Help! How to unblock a toilet when ..

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... multiple buckets of water poured from a height and toilet flushed doesn’t work? Nothing within poking distance or reach to push out or shove along.

All suggestions gratefully received!

Thanks!

When DS used to lay a dinosaur egg of dark matter copious amounts of bleach did the trick. 😷

What happens when you pour water from a height? Does the pan fill up and overflow? Sometimes leaving it full to the brim for a while works its magic and you get a glorious pop just as you've given up!

Are you pouring or dumping in with force to create a push and suck?

Does it fill up and drain slowly or just stay full?

Pouring in with force, pan filling right up and taking forever to drain.

2 litre plastic bottle full of water. Turn it upside down, push it towards the U bend and squeeze it hard , the water pressure should clear the blockage. Repeat as necessary.

Get a plunger. Or some of that spirit of salt stuff.

If you have a mop with a string type end and u don’t mind wasting it- use as a plunger - quick up and down in the bowl a few times should unblock

It does sound as if it needs plunging. Then try the water thing again.

Just don't use bleach or boiling water you might get suggested.

Wilko's sell a long flexible metal thing (it's nearly 2 metres long) that looks like a shower hose but narrower. It's for sinks really but I have shoved it down the u-bend before now.

kettleful of hot (not boiling) water clears loos here, it kind of dissolves blockages

I second the mop trick. Ds loves blocking the loo and this works a treat.

Squirt of fairy liquid, warm water thrown down, flush and repeat. Always clears by number three.

Washing up liquid breaks down any....er.... fatty deposits in it and makes it easier to flush

Any mop, towel that you don’t mind boil washing/throwing out, big elastic band.

Wrap towel round mop head, secure with elastic band. Plunge away for all you’re worth. It should give a bloody good seal.

This has worked for our work toilet many times. Whoever lays those behemoths - and leaves it for the next person to deal with - should be very ashamed of themselves.

Try a kettle of boiling water, taking care not to touch the sides of the pan with it (so only in the water)

Yes, warm to hot water and shampoo or something similar should do the trick

If you have some tape and strong film make an airtight seal and tape very securely, a bit like the old cling film over the pan joke. Then flush the toilet. The vacuum created will do the job.

Second the mop.
What about coke?

washing powder or washing up liquid and warn water.
assuming it's feeces that are stuck.

Our cleaner at works uses nearly boiling water.

If you've got a plastic bottle and an old wooden spoon/stick you can make a plunger. Cut the bottle in half, stick goes in the small drinking opening and then duct tape in place. Then just use like a plunger. It works.

Get a piece of electrical trunking as it's bendy but firm. Shove it round the ubend and pull up and down. I've been doing that for years with great success.

Bleach and very hot water and a husband. I'm never getting divorced.

If it's not totally blocked I'd just keep trying the water from a height. Last time ours blocked that didn't work so I was going to come back to it with the plunger after DS's nap, but whilst I was getting him to sleep I heard it clear 👌

This makes for fascinating reading (yes I'm a bit weird) I'm desperate to know which of these tips, if any, worked for you