How to eliminate clogging in the toilet
The occurrence of clogging in the toilet is a fairly common problem. It can be encountered in a city apartment, a country house and a dacha equipped with a sewage drainage system. This problem usually requires a quick solution. If you wait for a leisurely plumbing, then the scale of the spillage of fecal water can lead to regular repairs and large budget spending. Meanwhile, the solution to the problem of how to eliminate blockage in the toilet is accessible even for the average person. For this, no special technological skills are required, but rather minimal knowledge and presence in the pulp mill of the available tools that are sold in each hardware store.
What clogs up our toilet bowls
In order to master the technology of cleaning the toilet bowl and adjacent sewer pipes, you first need to familiarize yourself with its design.
The toilet is a sanitary unit, inside of which there is a waste water receiver, passing into a curved pipe, the output of which is connected to the sewage system. Bending of pipes in the toilet is designed to create a water seal, which is designed to prevent the penetration of unpleasant sewage into the apartment.
Sample of clogging in toilet
Has in this bend, as a rule, various large insoluble in water objects fall and get stuck. These can be scraps of heavy paper, rags and other rags, bags and polyethylene and so on. Basically, such things fall into your toilet because of the actions of your own households, but in a separate case, in apartment buildings, such items can get into your sewerage system because of the activities of your upper neighbors.
Methods for cleaning toilets
In general, the methods for cleaning the toilet bowl coincide with similar actions to eliminate blockages in other sanitary facilities. Conventionally, they can be divided into two large groups:
- Mechanical methods - are the destruction or removal of the object of blockage by mechanical solid devices.
- Chemical methods - consist in destruction, dissolution of objects of a blockage by aggressive chemical liquids.
Chemical way to eliminate the clog in the toilet
This is the simplest way to eliminate blockages. In order to conduct it, you must purchase a special liquid or powder in the hardware stores that are poured or poured directly into the toilet bowl. Powder or liquid creates an aggressive solution, on an alkaline or acidic basis, which dissolves all obstacles that come in its way.
But such methods must be treated with some caution. When using such aggressive solutions, there is always the possibility of damage to both the plumbing equipment itself and the sewage pipelines adjacent to it. So before using such substances, carefully read their composition and instructions for use and correlate the knowledge gained with the composition of materials that are used in your sewer system.
Cleaning the toilet bowl with soda is a simple method of
An essential disadvantage of using chemically aggressive liquids is their inability to deal with certain types of clogging, for example, with jamming of solid objects.
Mechanical methods for cleaning the toilet bowls - plunger
The Vantuz is a very popular plumbing tool that must be present in every home. Its design is extremely simple - a rubber hemisphere placed on the mounting handle.
Working with such a tool is extremely simple: place the rubber hemisphere above the drain point and push hard water deep into the drain. The water pressure is transferred to the site of the blockage, destroys it or pushes it deep into the sewage system down to the main sewer pipe.
Cleaning the toilet using the plunger
We use the handy tools for emergency cleaning
In emergency situations, in the absence of a plunger, you can use the improvised devices. To do this, take a plastic bottle of a suitable size, cut off the bottom and lower this structure into the drain hole. As well as the plunger - make sharp jerks, which must destroy the blockage in the sewage system or in the bend of the inner tube of the toilet bowl.
Chemical cleaning liquid can be manufactured independently. To do this, find half the pack of ordinary household soda. Dissolve it in water and pour it into the toilet. Such an alkaline solution works great for eliminating some types of clogging.
We use sanitary cable
The sanitary cable is an excellent device for eliminating blockages in the toilet and in the sewage system. It allows not only to destroy the clog or push its source towards the main jamb, but also to extract large objects( for example, rags) in a misunderstanding that have got into the sewer system.
Sanitary cable for cleaning the toilet - photo
The plumbing cable is equipped with a L-shaped handle on one side and a sharp nozzle or a spiral on the other side. The spiral attachment can be used as a kind of hook, by which an object is extracted, which has blocked the sewerage.
The scheme of cleaning the toilet with a cable
The procedure for using a plumbing cable is very simple:
Lower the tip of the cable into the toilet drain hole or into the drain hole of the sink or bathtub. For convenience of work in a sink it is possible to remove a lattice of a drain aperture, it keeps all on one bolt. Also, the end of the cable can be inserted directly into the sewer pipe, detaching the siphon from the sink, which is cleaned and rinsed under running water.
Holding the cable with one hand - thread its tip as deep as possible. Then, by rotating the L-shaped handle, push the tip of the cable closer to the place of blockage. The stuffed object can either be pushed into the main riser, or extracted by hooking it with a spiral attachment.
We clean the toilet bowl with homemade pumping
A homemade instrument called pumping also helps effectively to fight against blockages in the toilet and in the sewer pipes.
We clean the toilet bowl with self-pumping
It is manufactured in the following way:
- Find the steel rod and at one end cut the thread,
- Cut two plates out of steel and rubber, in their center make a hole.
- Screw the nut onto the stem end, then secure the plates and secure them with one more nut.
- At the opposite end of the stem, make a handle for ease of use. It can be formed by simply wrapping the end with electrical tape.
The manufactured tool can effectively eliminate blockages. Place the plates in the toilet drain and sharp jerks, similar to using the plunger, push the mass of water into the sewer pipes.
Toilet blockages in the apartment house
If the removal of the litter in the apartment house in an apartment building is quite simple, since you have access to the entire sewer system, from the toilet bowl to the septic tank, eliminating blockages in apartment buildings can cause certain problems.
Due to the chaotic movement of the sewage sinks of the object of blockage, whether it is a rag or a plastic bag, it can get into your system from the upper floors. In order to avoid such problems - at the junction of the sewer system of your apartment and the main riser, you need to place a non-return valve.
We remove the blockage of the corrugated corrugation
If the toilet is clogged, there may be a situation where you have to disconnect the sewer pipe from the toilet bowl. By using this method, you can not only effectively clean the blockage that may form in the bend of the toilet, but also get direct access to the sewage pipelines. In this case, the plumbing cable can be routed directly to the pipe, which will facilitate troubleshooting work. However, it is necessary to carry out such work with caution and with the warning of neighbors to ensure that no new portion of wastewater arrives.
We carry out preventive works of
In order to avoid the occurrence of emergency troubles - when operating the toilet bowl, you must follow certain rules. Remember that the toilet is not designed to discharge large-sized and insoluble in water objects. Even a small rag that has got into the toilet bowl can become an anchor for smaller objects and form a solid clog.
Pay attention to the liquids poured into the toilet. Some of them can form insoluble compounds on contact with cold sewage and clog the pipelines.
To prevent clogging, regular cleaning should be carried out to clean the toilet bowls with the help of special cleaning agents.
In order to learn more about the process of cleaning the clog in the toilet - read the video lesson.
