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1. 
   calvin | Feb 22, 2007 07:19am | #1

   What can't go down.............

   must go up.

   In spite of the plumbers adage.

   A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   http://www.quittintime.com/

    

2. 
   RalphWicklund | Feb 22, 2007 07:42am | #2

   Why is your toilet constipated? Just age? Clogged artery?

   Pull that sucker out, check the flow of the line, the vent function and put in the new one.

   Bombs away!

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   etherhuffer | Feb 22, 2007 08:57am | #4

   I think the sewer is ok, I think the problem is the tank does not drop quick enough through those old holes to start the siphon fast enough.http://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com

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   Hackinatit | Feb 22, 2007 02:34pm | #5

   Could be the wax ring has lost its seal.Troy Sprout

   Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."-- Thomas Sowell

3. 
   rich1 | Feb 22, 2007 08:01am | #3

   And here I thought that toilets were supposed to be connected to the sewer.

    

   Now I gotta go back to school.  :)

   BTW, in fourth year, you learn that given enough pressure, it WILL flow uphill.

4. 
   Jer | Feb 22, 2007 02:39pm | #6

   Get a Toto and be done with it.

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   etherhuffer | Feb 22, 2007 07:08pm | #7

   How about the new whirlpool super typhoon line pressure 0.1 gal per piddle models :-)http://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com

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   Robrehm | Feb 23, 2007 05:58am | #10

   Isn't that what the Lone ranger said?

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   caseyr | Feb 23, 2007 04:46am | #8

   I once worked for an insurance company. We had one claim where a toilet was installed on a slab floor on one side of the warehouse and the waste line was run overhead across the warehouse to the sewer. They used a pump to get the blackwater up and over. As the women had a tendency to flush Tampaxs, etc., the overhead line plugged where it hit the main line. The pump just kept pumping away until the pipe blew. There were Tampaxs, paper, and ... well, blackwater all over the warehouse. It didn't hit the fan, but just about everything else.

   The insurance company paid on the loss of merchandise without bothering to inspect it...

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   etherhuffer | Feb 23, 2007 05:16am | #9

   EEEEEWWWWWWW!http://www.etherhuffer.typepad.com

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   arrowshooter | Feb 23, 2007 09:00am | #11

   If it has been working in the past the vent stack could have something blocking it.

    

   Make sure the vent is clear