My toilet is clogged and unfortunately, we still all need to use the bathroom. I have plunged my toilet. It won’t work pour boiling water and also use shop vac until finally I started using medical gloves, maybe three pairs at a time and actually picking poop and over use of a tissue out of the toilet. How can I get my toilet unclogged?
How can I unclog a toilet with little to no water and no tools?
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Before the answer: you might be better off calling some specialized plumber / plumbing company to help with the issue. Possibly more expensive, but a lot less hassle for you. And they already have all the proper tools and skills.
Idea: since you already started doing the repairs DIY style, you might as well try to disconnect the drain tubes, and have more / better access to the area needing attention. This is applicable additionally to any other repair attempt - even though it could mean more mess - depending on where exactly is the clog.
Here is some brainstorm. I do not know the exact details of your situation, and I do not know if this will actually solve the problem. And you might need to throw away not-so-cheap stuff. Since you already hand-picked things from the said toilette, this hack is not a lot worse.
If "simple" de-clogging did not work, try something more powerful - a vacuum cleaner. The requirements for the cleaner:
- To be suitable to suck liquids, as well as solids. Classic (i.e., old) vacuum cleaners are unsuitable for wet stuff.
- Even better: to have water filtration.
- Personal estimation: tornado filtering might not be suitable at all in your case.
- Ideally, the vacuum cleaner allows you to connect to it a non-official tube.
- the more powerful, the better.
- the cheaper, the better - especially if you will need to decide to throw it away at the end.
- for filtering, use a sack of some kind - as long as the sack is suitable for liquids. It has a better chance to contain the dirt.
Note: even if you can clean the vacuum cleaner in general, it might be too difficult or too expensive to clean the motor enclosure. If that proves to be a problem, either do not follow this hack, or throw the cleaner to garbage (is there an ecologic way to dispose of the dirty vacuum cleaner in this case? I have no idea).
So the basic idea is simple: no not use the rigid metal tubes, do not use any brushes. Just the flexible tube. Allow the cleaner to remove all the content from the toilette. Go as deep as needed in the toilette (I mean, with the tube). If the tube is too short, then maybe you can attach (or at least hack) a longer flexible tube. Please note that you do not need special tubes for the job, just something flexible enough, rigid enough and long enough for the job. Even the flexible tubes for electricity (of the proper diameter) might be suitable for this temporary job. I do hope for your own sake that this job will not become recurrent.
If this will not help:
if you reach the blockage point, but the cleaner cannot suck it, a plumber's snake might come handy. it can grab all kinds of things that might have fallen in. If the drain is common with the shower or bathtub, you might have a ball of hair somewhere.
if nothing else works, call a specialist. This might even be your best choice, even before you try other things.
Good luck, you really seem to need it.
Note: After you finish the job, it might be interesting to have a look at the result, and understand what exactly was the source of the problem. A firefighting plastic truck, a cosmetic or hygienic accessory, hair balls or whatever. In this way, you might be able to prevent such situations in the future.