I have a 1.1 bath house in suburban NJ. When we bought the house I replaced both toilets (one a second floor bath, and one a lone toilet tucked under the stairs in the basement) with American standard pressure assist toilets.
I bought pressure assists because I was “sure” that they would be able to flush anything (or atleast thats what the instutional ones in college did)
After about two years, the one in the basement was having problems clogging, and a plumber was called, and the toilet was pulled and snaked out to the street. turns out a doofus roomate was flushing papertowels. duh!
3 years later the toilet in the basement is not flushing too well, and random bits of clean tp are showing up in the bowl if the toilet is left unflushed after 3-4 days.
My house is on top of a hill, so even the basement is about 3-4 feet above street level.
If I plunge the toilet, the toilet will flush with more gusto, but the bowl still isnt cleaning…. I am wondering if I have a clogged waste stack, or another clogged line… the upstairs toilet is behaving fine.
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add lye to the bowl and let soak...
something is hung up in the trap of the toilet..
you mean the stuff that says DO NOT USE IN TOILETS?
I am assuming that it should go into toilets because of potential back splatter..... but just want to check, because you know what happens when one assumes...
jeff
lye from the soap department at the store... or lye base...
it's corrosive so be careful...
I first I thought that you where talking about this.
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=56979
"Man arrested in women's outhouse tank
By LORNA COLQUHOUN
Union Leader Correspondent
Merchants Automotive Group
ALBANY — A 45-year-old Gardiner, Maine, man was arrested Sunday on criminal trespass charges after a teenage girl found him staring at her from below an outhouse seat, police said.
Police pulled Gary Moody from the waste tank under a log cabin outhouse off the Kancamagus Highway at about 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
"We had to decontaminate him," said Capt. Jon Hebert of the Carroll County Sheriff's Department, adding that firefighters hosed the man down before police handcuffed him.
"We treated him as if he were hazardous material," Hebert said."
Now that is STRANGE TOILET BEHAVIOR....
"3 years later the toilet in the basement is not flushing too well, and random bits of clean tp are showing up in the bowl if the toilet is left unflushed after 3-4 days."
If you are saying that if you don't use the basement toilet for a period of time you will start seeing new bits of TP showing up that was flushed from the upstairs toilet then the problem is not in the trap of the toilet.
But rather something downstream of both of them. Also possibly there might be a problem in the venting system that would cause "pumping" of the toilet.
Watch the water in the bowl in the lower on while the upper one is flushed. I suspect that you will see the water surging.
Edited 6/30/2005 12:00 pm ET by Bill Hartmann
"We treated him as if he were hazardous material," Hebert said.
Bwaahahaha
Guy's obviously a dipsh*t. Always wondered where the term came from!PJ
Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.
hmmmm.... the plot thickens, had the DW flush the upstairs potty, and I watched the downstairs. I put pepper in the water to observe movement. I put a wax pencil mark and the water moved, but did not go up or down when it was flushed,. the wastestack is on the second story of a really steep roof, and silly me I am terrified of heights.
Jeff
how much movement????
Was there enough movement to get the Tidy Bowl man sea sick?http://www.tvacres.com/admascots_tidbowl.htm
Bill. Time for some poetry?
"My Neighbors toilet."
Gray sky's, mix clouds
Mysterious ocean's and monster waves.
And me...
Continuation of unknown fountain
toy in the hand's of good and evil.
In my dreams again the python hag me.
In my dreams again the Demons and the Cyclopes.
Gray sky's, mix clouds
Mysterious ocean's and monster waves.
And me...
Continuation of unknown fountain
Reason for existent of Gods and Devils.
In my dreams again the python hag me.
But... my dreams interrupted by....
My neighbors toilet.
YCF Dino
Edited 7/1/2005 12:10 am ET by YCFriend
I was travelling down south on the interstate and had to use a rest area. Went in and found it was a pit toilet. Finished up and as I was leaving I noticed a movement down in the toilet. I peered in and saw a drunk indian lying in there. I yelled and ask him how long he had been in there. He took his palm facing out and made a wide sweeping arc above his chest and replied ' many moons'.
A person with no sense of humor about themselves is fullashid
Moan!!
That's not bizarre. I was reading in one of those "news of the weird" things about a club/restaurant somewhere in Asia (Taiwain, maybe) that has a toilet theme. The seats are toilet seats, and many of the dishes are served in minature toilets.
Now, THAT'S bizarre!
I've had similar problems with the toilet my children used a few times. It was always something in the "gooseneck" of the toilet. A plastic fork, a toothbrush, and a smallcomb. All three allowed most waste to pass but not quite like it should, and left the tissue pieces behind. I would bet there is some such item lodged in your toilet.
woody
somewhere I read of a feller found Ninja Turtles caught in the bend - seems the kids reckoned they came out of the sewers, so that's where should go back.cheers
***I'm a contractor - but I'm trying to go straight!***
I'm missing something, are you saying that the toilet is used for three days without flushing? If thats so, more than likely thats your problem. They are not designed for three days of matter to be flushed in one swoop. If that is not so, then you have a partial stoppage in your line. If you have a pressure assisted American Standard toilet, the bladder should be by Sloan. [One of the best around]. Take off the tank lid and look for water, if you have more than an inch or so, then you probaly have a bladder problem. Thats the best I can do with the information. Luck be with you.
we do not use the toilet that often because it is under the stairs, but flush every time a deposit is made. there is about 1/2 inch of water in the tank....
I'd get different renters...