Look, I know this is gross but just HOW do you get a, ahem, floater to go down?!?

[Enid]

Because they keep appearing in my downstairs loo. Have flushed this baby about four times but no luck.

I am NOT scooping it out.

Short of insisting dd2 only EVER goes upstairs to do a poo, is there a failsafe method?

sorry no advice but am pmsl.

PMSL too, can you weight it down with tissue??

I have peopel coming round in half an hour!!! have bashed it with loo brush

its a persistent little bugger

get a bucket of water and throw that down the loo - it should take the floater with it......

(here speaks the voice of experience - how do such big ppos come out of such small people? )

yes you have to swamp it with loo paper

open the lid of your cistern and add extra water-as much as you can without an overflow.then it will provide a super flush and hopefully get rid of it.
otherwise try and break it into pieces with loo brush.if you can it will help it flush.

now forget that i ever posted this.

second the bucket idea

cant do the loo roll have tried that it blocks the loo

will try water

its like a babies arm

lmao
Break it up with a stout twig.

lol!!!!!!

Get DD to scoop it out?

Sorry, am really smiling at this!

if you do the bucket thing, you have to get momentum going when you throw the water in (our loo stopped flushing a while back and we had to do this!!) - aim for the back/bottom of the loo and hopefully, the momentum of the water will carry it out!

fab its gone at last

poured bucket AND flushed at the same time

brilliant

have lit diptyque candle and am trying to put whole sorry episode behind me

Great news Enid! Hope you enjoy your visit

Threads like these are why I love mumsnet. (I know that was crap grammar.)

PMSL

PMSL at sobernow's dd2

pmsl!!!

it was the baby arm comment that got me

For future reference, speaking as an ex-landlady and veteran of unflushable logs:

1 don't use your loo brush to break it up - you'll have to clean it afterwards. Use a stick that you can wrap in a carrier bag and throw away after.

2 Very hot water can be effective at breaking up the floater. Make sure it's not boiling and pour it into the water over the turd rather than down the sides of the pan as you don't want the pan to crack.

I'll use this as my specialist subject when I go on Mastermind I think.

DH, who is an engineer, claims that the best way to do this is to put plenty of loo paper on top of said article. Allow loo paper to get fully soaked. It will then wrap itself around the article, increasing its drag co-efficient and will flush away.

Extensive trials conducted in the Issymum household suggest that DH's hypothesis is correct.

Shall I post this on the 'Daily Tips' section of the Home Page?

Sorry - I've just seen the loo paper-blockage bit. You don't need a lot of loo paper, just enough to increase the drag!

Is your DD quite petite Enid? I ask because my DD is a tiny 6 yr old but when she forgets to flush the result is shocking -DP usually comes out of the bathroom saying "Quick, check DD hasn't lost any of her arms or legs!"