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Blocked toilet? No plunger? Life hacks

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big yim - Member

Use a balloon.

Apparently the toilet has suddenly become blocked. No one knows how it's happened. 11 o clock at night so can't pop to the shop and get a plunger.
Tried a wire and a pipe bender to no avail.
Grabbed a balloon out the car and blew it up just a a bit bigger than the toilet hole. Plunge away using the balloonoplunge 3000. Hey presto, toilets free.

Disclaimer. I can't guarantee this will work and that the balloon won't burst covering you and your bathroom in the contents of your toilet.

So any more stw life hacks? Or improvisations?

Posted 9 hours ago #
somafunk - Member

I’ve used a length of goodridge compressionless brake housing to successfully poke away a loo blockage before

Posted 8 hours ago #
spacemonkey - Member

An auger did the trick last time we had a blockage something like 5m from the house. Not nice, but perseverance - and trying other tools at the same time - eventually got us up and running.

Posted 8 hours ago #
sirromj - Member

Grabbed a balloon out the car

Posted 8 hours ago #
manvstarmac - Member

Watched a plumber lay an unfolded newspaper across an almost full to the brim pan. Waited for it to become sodden on the sheets touching the water before he pushed hard on it a couple of times in succession. Blockage disappeared and water flowed again.

Never had reason to try it myself since. Not hugely keen to either despite his success.

Posted 8 hours ago #
Phil_H - Member

No toilet plunger, Put a mop in a bin bag and plunge away.
When the blockage is clear remove the bin bag whilst turning it inside out, catching any nasties in the bag and dispose of it.

Posted 8 hours ago #
wiggles - Member

sirromj - Member

Grabbed a balloon out the car

Posted 8 hours ago #
RustyNissanPrairie - Member

Life 'hack' = boiled piss.

It's called using your noggin.
Mini rant over.

Posted 8 hours ago #
funkmasterp - Member

Does nobody else want to know why he has a ready supply of balloons in his car?

Posted 8 hours ago #
zeesaffa - Member

Nope :-\

Posted 8 hours ago #

Poopscoop - Member

Posted 8 hours ago #
Cougar - Moderator

Ok, I'll go.

Separating an egg. Crack it into a bowl, get a plastic pop bottle, squeeze it, put the neck on the yolk and let go. One separated egg.

Posted 7 hours ago #
shakers97 - Member

I love life hacks and this is my fav. If you want to separate a single piece of paper into two smaller sheets, lay the paper down on a flat surface. Take a pair of scissors and start at one edge. Gently squeeze the scissor handles together and move the scissors across the paper. Bingo two pieces of paper when once there was one. Don't all thank me at once.

Posted 2 hours ago #
timba - Member

Crack it into a bowl

Is this on top of the blockage, or on the unfolded newspaper for hygiene reasons??

Posted 2 hours ago #
Davesport - Member

Aye, clingfilm wrapped round the porcelain to effect a good seal and press down on it (gently) until the blockage dislodges. You'll see once you try this you get a bit of a resonance going to shift the offending turds. Check your neighbor isn't doing this at the same time before you start

Posted 1 hour ago #
big yim - Member

I'm afraid the reason for the balloons in the car is quite depressing. We bought a big bag of balloons for a child loss wave of light rememberance service and they've been in the car for months now

Posted 26 minutes ago #
Teetosugars - Member

Ok, I'll go.

Separating an egg. Crack it into a bowl, get a plastic pop bottle, squeeze it, put the neck on the yolk and let go. One separated egg.

Are you trying to advise using this method for separating said Blockage from the Pan bowl?

Posted 20 minutes ago #
grenosteve - Member

Unblocking the toilet - 2l plastic bottle with the bottom cut off, better than any plunger!

Posted 14 minutes ago #
ghostlymachine - Member

Um, we did the clingfilm trick in a converted flat i lived in about 20 years ago in France.
When the blockage finally popped the guy on the ground floor got almost the entire back blast.
A couple of hundred litres of sewage from the second and third floors.

(A family on the first floor had been putting nappies, food waste and all sorts of rubbish down the pipes.........)

Must have been horrific, the top two floors had about a dozen cyclists living in three shared flats........

Posted 14 minutes ago #
dangeourbrain - Member

Cougar - Moderator
Ok, I'll go.

Separating an egg. Crack it into a bowl, ~~get a plastic pop bottle, squeeze it, put the neck on the yolk and let go.~~ reach into bowl and gently pick up yolk, place into whatever you need egg yolk for. One separated egg.

Posted 11 minutes ago #

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