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I have a toilet which flushes away slowly and can’t flush tissue paper. The cistern seems fine, and filling the bowl up with a bucket also flushes slowly. My plunger is broken and nowhere other than amazon (of which I doubt the quality) seems to sell the good classic pull-up style ones anymore, only those hard plastic push-down accordion looking ones, which I’m told aren’t very good as they only push the blockage down. It’s a modern toilet so not super plunger friendly anyway.
I’ve used my 2m rigid toilet auger to no avail. Ran it through 10 times without shifting or pulling anything back up.
Ideally I’d like to avoid taking the toilet off the floor because past experience tells me all the couplers will one by one break and I’ll spend a week taking the toilet back apart and replacing various rubber fittings and grommets in the toilet until it doesn't leak anymore. It’s also a pain to do on this one because the tiles behind were installed after the build, so push ever so slightly on the cistern, meaning it’t gotta be in the exact right place to seal back together properly. The other 2 toilets flush fine which makes me think it’s nothing further outside.
I was thinking of buying a 7m drain snake and passing it through some 40mm PVC (to prevent scratching the bowl) but don’t know if there’s some other risk to using a snake, like getting tangled in the waste drain or something.
What’s the go to here? Snake, Accordion, trust amazon to send me a good classic pull plunger, or pull the toilet and hope my auger can reach it?
I’ve used my 2m rigid toilet auger to no avail. Ran it through 10 times without shifting or pulling anything back up.
Ideally I’d like to avoid taking the toilet off the floor because past experience tells me all the couplers will one by one break and I’ll spend a week taking the toilet back apart and replacing various rubber fittings and grommets in the toilet until it doesn't leak anymore. It’s also a pain to do on this one because the tiles behind were installed after the build, so push ever so slightly on the cistern, meaning it’t gotta be in the exact right place to seal back together properly. The other 2 toilets flush fine which makes me think it’s nothing further outside.
I was thinking of buying a 7m drain snake and passing it through some 40mm PVC (to prevent scratching the bowl) but don’t know if there’s some other risk to using a snake, like getting tangled in the waste drain or something.
What’s the go to here? Snake, Accordion, trust amazon to send me a good classic pull plunger, or pull the toilet and hope my auger can reach it?
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