Toilet will not unblock. Have tried pretty much everything.

[Taikoo]

Posting here for traffic.
My toilet has been blocked for a week now.

I'm not sure if I blocked it, or if it was the people in the apartment upstairs.
If it was me who blocked it, then it was some toilet roll and poo. Nothing abnormal.
No-one else lives here.

The toilet bowl takes hours to drain.
And then if more water is added, the toilet bowl merely fills all the way back up again.
Then it takes another 6 hours or more to fully drain.
I'm at my wits end.

I have tried:
A plunger
Hot water and washing up liquid
Vinegar and baking soda
A wire hanger.

Nothing works.
I'm skint and can't afford a plumber.

If you're renting contact the landlord and let him sort it out,

With some toilets you have to flush first and then wipe otherwise the toilet paper will create a blockage.

Get your landlord to fix it

When you put the wire hanger down could you feel the blockage? Honestly I'd be getting some elbow length gloves and sticking my hand back to pull it out.

I'd go to the shop and buy the toilet plunger like the one from Amazon link. We once used all sorts of things and tricks to unblock it and nothing worked. Eventually we used a plastic bottle to use it as a plunger and it worked but then bought the toilet plunger.

Find someone (a colleague or neighbour?) that speaks English and ask them to help you contacting the appropriate people, I would suggest those might be your landlord or the person managing your tenancy and whoever manages the building. Have you gone to the flat directly below yours to see if they also have a blocked soil pipe?

Cut the bottom off a 2l bottle of pop or any bottle that's a reasonably tight fit to the bottom of the toilet, but keep the lid on. Use like a plunger. It forces the blockage to move but it's better than a plunger as the air pocket is bigger.

Most high rises in Asia have a management office, go see them and bring them up to the apartment. Either this happens all the time and they know what you do, or they can help your landlord get a plumber in.

I absolutely get that it can be awkward when you don't speak the language and are new - but trust me the management office are your saviours in most things property related.

If you are abroad are you working, can you ask a workmate who speaks the language to help speak to your landlord? Or speak to the neighbours.

@VettiyaIruken

X post, private rent means it's your landlords responsibility anyway! It really doesn't sound like you have to find a way to magic up some cash, which will be a relief for you at least.

This.

I’d stop trying to fix it yourself as there’s a chance you’ll be told you’ve caused some damage

Report it. It might well be a problem with communal pipes.

@OneLinePlease

I think perhaps now is the time to get working on your new language skills.

Google how to ask your neighbours if their loo is blocked and go and start knocking doors.

Then drop the landlord an email.

A couple of months into life abroad you really need to start having these sort of discussions or else you're going to end up very isolated.

The neighbours won't talk to me because I'm western. It will take me a while to learn the new language and alphabet.

Yes, I will have to contact the letting agency, I think.
The landlord is abroad and does not speak English.

Luckily I work in an English speaking workplace so I'm not quite on a desert island just yet.

Surely if you were able to organise living in a new country, sorting out accommodation, being there for 2 months, you can contact the landlord/whoever is necessary to get it sorted? If it's privately rented then there will be other issues down the line which need fixing, so it's whoever would do those things. If you are going to be living in this country on your own, then it's probably a good idea to start learning the language isn't it? Is there anyone else who speaks English there who could help you out? If its not shifting after trying these things then it probably does require a plumber.

Mop with a bag over it and flush the chain

Sorry, that all sounds really harsh, I didn't mean it to! But see this as the kick up the bum you need (I would need one too, I hate trying to speak other languages!) to start learning the language

Bag over a mop always does the trick when my toilets been blocked (son has a habit of using too many toilet wipes)

Do not put any think down the loo , other than liquids.
Empty a bowl of hot water with lots of washing up liquid in. Repeat as often as you can.
This will help the blockage move past what ever bend is clogging it.
Add some bicarbonate of soda down,
Also do the clingfilm over the seat to cause a vacuum. This moves most blockages .

@Taikoo

I'm on the 25th floor.

I know but presumably you can still get to the outside? So have a wander round the bottom of the building you may find the drain lid. It might be hidden under utilities etc though.

But I still stand by it not being you after a month.

When our loo blocked the blockage was way down the soil pipe. It wasn’t totally blocked but was slow draining so we’d think it was fixed and next flush it would fill up again. We had to have the the soil pipe jet blasted to clear the blockage. Could that we the problem?

Get a plastic bag over your hand and unblock like that. When you pull your arm out of toilet, grab the bag and pull inside out to keep all the germs inside, tie up and put in the bin.

I had a badly blocked toilet and the washing up liquid/hot water combo worked for me, but I had to do it four times for it to work. I put around a quarter of a bottle down at a time, left it for 10-30 minutes to give it a chance to start breaking things down, then followed it with a large basin of hot water with more washing up liquid for luck. Do not use boiling water, apparently it can crack your porcelain. I honestly thought it was not going to work initially. It was only after repeating this three times in a row that something started to happen and it took four times total. I also had to repeat this another couple of times over the course of a week as the toilet started to get a bit block again, but eventually it cleared.

Try caustic soda

There is probably a different drainage system for the bath and sink water from the sewage system. You will need to contact the agency because as others have said there will be a shared drainage system.

In some countries it is not uncommon to have loos which cannot have paper put down them, have you checked that it’s ok to put loo roll in the loo?

I use plastic curtain track.

Its flexible but firm enough to go round the u bend.

Just remember which is the handle end and which the pan end!

Ask your upstairs and downstairs neighbours if they’ve got problems.

Just about to say what CatherinedeBourgh said. Which country are you in OP? Google their sewage systems, it could easily be that.