bans, I hope, for what you had to do to get em. Wear them since?
I never met a tool I didn't like!
Got to ask.......what did you do with the sunshades?
Theresa-Honeydoos
http://www.poetwarrior.us/Honeydoos.html
" Wear them since?" "what did you do with the sunshades?"
Ummm...I tossed them. Was there an alternative??
"Ray Bans, I hope, for what you had to do to get em."
I believe they were just cheap sunglasses (not that I can see much difference when someone shows me expensive ones!!!). They'd of had to have been made of solid gold to escape the trash can, and I still wouldn't have worn them.
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
If there are no mechanical problems with the toilets your problem is one of two. Waste pipe has too many changes of direction. Waste pipe is inadequqtely vented. Probably the latter.
Snake the vent stack for the two toilets that clog from the roof...ya never know what fell down the stack. My roofing sub cloged up a customers drain line with a 1 foot strip of colated roofing nails they dropped down the stack. After the homeowner called the plumber twice, and the septic guy once, we found them is the house trap gift wraped in T.P. Oh yea... forgot the best part...the laundry drain also overflowed and killed about 2000 sq ft of basement carpet. God I love my subs.
My neighbour had a drain problem which came down the stack too- bastard squirrels must've liked the sound those walnuts made as they bounced down two stories and piled up at the first elbow...The RotoRooter guy pulled at least 20 of them out. Obviously a cap's a good idea...
We might be on to something here! If that pain in the neck customer doesen't pay you then the vent stacks get a saran wrap cover just before their dinner party for the boss. I know it's wrong but it would make ME feel beter!
wonder where the 1.6 gal limit came from?
seems 2 or 2.5 gallons would have saved a lot of water and worked better.
Was it a copy europe thing?
i was in a german airport once - low flush toilet
worked great
just flush it 5 times.
"wonder where the 1.6 gal limit came from? seems 2 or 2.5 gallons would have saved a lot of water and worked better. "
Congress in their infinite wisdom. They are all plumbing experts and hydraulic engineers, doncha know...
These things should all be sold with a matching plunger attached.
That something like this is dictated by Federal law should give everyone pause.
Someone mentioned buying a used higher volume toilet at a yardsale. This is a Federal crime.
They were actually considering a provision that would have banned the sale of replacement parts for high-volume toilets. Imagine that water that would have been saved with millions of unrepaired leaking toilets.
i doubt congress thought up the 1.6 gal - it had to be a recommendation from some special interest group.
The numbers seem to translate into even metric amounts that why I asked about Europe.
Metric conversion, I'd guess - 1.6 gallons equals 6 liters.
didBlah, yada, whatever, Hi how are you today
One problem with low volume WCs is that they may succeed at flushing the bowl a few times, but never fully flush out the debris in the waste pipes below. For this reason, lines with an upstream shower may stay clear while those with a downstream shower may not. Pitch is another factor, of course.
Edited 11/13/2003 3:09:46 PM ET by csnow
One problem with low volume WCs is that they may succeed at flushing the bowl a few times, but never fully flush the debris the waste pipes below....... Pitch is another factor, of course.
Hmmm... We had trouble with an expensive low slung 5 gal model I recycled. Still available for anybody who'll haul it off. Traded for a modern 1.6 version that works like a champ. Could be that having our septic tank 50' elevation down the hill has something to do with it. Must be quite a ride.... And the health guy STILL insisted on 2 cleanouts, laughing all the while. Clog? Not much chance of that.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
A lot of rough in flanges have a thin abs seal across them that has to be broken when the toilet is put in.If that was not removed carefully it leaves a sharp edge for the paper to hang up on.Just an amusing note from my b in law who is a plumber,a lot of subs like to take a crap on the flange just to give the plumber a thrill when he has to install the fixture!