How to Unclog a Toilet

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@ZRovas117 6 жыл бұрын

I never knew that there was a plunger specifically for toilets. I always thought those red plunger things were the only kind of plungers there were. LOL

@Aldedandra 6 ай бұрын

Not your typical Mario plunger :P

@PlanWithIvey 6 жыл бұрын

FINALLY SOMEONE MADE A VIDEO ON HOW TO DO THIS! This is why I love this channel. People finally talk about life skills that you NEED to know but no one ever teaches!

@hazelcoodo4814 6 жыл бұрын

I'VE BEEN USING A SINK PLUNGER ALL THIS TIME?!?

@mangaluver1231 6 жыл бұрын

Oh boy have I got my fair share of toilet battle stories. The worst one was about 3 years ago. Every time the downstairs toilet would flush, water would come up in the kitchen sink. And then the toilet would start overflowing. Called the plumber, they looked at it and "fixed it." But not even a month later, same thing started happening again. Turns out, the roots of a tree in our front yard had broken through the pipes. Between getting the tree removed, fixing the toilet, and having to replace the carpet twice, it was a long month.

@VandrothSoryn 6 жыл бұрын

I have never been the same since living the horror of seeing my toilet poop water come up the bath drain after flushing.

@honore6901 3 жыл бұрын

😂

@stefaniebeh706 Жыл бұрын

"learning how to deal with it before it happens" - this is how I'm teaching the autistic kid lifeskills. He's not a roll-with-the-punches kind but he can deal with crises because he's being taught to expect everything lol. Really nice to have something funny to watch as first exposure to a potentially stressful situation. Should make these about more 'unexpected setback' topics like burnt food, uninvited guests, dying houseplants, malfunctioning machines, etc.

@eljn0323 6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad that even though I'm adult I still enjoy quality poop puns

@WalshTV 6 жыл бұрын

Another tip: DO NOT USE DRAIN CLEANER

@tristanholderness4223 6 жыл бұрын

drain cleaners can work with things like slow-to-drain sinks or maybe baths, but yeah, for toilets or for complete blockages, you're almost certainly going to need something mechanical

@kujmous 6 жыл бұрын

"We're ~rooting~ for you." Ha!!! Like Roto Rooter? Also, a strategy I use to avoid splashing while plunging: push the plunger in slowly, and use a quick pull for a suction effect. Don't let it break the surface, though. That will splash.

@tristanholderness4223 6 жыл бұрын

My last house had many issues. When we moved in, all the sinks were completely blocked with big wads of muddy hair and bobby pins which the previous tenants presumably used to try (in vain) to unblock them. I had to remove the u-bends and use a coathanger as an improvised auger before they drained cleanly. Then we had an issue with the downstairs loo's cistern-fill-pipe leaking. I bodged a string to disconnect the pipe so it stopped dripping (but obviously couldn't use the downstairs loo) until the landlord replaced the cistern. Then the downstairs loo blockeḋ. I bought a toilet plunger and despite briefly squirting poo-water out of the sink, was able to unblock it only for all the drains in the house to block and for us to have poo-water bubbling up out of the garden drain. At this point it was clearly beyond our skills so we contacted the landlord who was incommunicado for over a week so we had to call someone in ourselves who spent a couple of hours with massive rods, an endoscope, and big augers on the main drain before eventually getting it moving. Luckily, once the landlord came back we were able to get them to refund us, but it was not a fun time. Apparently the downstairs loo's pipe has a very tight turn in it which was probably responsible for the initial blockage and then, after that, the loosened debris just managed to catch whatever was already at the bottom of the whole house's u-bend (which is apparently a thing)

@Fr1sen0 6 жыл бұрын

Growing up with a family of 6 they would strategically place me in the bathroom whenever they clogged the toilet. They would abuse me and misuse me for hours on end in an attempt to get the clogs dealt with just so they could do it again. I'm tired of this shit. I am a plunger.

@dungeondragon85 6 жыл бұрын

Just dealt with this the other day. Hot water trick worked. Brought a toilet auger just in case I need it in the future.

@anti_MATT_er 6 жыл бұрын

Oh, God. I hope this never happens to me.

@catiedoesit 6 жыл бұрын

I used to work in a nursing home, and I've had to unclog so many toilets because someone tried flushing an incontinence pad, wipes or even a washcloth.

@disrespectthemwomensubjuga5471 6 жыл бұрын

Serious question, how to clean the plunger afterwards?

@stefaniebeh706 Жыл бұрын

Take into the garden close to neighbors fence, powerwash in direction of neighbors.

@ksub91 6 жыл бұрын

I find it odd that in the US a lot of people have some kind of plunger at home, at least from my understanding. While, for example, here in Sweden people tend to not have one, but of course they get one (or call for a professional) the first time they need one, which might never be. Does it have to do with that in the US there's sooo much water in the toilets, which makes it easier to fill up the toilet if something is stuck? Or is it just that professional plumbers in Sweden are very cheap, therefore most people tend to hire them instead of getting a plunger? Actually, I had problems with a clogging toilet in one of my previous apartments. But, since the landlord had an agreement/contract with a plumber company, the landlord paid for hiring a plumber. I hired three plumbers within a week, because something was stuck and clogged the toilet, and the first two couldn't find the problem, turned out to be a screw stuck in the pipes... I lived on the bottom floor at a ten floor building, so maybe one of my neighbours above had thrown away a screw into the toilet (Why, oh, why?...). But this is the only time I have had problems with a clogging toilet, and it had an explanation. Otherwise I have never heard of any people having problems with clogging toilets (except for momentarily when using too much toilet paper, but it always disappear after at most some minutes). It feels like real clogging isn't really a thing here in Sweden.

@NinjaFalllow 6 жыл бұрын

I don't have a clogged toilet story, but I do have a clogged tub story. We moved in to our new apartment and I turned our shower head on to rinse out any cleaning fluids the cleaning lady had left. Came back later and saw that NONE of the water had drained. Let it sit for an hour and NOTHING had moved. So I had to pop out the drain and the entire thing was just caked with hair. Long, brown hair. I scraped out as much as I could with a knitting needle and took care of the rest with some drain cleaner. I don't know how the last tenants could even shower with THAT much hair in the drain! It was so gross! The 2nd bathroom tub was just as bad x_x

@tristanholderness4223 6 жыл бұрын

When I moved into my previous house, the sinks in all the bedrooms, the downstairs loo, the bathroom, and the kitchen were all about this clogged with a terrible mess of muddy hair and bobby pins the previous tenants had presumably used to try (in vain) to unblock them. I had to disconnect the u-bend and poke around with a coat-hanger (which I was using like an improvised auger) to get them running cleanly.

@NinjaFalllow 6 жыл бұрын

HOW COULD THEY THINK THAT WOULD WORK

@puddlesofsunlight 6 жыл бұрын

Alternatively, move to Australia where toilets are normal and don’t clog like this at all ever

@tglaz1 6 жыл бұрын

puddlesofsunlight Unless you do solid man shits

@Mykasan 6 жыл бұрын

Oh and sometimes you just have to wait. that's what one plumber said to my mom. it unclogged on its own (we had done 4 steps ;) )

@anthonihaus 6 жыл бұрын

I get so scared when I flush a toilet and the water will rise pretty high near the rim and I start to freak out

@DarthSmirnoff 6 жыл бұрын

If you can unclog your toilet without having to put a foot up on the tank for leverage, you didn't live life right.

@Jesse-mh6hv 4 жыл бұрын

The thing is I’m not even an adult I’m a teenager 😆 haha in a all seriousness thank you for your videos, I’m thinking of using these now

@sarathoughtonnothing 6 жыл бұрын

this is very useful!

@HamHamDude 6 жыл бұрын

This could have used more poop puns.

@route2070 6 жыл бұрын

There's a sink plunger? I thought the two kinds are use less plunger and useful plunger. Also nice Stephen cameo.

@NinjaTang 6 жыл бұрын

Please help me I dont have a plunger and I used too much toilet paper ....its stuck I used the hot water soap trick and still nothing idk if I shud play around with the flapper or water flow ... im 14

@learnhowtoadult 6 жыл бұрын

I realize this is probably a little bit too late, but if you're just dealing with toilet paper, there's a good chance that it should break down on its own if you give it enough time. As for the flapper and water flow, they're not going to help remove a clog, you can just prevent the bowl from overflowing by making sure no more water enters the bowl. Hope you figured everything out, Sarah

@bananamanasaur 6 жыл бұрын

Joel Sandoval is my hero

@itsJoelSandoval 6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Mongan you are the real hero, my friend.

@bananamanasaur 6 жыл бұрын

Joel Sandoval

@BrendenFP 5 жыл бұрын

Western style? More like American style. I've encountered toilets clogging as many times as I can count on one hand in Europe over almost a decade living here. Whereas clogged toilets are almost a trope in my American childhood. You can't even find a toilet plunger in shops in the UK! Also, toilet bowls here are designed to hold exactly as much water as the tank even with a clog, so no overflowing!

@erin3 6 жыл бұрын

Do I flush tampons or not? At first I thought it was totally fine to flush them but I've more recently learned it is not ok...is that true?

@learnhowtoadult 6 жыл бұрын

It appears that tampons have the potential to damage septic systems, so they should not be flushed. I've included a couple links to tampon manufacturer websites confirming this: tampax: tampax.com/en-us/you-can-help-proper-disposal and kotex: www.ubykotex.com/en-us/periods/pads-and-tampons/some-people-think-that-tampons-will-clog-your-toilet-if

@erin3 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Seems safest to not flush them

@cfloster 6 жыл бұрын

I would suggest not.

@tristanholderness4223 6 жыл бұрын

toilet paper is designed to disintegrate when wet meaning it almost never contributes to blockages; pretty much anything else (including poo) can and will. Tampons are likely to be particularly bad because they expand when wet but are unlikely to be fully expanded once used, this means that if they catch for even a brief while in transit, they can easily expand to plug the gap and cause a blockage. Menstrual products (and, if we're being strict, wet wipes, or anything else other than poo, pee, menstrual blood, and toilet paper) ought to be thrown away in a lidded bin rather than flushed, this is why most public toilets have signs telling you to only flush loo roll and to put anything else in the bin.

@tristanholderness4223 6 жыл бұрын

I always forget how many people in the US aren't connected to proper sewage systems. I don't know about septic systems, but if you're connected to a city sewage system it should definitely be able to handle tp (because it disintegrates it shouldn't cause blockages, but the fibres could still cause problems in some more basic sewage systems) but probably not other products (e.g. tampons, pads, wet wipes, or other tissues)