A plate has fallen down the back of the loo - how can I get it out?

[ahundredtimes]

And not just any plate - this is a plate painted by ME for dd's hair bands! I did it when she was painting a mug for dh- the man was so impressed he put it in the window. [preen]

It's annoying.

Now the cistern of the loo is built into a tongue and groove type wall affair, and can only be accessed from the top. The plate has fallen down, below the cistern, onto the floor below.

I can't reach it, nobody can reach it.

Any ideas?

[snigger]

ROFL Lost Prophet - basic helix?loop?helix transcription - isn't that another name for fabric loops?

[snigger]

That was from your link, BTW!

[LostProphet]

[ahundredtimes]

Super glue on a stick!

Shall I try it? Will the stick always be stuck to my plate?

Hang on, I'll go and see if we've got super glue.

[JustKeepScreamingInFear]

How about mini versions of these guys?

Or give the hamster their kit?

[LaMonsterWeaselwolf]

Have you got a two long hollow tubes?

Get a long bit of string (at least twice the length of each) and thread the folded in half string through each so there's a fairly big enough loop at the end for the plate and both ends of the string and poking out the top so you can pull it tight.

Voila a make-shift granny-grabber thing. But if you use both it might be a bit more stable and the plate less likely to fall out...

[JustKeepScreamingInFear]

I meant guinea pig, obviously.

[covertmission]

mini plunger, I'm thinking of one of those clear plastic jobbies that hold your DC's bath toys to the wall by the bath. You can't suck through those, but if you attached the external nubbin to some cord and sent the sucker down slightly moistened and then squidged it onto the plate with a rod of dowelling then it could hold.

[pania]

By material I mean fabric, like a tea towel or something. If you use a pole, will you be able to pull up the plate and then get it out without turning it sideways?

[SharpMolarBear]

Nooo don't poo poo any ideas while the plate is still at large....

[ahundredtimes]

You are all brilliant.

I am going to go and see if I have anything to make any of these out of.

[snigger]

I'm so invested in the fate of this plate it's frightening.

[snigger]

[mrsmaidamess]

Get something long...piece of bamboo from the garden? Put a large blob of blu tack/wrap sticky sided tape on the end and using as much force as you can muster press it onto plate, preferably under the lip (which stops the hair bobbles falling off)

THEN you are going to have to, in the manner of The Crystal Maze (but preferably NOT wearing a jumpsuit and huge Boggly glasses) drag the plate up the wall inside the tongue and groove.Someone else may have to reach down with something to get it up to the top.

If you lived near me I'd come down and do it for you.

We're all on tenterhooks here. Its like when that kid got stuck down the well in America.

[thesockmonsterofdoom]

it's worse than the kid and the well, this is a hand made piece of history. for hairboobles.

[mrsmaidamess]

hairboobles!

[snigger]

Anyway, why don't you keep your hairboobles on the floor or in your dressing gown pocket like the rest of us?

[covertmission]

gosh maidamess, I had forgotten about that kid. It is almost excatly like that isn't it. Although I think we, the assistors, need to have a sheen of sweat, and probably snickers bars.

[ahundredtimes]

I am back to report that the hoover DOES NOT work. Nowhere near.

Though it did retrieve a comb.

so that's nice.

I think blu tack might not be strong enough, but am like the up inside of the wall thing.

Okay will report back, going to look for super glue.

[LostProphet]

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[thesockmonsterofdoom]

sorry very bad typing due to the fact that I cant actually feel my fingers.

[snigger]

FGS get some fabric before Prophet POPS

[mrsmaidamess]

I think we need to record a charity song to help hundred in her time of need. It may also help other hairbooble plates from meeting the same end.

[snigger]

[JustKeepScreamingInFear]

title suggestions?

oh lonely plate....

oh hairbooble plate how i miss thee....