Coin down the toilet

[nottheplan]

My 3 yo ds put a coin down the toilet. It has been there a few days now. We can't retrieve it as it is quite far back & under. I've been putting bleach in every day to see if that would help but it just looks like a permanent poo stain. Has anyone got any remedies? Has it happened to anyone else?! Please say it has 🙈

Use a wire hanger to hook it out?

When you empty the 2 ltr bottle of cola in , chuck in a packet of mentos as well.

You will not be worried about a clingy 2p any more.

crazy this has gone on so long?
just get a full bucket of water tip that down lav. there’s much more force from a greater height. I use this method to clear poo smears off bowl b4 actually sticking products etc. down to give complete cleaning.

This.
Just put a glove on and pick it out….sorted.

Don't even think about plunging your marigold-ed hands in - find a flexible twig in the garden and hey, presto!

New 2p coins are magnetic.

Lower a high strength magnet down on a piece of string. It will attract the coin. Then pull it out.

If it is an old 2p coin you are stuffed though. I don't know what the date of changeover was. Maybe you can stick your head in the toilet to read the date.

Do not flush the toilet while your head is in it.

Empty the water, chuck a dozen French bangers in then close the lid. The coin will no longer be a problem.

'Copper' coins are plated mild steel so will rust

https://www.tiktok.com/@benedicttown/video/7492812229729930518

for all the full fat coke fans

Well that explains why OP hasn't replied again

She's dead of course!

Edit - ops sorry mean to quote @IaltagDhubh

You've actually put coke down OP?

It's not wedged fast, get a butter knife and praise it off.

Oh my goodness that's a blast from the past!!! My bookmarks took my halfway through, I'd obviously been watching it 16 years ago and never gone back to it.

just reread all the OP's messages and was delighted with the ending!!

Well I'm glad to say either the cheap Tesco own brand cola or the vinegar did the trick and it has been dislodged. Onto the harpic now to remove the stain, thanks to all those who helped 🤗 Laughing at the comment saying to leave it there for the boys to aim at , if it didnt look like poo I may have 😆

If it's too far back to reach with your hand get something to hook round it to drag it forward - an unbent wire coat hanger would be good.

It can't be adhered to the porcelain because of the water so I assume 'stuck' means she can't reach it and flushing etc doesn't dislodge it.

Don't plunge it because you don't want the coin going into the pipe/sewer because of its weight it won't move along and you risk incremental bits of hair,loo paper and shit lodging on it and then building to form a block.

If you are really desperate, other option is to bail out the water from the u-bend, soak up the residue with cloths until it's dry and use a vacuum cleaner with flexible micro hose attachment.

great result!
who knew mumsnet was so helpful, hive mind

Hurray @nottheplan . The power of MN - better than bleach! 😂

It may be being held in place by a suction effect, in which case the good news is that the bottom of your loo is probably super-smooth and clean (maybe you live in a soft water area — I regularly put vinegar down to give it a good soak and get the limescale off).

Could you maybe unbend a coat hanger to make something to poke the coin with? It will come loose with enough stabbing.

Edit: I see you fixed it. Congratulations!

I just read the thread (thank you!) but it’s made me wonder if I’m the only person not to know about hair bobble plates. I wrap our hair bobbles around the hairbrush handle.

sooooooo wicked

We had very bad limescale, OH read that Coke gets rid of it. It doesn't, there's now brown limescale

cross post

try lemon and bicarb @Guinessandafire

How can it be STUCK? What with?

This doesn't sound as bad as the LOL doll that the kids decided to flush down ours. Reached down to pull her out but she was so wedged down, I accidentally beheaded her trying to pull her out, then the body was completely stuck. Couldn't get a grip of her spindly neck, which was now half way up the fecking u-bend, and was too embarrassed to call a plumber as on my way to get a plunger, one of the kids then took a humongous crap in said toilet, which was now also stuck... Sat there, unable to get past the headless corpse. Ended up buying a ton of drain unblocker and caustic soda, and spent days trying to melt/disintergrate her body which was now in a sea of stinking, brown, shitty water. How the feck the pipes survived this whole ordeal I'll never know, but about a week (and ten thousand flushes) later, the water was clear, it stopped rising to the rim, after every flush, and there was no sign of miss sassy pants. I assume her extremities must have dissolved away enough in the cocktail of chemicals and shite for her to push her way along on her final journey to the sewers. I felt bad, but there was no way I was getting a plumber out to see this shit show. Turns out the kids had cut her hair and drew on her face, which is why they were embarrassed and flushed her... And the head was the only part that survived to tell the tale. #silentwitness

If you can see it you should be able to reach it, surely. Bleach won't make it go away!