Agghh! Macerator toilet appears blocked.

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Water rises upto near rim of bowl. Can I throw some liquid unblocker down or will that ruinthe macerator?

Noooo, don't put chemicals down it. You will need to disconnect it and manually remove the blockage or even better call a plumber!

I had this idea that plumbers don't really like to sort out macerators... too dirty a job. Dd1 swears she hasn't put anything 'untoward' down there.

there are a small number of plumbers who are prepared to work with macerators.

They lead sad, lonely lives, shunned by others, in their large mansions.

Ours did this because one of the DCs had put too much toilet paper down. Our plumber had some sort of liquid that he poured down, left for a very specific number of minutes and flushed through. Worked a treat, but I think it only works if the blockage is ordinary loo roll.

we think our two yr old put baby wipes down ours. we just bought a new one. sorry

I wonder what the liquid was to dissolve? If it's loo roll, won t it just disintegrate over time and flush? Dreading having to pay a huge plumber bill

No idea what is was, I'm afraid. I think the plumber called the manufacture who suggested it. Ours wasn't completely blocked, though. The macerator would start by itself and then regurgitate dirty water. Didn't fill the toilet to the brim but higher than normal level.

DH disconnected the one in the ensuite in our last house and (having donned rubber gloves and a white protective onesie, lol!) unblocked it himself. Typically this happened a couple of days before we completed on our sale and I was too bloody mean to call out an expensive plumber as we'd doesn't too much on the place already and I was convinced we'd have to fork out for a new one.

Think ours was caused by posh quilted loo roll!

No more macerators for me......

spent not doesn't......blooming autocorrect!

Better a bucket in the garden than a macerator.

Ours did this a few weeks ago. It was because DD had turned off the macerator when she used the loo (she hates the noise) and forgotten to turn it back on. The toilet then got used a few more times before anyone realised.
We managed to flush it a few times with the macerator switched back on and it cleared itself. I did have to mop the floor though...

surely you mean "DD did have to mop the floor though"

She's only just turned 4; she'd have mopped the walls with the cat or something, PigletJohn

ah.

Maybe next time.