Mortified - please help, loo not flushing! I’m

[qq123]

Staying at relatives. I’ve just gone to the loo for a number 2 and first flush didn’t get rid of it all, so went to flush again.
it’s one of those loo’s with a push button, however the second time it hasn’t flushed but I can hear the sound of running water continuously.

god I’m mortified I tried waiting a bit longer then pushing the button to flush again but it still doesn’t work

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And this reader, is why you shouldn't have a toilet brush

You use the brush end. Why would you use the handle end?

@samarrange I was going to say the same thing about smashing up the poo 😁

For those concerned about the toilet brush, at least it’s not someone’s toothbrush 🤣

This is why I do nit have a loo brush in the guest loo!

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I have one of these toilets. Thumping the cistern tends to help reset the float, so the trickle stops.

Because a brush that has been used to smash up poo is impossible to get even close to clean (unless you are about to get rid of your dishwasher and put it in there for its final cycle), whereas the last little bits will rinse right off the smooth plastic handle.

How can you have to to adulthood without knowing this @qq123 ?? ?? It's pretty basic household stuff.

The other trick advised by PPs upthread is to gently lift the whole lid of the cistern up, and that will reset the filter thingy inside the cistern.

Ew at the toilet brush suggestion. Wash the handle where? Hopefully with the water from a flush in the loo, not in the sink.

I remember I was at a work community hall event with 1 loo men and women were queued up for. When I went in someone had left a gigantic log. I was only 25 so was just concerned about how this would look.

It wouldn't flush. The power of the flush was weak. I chopped it up with the toilet brush trying not to gag. I was very hungover and desperate for a wee. I remember how disgusting the sight of someone else's turd wrapped round a toilet brush was even now. I remember the flush did get rid of a fair amount but there were multiple remnants. I just left and said that had nothing to do with me. The toilet brush wasn't in the best shape. I did the best I could with the flush water available. Horrible experience.

Obviously you should carry a poo knife for the big ones.

If you can't figure out how to clean the toilet brush, you probably shouldn't be allowed out unaccompanied. ffs.

You beat me too it…. Very unthoughtful of the owners not to have left one there in case it was needed.

I think some of these persistent logs actually need an axe. I've seen some akin to a python and always seem to be the person who goes in after the offending depositer.

Washing up liquid tends to break down toilet logs. If there is none to hand try bubble bath or shampoo. If you can add a bin full of hot water that helps.

These push button, water saving, flushes are one of the modern innovations that look good, but are worse than what they have replaced. They regularly take more than one flush to clear the bowl, cancelling out any water saving benefits, they jam more easily than the older style flush, when they break, the solution is to remove and replace the whole mechanism, on older systems you could clean the valve, replace the washer or the ball float. Yet we are all supposed to believe that the new systems are better fir the environment. We have been conned. Thomas Crapper will be turning in the place he was interred.

Had this issue at home. Hot, soapy water sorted it. Next time go into loo with a hot brew

Yes it's almost certainly this issue.
I've recently had to have the syphon replaced in my cistern which works perfectly now.

You should have flung it out of the window 🤣🫢

She knows how to use amd clean it, she's just saying after a poo 💩 has been cut up with a toilet brush then it's going to be difficult to remove all the poo from the brush... the bristles 🤢

Not that hard. You swizzle it while flushing.

I would have just called Leather Face to pop round.

Get a brush and push it around the bend.