Christmas Eve On Into Christmas Day Toilet Clog And No Hardware Stores Open

Besides the awful timing of the event (only one toilet in my house) there is a sting of paying for my procrastination. I was supposed to have bought a special Snake called a Toilet Auger over 1 month ago but never did it. See attached picture.

Compounding the issue is that My Wife who lives in another City has my Van with my normal type Snakes in it and some other plumbing stuff. At this time she is on her way here.

One of my go to unclogger is Bleach. I put that in overnight but and it worked some and I have a partial clog but not unclogged enough to use the Tiolet.

I am presently trying some straight purple power.

I will be 70 in January and as an older person when I have to go it is going to happen. So, I needed some sort of emergency toilet. Note I have a commode (essentially a char with a toilet lid and a removal pot under it) like people use when they have medical issues, but my Wife is bringing that from the other house and not here yet.

I had to do something in the meantime just in case. I used an old ice chest and an old Toilet Seat with cat litter inside of see the attached picture. Note my Knees and hips have issues, and I cannot squat as people do when they are out in the woods camping and also it has been raining here.

Emergencies happen and I don't know if a pic of the emergency toilet will help anyone or not. You can of course remove the seat from your toilet if you had to.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

Pour a lot of warm water in the bowl but not boiling hot, it works wonders. Why not boiling? Well,...I did that and cracked a porcelain toilet due to the thermal shock. Heard it crack and then watched it leak.

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"Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength" - Eric Hoffer

Gotta wonder what is causing the clog. Are you pregnant? I cants say enough good things about the butt washers I’ve installed on the toilets in my house that drastically cut down on the quantity of TP required to make one’s rear clean. Best analogy is the concept of getting dog poop off your sneaker with toilet paper vs a garden hose. I don’t mean to get nasty with the topic, but it even has helped me cut down on the frequency of my showers, as that area would generally be the area that requires showering otherwise. $33 on Amazon for a Neo brand bidet. Works great. Far fewer toilet clogs.

Merry Christmas!

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Past mb: '73 450sl, '81 280slc stick, '71 250, '72 250c, '70 250c, '79 280sl, '73 450sl, parted: '75 240d stick, '69 280s, '73 450slc, '72 450sl,

While I was waiting on my Wife, I had bailed out of the toilet and dumped in a gallon of purple power and a gallon Zep citrus cleaner. It took my Wife about 1 hour to get here.

When she arrived, I dumped water into the toilet from 3-gallon bucket of water into the toilet and the obstruction cleared. So that emergency is over with.

But 2 gallons of the cleaner is an expensive drain clean.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

I tried that. No immediate effect.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

Is the water that washes your butt cold or warm?

When toilet paper comes up with a significant sale, I have issue with buying Ten 12 packs.

Since my Wife drove the van here, I got all of the plumbing stuff out including a new can of Lye that would have been cheaper to use thin the 2 gallons of cleaner.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

You can pony up a few extra bucks for one that has a hot water feed too. We have this one upstairs, but it doesn’t seem necessary IMO. We do have this one upstairs in our house. It’s more likely to get bumped and shoot water across the room due to the handle design though.

https://www.amazon.com/LUXE-Bidet-BidetNeo320s-Attachment-inches/dp/B00A0RX2UI/ref=asc_df_B00A0RX2UI?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80539344142743&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584138871699136&psc=1

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Past mb: '73 450sl, '81 280slc stick, '71 250, '72 250c, '70 250c, '79 280sl, '73 450sl, parted: '75 240d stick, '69 280s, '73 450slc, '72 450sl,

So you spray butt with water to rinse off? Do you use your hand to remove the residual? I'm not sure how just a spray of water removes the residual.

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Jim

Ouch .

First thing : MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE !.

D911 you have good critical thinking skills, as an old Farm Boy I'da done something very similar .

BTW : you needn't wait until your old to have impatient poops, just try taking fiber three times daily, I get maybe 20 minutes between "? eh ?" and 'HERE WE GO......

I had an 'interesting' Christmas eve, at my house the 1923 mixing faucet was giving me troubles and I wasn't able to find a new stem for it anywhere .

Eventually I would up at my Sweet's house where I attacked the hard water build up on the shower glass, that worked me into a lather so when I stopped (I think I need a rotary drill attachment for this job) I turned on the shower and Lo ! no hot water .

It was raining out side and I wasn't able to get the water heater re lit so eventually a freezing cold shower, at least I was clean .

Then my glasses broke, then I learned my elder sister caught convid-19 then her husband got it from her then...

Well, you get the picture .

At least we're all alive and able to chat here and enjoy life .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Ever seen a pressure washer at work?

TP is good to dry off.

You can “stick” to smearing crap across your butt hole if you prefer.

Fear the smear.

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Past mb: '73 450sl, '81 280slc stick, '71 250, '72 250c, '70 250c, '79 280sl, '73 450sl, parted: '75 240d stick, '69 280s, '73 450slc, '72 450sl,

No matter how bad off you think you are there is always someone with word issue. However, that is not comforting.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

Some of us are barbarians.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

These are nothing new, I learned of them in the early 1970's, I thought they were more for women, they were different from the one described here .

When I got married long long ago and was traveling with my young wife we stopped at a nice hotel in the middle of nowhere, Mexico and she came and asked me what's the fully looking toilet for ? I explained it to her then had to show her how it worked, , left her alone for a while and she came out very pleased indeed .

Sadly I never did figure out how to properly use the thing, my bum would always be very wet .

The Japanese are *very* fond of them .

I'm now on a heavy fiber diet and it turns out my old friend from the Peace Corps was right : if you have a high fiber diet with little meat or grease the feces pretty much drops right out and you need very little paper indeed .

? Did everyone have a nice Christmas apart from clogged toilets ? .

I lost my internet whilst reading this, I didn't mean to sound like I was complaining, I had a wonderful Christmas with my Sweet, our two foster boys and her daughter who came by and gave me socks ~ after all these decades someone finally listened ! I hated socks and undies as presents as a child, now I don't want anything else...

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I bought my Toilet Auger. I picked the cheaper one and with my military discount and the tax it was about $37.

A RidGid product. Made in the USA from USA and China components.

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84 300D, 82 Volvo 244Gl Diesel

What brand is this toilet ? .

There's a good discussion on brands and styles, I didn't realize the swirl isn't what moves things along, it's the jet at the bottom, many toilets don't have well designed jets...

I got fed up and bought a KHOLER after watching this silly and absurd TV commercial about the husband flushing all his wife's cosmetics then a 40 $ bag of dog food...

It co$t $600 and broke my little budget for a long time but was worth evry penny, several years now and nary one clog...

Sadly I have over six decades of plunger use and experience , I don't want to so that anymore .

It turns out there's a specific method to make a plunger work easily .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better