How to Fix a Toilet - Unclogging a Toilet - Plunger

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Plunger Tool = http://youtu.be/E0KNHT_wsUo?hd=1
Auger Repair = http://youtu.be/ROY5M8zWPxc?hd=1
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Plunger

Occasionally a toilet may become blocked when the amount of debris exceeds the water weight used in a typical flush cycle. The most common way to unblock a toilet is to use a toilet plunger. A toilet plunger works by forcing water against the blockage, using pressure to push the offending debris through the u-trap freeing the water flow. Plungers are often all its takes to unblock and get a toilet working again.

Tools Needed

Toilet plungers are available at most hardware and general goods stores and should not be confused with their smaller counterparts, sink plungers.

Making the Repair

When beginning this repair, make sure there is adequate water present in the toilet's bowl. Plungers work by pushing water, so in certain situations water will need to be added to the bowl before you start plunging.

Insert the toilet plunger into the bowl of the toilet. Seat the plunger around the drain of the bowl, making a close seal, which is important to maximize water pressure. Rapidly depress the plunger around 12 times forcing water against the blockage. Unless the blockage is severe this technique will break up whatever is caught in the toilet's u-trap.

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• Unclog
• unclogging
• toilet
• repair
• blockage
• won't
• flush
• will
• not
• flooding
• plunger
• auger

[jcao219]

I just realized I've been using a sink plunger for my entire life.

[92gt50]

Well No shit!!!!!!

[obsessiontogibs]

I um never mind and I had to do this over seven times @;-

[xmaxfactorx]

hate it when i have to do this while the crap is floating all around D:

[K4inan]

@princessdirtydiana33 Haha, I know.

[princessdirtydiana33]

@K4inan lmaooo thats so funny n gross

[Xcoming2]

i never had to add water

[shalabhjaiswal]

Thanks worked for me!

[slopredrider]

Tried it, nope, didn't work, although, I did get some pretty painful blisters from trying for so long. Also tried with every type of wire I could get my hands on. Next step, purchase a toilet auger, you see, the loaf I made to clog this thing consisted of more fiber than most people eat in a year. So its solid as a rock, and I have a feeling I will need to remove the toilet and go mining.

Thanks everyone.

[K4inan]

My friends dad who is a plumber, told me the worst thing he has ever found in a person's toilet, was a big black dildo... The owner of the apartement was single man.. YUCK.

[Ensensu2]

@murfreebear yeah see if you can't live next to white castle and clog all of its toilets

[CrazyCosplayers55]

@epicstreetballa23 that happened to me to XD