A Fun Way To End A Day.

Leo G

Worked all day Saturday at my woodworking business. Go out of state to take some measurements for a former client of mine for some new work. On the way home I call the wife to inform her I will be there shortly. I need to take my son (#1) to my Dad's club where they are holding a dinner, he will be on the waiting staff. It is 4:45 and we need to be at the club for 6:00. My wife informs me that the toilet is plugged and I need to unstop it before I go. No problem I think, get the plunger and a couple of plunges and I'll be on my way. Come home and go to the bathroom where the problem is. Holy crap, soaked towels all over the floor the toilet full of you know what and up to the top. I use the plunger a few times and now I know why there are towels on the floor. Get some saran wrap and put it over the bowl and go at it. 10 minutes later I am no-where. I ask my younger son (#2) if he stuck anything into the toilet - of course - he says no. I need to leave to the club. Change, wash up and go. Get there do the club thing go home. Go to the Orange Box instead, and get a 3' toilet snake. Looks good, this should be easy now. Get home and stick it down and move it around wa-la I think to myself. Flush the toilet and it just gets higher and higher. What the $#%^!! OK now I'm tee'd. Go downstairs and look for a clean out. There it is. Open it up and no water, no blockage to be seen. So that means it is blocked before the clean out, about 4 feet of pipe until the toilet. Stick the snake up towards the toilet and a gush of smelly, putrid water comes out. OK now we're getting somewhere. See some TP come down, figure I broke the blockage, I'll wait for everything to drain down and then clean it out. Wait 10 minutes and clean it out, yahoo this should be it. Go upstairs flush the toilet 3 times and on the third it starts to fill back up. Damn it. Go back down stairs and open the cleanout and no water. At least this time the water is clean. Stick the snake up and out comes the water, take the snake out, wait, it's stuck, pull, pull, pull. Won't budge. What the heck. Take a look into the pipe and, What's This? It's blue, it's round, it's, it's, one of those balls in the jumping pits that you find at a Chucky Cheeze's. Yanked it out by puncturing it with a screwdriver, close up the cleanout and flushed the toilet 10 times, worked every time. Yea finished. One question though. The ball is about 3 1/4" round and the pipe in the toilet is about 2" How the heck did it get past the trap?? Oh yea, BTW, my son doesn't know it yet, but I believe he will be in his room for a week or so. Maybe I'll get him some of those balls to play with while he's thinking about what not to put in the toilet. Nice way to end the day. I think I'll go shower now.

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reveivl

I had something similar happen, the toilet backed up all over everything, no-one had dropped any thing into it. Much filth later I managed to extricate my eldest daughter's toothbrush! Tried to give it back to her, but she was too smart for that.

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Mike Finley

For your sons sake I hope you guys have a dog so he can blame it on him.

Glasshousebltr

Should have sent the little turd down in after his new ball.

Tell him it's a diving adventure.

Bob

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old27

Q-tips are just as evil as Chucky Cheese balls. Long story short-

Junior flushed a handful of q-tips...dad not being a plumber went out and bought the $99 Kohler unit at HD to replace the whole kit and kaboodle b/c the toilet wouldnt drain...hauled the toilet off the bolts...$99 too late.

Lessons learned:

Diag the problem before spending dough

Dont flush q-tips.

JPV123

We had a clog that I could not clear, called in a plumber. He took the bowl off and snaked through, re-unstalled and it was still clogged. He took the bowl off again and found a small drinking cup that my kids rinse with perfectly stuck in the trap blocking water. My wife bought the plastic ones since they were on sale. we know only buy the wax coated paper ones. If it happens again they should start to break apart after being soaked for a while. We keep the garbage can next to the toilet. My 4 year old must of missed when he went to throw it out.

firemike

My grandson did it with a transformer, one of those bendable changeable little robot things. Clear water would pass just fine, a toilet auger went past just fine, but put paper in it and it got caught on all the little projections and plugged it up tight. A plunger would be enough to break up the paper clog and it would flow by and the toilet would work fine until the next time someone put toilet paper down it. (Scratch head, utter "what the &%^$!)

Ended up finally pulling the toilet and using a small inspection mirror before I finally found what was causing it.

mdshunk

I had the same experience with a doll head. Apparently, my oldest son was teasing my daughter, and flushed one of her doll heads down the commode. It got stuck inside the commode, and wouldn't come out. I pulled the crapper, and couldn't get it out of the top or the bottom. I got the bright idea that I'd melt it out by sticking a torch up in there. Apparently, I caught the doll head on fire, and the heat broke the toilet. The doll head was real easy to get out then, but the toilet bowl was not useable. Fun, fun.