Solo parent of autistic kids here & homeowner. First homeowner. We have only one toilet. This means every time we have this issue, no one can go to the toilet for hours and hours and it’s massively difficult and stressful.
Soil pipe and soil stack (the pipes wot take your waste away to the sewer) are becoming continually blocked (over three years). I have spent about two grand on drain cameras, drain jetting, and £650 of work to fix a slight displacement which “may” be causing it.
This has not fixed it at all. I have had to get someone out twice in a week £350 to jet it.
Now the Drain Engineer No 2 is saying the camera shows another slight displacement which he didn’t think was too bad but which “may” be causing it.
Meanwhile 13 year old has been caught putting a cardboard tube down the toilet one night when he “ran out of paper” (there was loads nearby which I would have happily got). And last night, I found that the toilet wasn’t flushing and I (when I put my hand around the u bend) discovered big wet wedges of toilet paper. He initially said he had used only a little bit then there was what I would call loads.
The drain engineer has told me to pour buckets of water down the external drains every few days.
The house is 130 years old and a mid terrace.
The latest piece of work will involve excavation and drainage work in the yard to fix a displacement near a join, which will come to £1000. The drain fixing work is probably necessary but sometimes it feels like a blank cheque if it’s not resolving the issue.
Does anyone have experience of stopping SEN young people using so much toilet paper?
Is there some sensory reason why a child would be using massive amounts?
At this point, I’m considering marine toilet paper, different types of toilets which wash and dry your bottom, and I am starting to go slightly insane.