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

**Tellos Athenaios** · 09-16-2010, 14:38

sodium hipochlorite and sodium hydroxide

Ehrm Fragony I think you missed the part about mixing those two. That's essentially bleach in salt form with lye and he dissolved both in hot water. It produces chlorine gas, and lot's of it. It goes only a bit faster if you use hot water rather than cold water, but the reaction is aggressive enough to warm up the bowl a lot once it gets going.

**Cute Wolf** · 09-16-2010, 14:47

now, I was in at local mall, sipping cola and eating fried chickens... trying to forgot all the mess who await me at home, but the situatiion is clear, the toilet was allready unclogged... and the chlorine gas is still on the air...

**rory_20_uk** · 09-16-2010, 15:12

Originally Posted by Cute Wolf

now, I was in at local mall, sipping cola and eating fried chickens... trying to forgot all the mess who await me at home, but the situatiion is clear, the toilet was allready unclogged... and the chlorine gas is still on the air...

Wet some towels / paper. Chlorine quickly dissolves and is heavier than air. You might end up with things soaked with concentrated hydrochloric acid though... You might want to start off with an alkaline solution to alleviate this.

**InsaneApache** · 09-16-2010, 16:09

Sunlight is good as well.

I should have cottoned on to the water as well.

Doh!

**Gregoshi** · 09-16-2010, 16:30

That clogged toilet is starting to look like a minor problem.

**Ironside** · 09-16-2010, 15:05

Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios

Ehrm Fragony I think you missed the part about mixing those two. That's essentially bleach in salt form with lye and he dissolved both in hot water. It produces chlorine gas, and lot's of it. It goes only a bit faster if you use hot water rather than cold water, but the reaction is aggressive enough to warm up the bowl a lot once it gets going.

Mixing those is safe (while replacing sodium hydroxide with an acid is not). Sodium hipochlorite creates poisonous clorine compounds reacting with urine and some other organic substances though.

**InsaneApache** · 09-16-2010, 15:09

Again years ago, in a former life, I had the job of changing the chlorine gas bottles. One day the lead washer split and I got, what they call a 'belt'. It felt like I had been kicked in the chest by a horse. That taught me not to take shortcuts and not wear the respirator.

Cleaned my teeth a treat though.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 09-16-2010, 17:07

Originally Posted by Ironside

Mixing those is safe (while replacing sodium hydroxide with an acid is not). Sodium hipochlorite creates poisonous clorine compounds reacting with urine and some other organic substances though.

EDIT: Noted. Though neither salt will be pure and contain traces of their `active' parts in water, which given HCO- being so unstable is a risky thing to play with.

**Hosakawa Tito** · 09-16-2010, 19:40

At least the rat had the decency to die before you sat down to take care of business. Nothing more vicious than a trapped rat with only your dangling family jewels between it and freedom...oh, I'm gonna have a nightmare tonight.