HELP!!! How to clear the clogged toilet...

**InsaneApache** · 09-16-2010, 08:44

Originally Posted by Gregoshi

Okay, about dozen bits of advice, half of them lethal.

Indeedy.

Having some experience of water treatment I can confirm that mixing sodium hypochlorite with other chemicals, especially bases, is not a good idea.

**Cute Wolf** · 09-16-2010, 11:03

Ok... so last night, I do the coathanger trick (with an old metal coathanger)...
and unscrew the toilet bowl, to get acess directly to the pipe hole without the toilet bowl interfering... (gosh! I still don't believe I've done that last night)

put the coathanger to poke the "fecal maters that clogged in" (thanks God, the chemichal stinks I pour yesterday still covers much)..... and guess what that I found.... a small... rat feet.... and tail segments

so... THAT DAMN STUPID RAT DIES IN MY TOILET PIPE!!!

you know... after learn about that, I immediatlely opened the sodium hydroxide and sodium hypochlorite, pour all of them into the hole, and immediately add some hot water on top of it.... a thick fumes immediately occur, and I quickly wash myself, lock the bathroom door, wash myself again in the backyard, took some clothes, and go to my neighbour's house....

this afternoon, looks like the problem is gone, but chlorine smells still linger on the air... so this night, looks like I can't sleep in my house as well....

Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito

Does your apartment have it's own septic tank/leach field system or is it connected to a city sewer line? Are the pipes cast iron *bad news* or plastic?

Septic tanks should be cleaned every 3-5 years for optimal performance. Old systems using cast iron pipe clog easily over time because the inside of the pipe is very rough with stalactite-like projections of cast-iron that snag toilet paper & other solid matter that eventually narrows and clogs the pipe. If the plumbing snake doesn't work you probably have more than a simple clog problem, and fixing it will probably be more involved than you can accomplish by yourself. The expression "up

's creek without a paddle" springs to mind. I wouldn't pay the landlord a cent to fix his sewer problem, that's his responsibility. You might want to start looking for another place to rent.

Playing alchemist and combining caustic chemicals with no knowledge of what you are doing can lead to serious injury or death, don't do it.

It wasn't apartment, it was small, one story ground bound house... and "city sewer line"? I don't knew if such network is exist in Indonesia

, maybe in Jakarta we had, but what we have here is normal septic tank lies somewhere under the house...

and that was my own fault actually, forgot to either close the toilet lid, or the bathroom door and got a rat plug itself inside the pipe...

PS : I'm chemistry student myself

Originally Posted by Gregoshi

Okay, about dozen bits of advice, half of them lethal.

.

Yeah.... I found it the hard way... and use a very - very potentially lethal way to solve that (Sodium Hydroxide + Hypochlorite + hot water = very basic (in chemistry sense) corrosive oxidizing liquid + fumes of Chlorine, gas weapon in WW I)... if not because that damn rat...

**Fragony** · 09-16-2010, 11:26

You didn't even kill the rat before you ate it? That's animal cruelty

**pevergreen** · 09-16-2010, 11:38

Originally Posted by Fragony

You didn't even kill the rat before you ate it? That's animal cruelty

**naut** · 09-16-2010, 12:15

NOOOOOOOOOO! Frags!

**Cute Wolf** · 09-16-2010, 12:24

Originally Posted by Fragony

You didn't even kill the rat before you ate it? That's animal cruelty

maybe when I drunk?

Seriously now, I rarely seen rats in my house, but that proves I should cleaning my house again...

**ELITEofWARMANGINGERYBREADMEN88** · 09-16-2010, 12:50

Hot water softens up your brown chocolate in the bowl!

**Gregoshi** · 09-16-2010, 14:02

I'm glad nothing bad came from your chemical "experiment". I do wonder about the condition of the clog? Any status update on that? I'd hate to think you nearly killed yourself for nothing.

**Fragony** · 09-16-2010, 14:24

Originally Posted by Gregoshi

I'm glad nothing bad came from your chemical "experiment". I do wonder about the condition of the clog? Any status update on that? I'd hate to think you nearly killed yourself for nothing.

We call it stuuksoda here, reacts with water, gets really hot we use it to clean rusted machine parts. It won't do anything to a bowl or industrial pipes, it's perfectly safe if you use COLD water Cute Wolf.