Plumbing Advice

[puff_not_snuff]

My aging Mom well... uh, I'm having some issues with her. She texted me the other day that she somehow managed to drop her glasses in the toilet, and flush them! Needless to say the toilet is now clogged despite her telling me that the frames were "very thin". Is this something I can somehow dislodge with a snake? I would like to avoid paying a plumber $500 or whatever if I can manage on my own.

 

[captpat]

I would be concerned with dislodging from the current location to another, harder to get at, location downstream. For reference I had to have one of those toilet cleaners that hang off the side of the bowl fished out after it get flushed. Took a plumber about 10 minutes for $120, he used a snake that had a set of clamshells on the end to grasp it.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

I would be concerned with dislodging from the current location to another, harder to get at, location downstream. For reference I had to have one of those toilet cleaners that hang off the side of the bowl fished out after it get flushed. Took a plumber about 10 minutes for $120, he used a snake that had a set of clamshells on the end to grasp it.

Oh, good point. I could just end up making the whole thing more expensive which would be my typical luck.

 

[Brendan]

I'm wondering if Momar 'Mo-Flo' would eventually eat those glasses...

 

[Brendan]

Toilet Buddy

Toilet Buddy (formerly known as Toilet Guard) is a circular net that hangs in your toilet to catch things before they fall in. The toilet buddy can catch things like your wallet and spare change before they drop into toilet. Michael Scott invented the Toilet Buddy in the deleted cold open from...

theoffice.fandom.com

I knew this would have a use eventually.

Formerly known as toilet guard.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Toilet Buddy

Toilet Buddy (formerly known as Toilet Guard) is a circular net that hangs in your toilet to catch things before they fall in. The toilet buddy can catch things like your wallet and spare change before they drop into toilet. Michael Scott invented the Toilet Buddy in the deleted cold open from...

theoffice.fandom.com

I knew this would have a use eventually.

Formerly known as toilet guard.

That reminds me one April Fools my older brother put saranwrap real tight on the toilet bowl. I might of actually saw it but I still decided to wiz on it.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

My aging Mom well... uh, I'm having some issues with her. She texted me the other day that she somehow managed to drop her glasses in the toilet, and flush them! Needless to say the toilet is now clogged despite her telling me that the frames were "very thin". Is this something I can somehow dislodge with a snake? I would like to avoid paying a plumber $500 or whatever if I can manage on my own.

Are you hoping to retrieve the glasses or just get the toilet unclogged? The glasses might not have traveled very far and are just hooking toilet paper, creating a blockage. You might be able to reach in and pull the glasses out of the bottom of the bowl before the turn down where the wax seal would be.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Are you hoping to retrieve the glasses or just get the toilet unclogged? The glasses might not have traveled very far and are just hooking toilet paper, creating a blockage. You might be able to reach in and pull the glasses out of the bottom of the bowl before the turn down where the wax seal would be.

I don't care about the glasses. I believe they were already broken or something so I am just looking to unclog the toilet. I think I'll buy a snake with a grabber although I never managed to hook a stuffed teddy bear for my bea.

 

[sasquatch]

Yeah just turn the water valve off, disconnect it, unscrew the bottom floor bolts and lift the toilet off. Hopefully the glasses are sitting there in the bottom of the toilet.

 

[mawnansmiff]

I'm struggling with how a pair of spectacles managed to get passed the 'U' bend in the toilet pan.

Either exceptionally large 'U' bend or tiny spectacles

Regards,

Jay.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

I'm struggling with how a pair of spectacles managed to get passed the 'U' bend in the toilet pan.

Either exceptionally large 'U' bend or tiny spectacles

Regards,

Jay.

Yea well, I'm still struggling with how she not only dropped them in there but managed to flush them!

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I'm struggling with how a pair of spectacles managed to get passed the 'U' bend in the toilet pan.

Either exceptionally large 'U' bend or tiny spectacles

Regards,

Jay.

Clearly, the spectacles saw a way to do it. We must lack vision.

 

[jpberg]

Yeah just turn the water valve off, disconnect it, unscrew the bottom floor bolts and lift the toilet off. Hopefully the glasses are sitting there in the bottom of the toilet.

Yup. Pull the toilet. Any monkey can do it. Replace the wax ring while it’s off.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Shop vac.. Suck the glasses out. I was a maintenance man in the projects for a couple years. I had a shop vac that was designated as the toilet vac.. I pulled out toothbrushes, spiderman, turds, anything you could thing of with that trusty vaccum.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Shop vac.. Suck the glasses out. I was a maintenance man in the projects for a couple years. I had a shop vac that was designated as the toilet vac.. I pulled out toothbrushes, spiderman, turds, anything you could thing of with that trusty vaccum.

You should of saved items and opened a museum of toilet horrors on site!!

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

You should of saved items and opened a museum of toilet horrors on site!!

It would have just given them more ideas.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

It would have just given them more ideas.

That's why you have the ribbon cutting a week before you quit with a display of more extreme items to inspire the youth. My Mom could of come down and given a lecture!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yeah just turn the water valve off, disconnect it, unscrew the bottom floor bolts and lift the toilet off. Hopefully the glasses are sitting there in the bottom of the toilet.

This.

Takes 20-30 minutes to replace a wax seal and gives you the opportunity to inspect and if necessary replace the flange. I replaced the wax with silicone a few years back, it lasts years longer.

 

[scloyd]

I replaced the wax with silicone a few years back, it lasts years longer.

Yep. I did the same when I installed a new taller toilet a couple of years ago. I will never go back to a wax seal.