oh god toilet blocked-help please

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About 5 days ago one of my little darlings put pretty much half of a toilet roll down there - I left it for probably a day because I couldn't face sorting it (we have another loo!). So I asked me dh to sort it out - envisaging he would REMOVE most of the toilet roll. Anyway he just triend to flush it away (idiot emoticon). Now the pan looks empty of water and when its flushed it fills right up and drains away slowly. What do I do?!! I have this horrible thought that the drain is blocked about ten metres away - so basically need to put something down there to disperse it??? Any help or comments gratefully receieved!

Try getting on a rubber glove and straightening out a wire coathanger and feeling just around the u bend it's probably stuck there in a clump. Fish it out, job done...

If you cant get a wire coat hanger, they are getting rare, tie bin bag around the bottom of amop. Put some water in the pan. Use mop as plunger. That should help dislodge the blockage.

The other thing would be to buy some strong drain cleaner and let it work over night. You can but things such as Mr Muscle etc in most supermarkets.
They are very caustic so wear gloves
Make sure there's no bleach or anything down the pan before use

spirit of salts from your local hardware shop or b&q. Again, be very careful!

I strip off a bendy branch from a tree and use that when mine gets blocked

The best way is take a toilet brush (the circular sort), wrap a carrier bag round it, shove it down and pump it. You may have to do it a fair bit but it really works, I promise you. Much more effective than a coat hanger.

You can get long bendy wires for unblocking drains...or use an old hosepipe. You just need to stick it down and wiggle it around so the water can dissolve the loo-paper bit by bit and suddenly it'll go and it'll all be sorted. Dont' use that vile drain chemical stuff - it's not necessary and is really, really strong, nasty stuff.

I promise you, if it's draining away at all, then all you have to do is break up the loo paper plug.

i flushed a washable nappy down our toilet by mistake (dd2 fell over in the bath just as i was flushing the toilet, i dropped the nappy i was dealing with and only noticed what i'd done as it disappeared out of sight...).

i filled the nappy bucket with water (our mop bucket is the same size though, if you don't have a nappy bucket, about 9 litres i think), flushed the toilet and poured the nappy bucket into the toilet at the same time from a great height. this created enough force to force the nappy out of the pipe it was stuck in and into the drain where dp was waiting. lucky him.