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Location: Was Midvalley Oregon; Now Eastside Seattle area
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^thats a joke. not intended to be political. Common sense should alert adults not to put hygienic stuff down the throne or any other stuff. Now days, it's the homeless, druggies and mentals who intentionally plug up toilets or destroy them.
What did OP find solved his problem?
My mother's sewage drain pipe was clogged from roots, that needed to be routered out every year, and eventually we spent $10,000 to burst the asphalt-cement pipe, and thread in a plastic line. We also had to bust up 10 feet of the basement to access the pipe and get an easement from the neighbor because the pipe ran downhill thru the length of his property to main. This was in ~2010. A 55 year old build.
I saw informercial for these toilet clog cannon, where you stick the curved "mouth" of the unit into the toilet hole and it fires off a strong beam of water (or air?) to force the clog thru the channel.
Does this work well? I imagine for something softer it's OK (informercial uses a piece of cloth). But if it were something hard, like a Thomas train toy, could this be disastrous?
Hold on a minute, OP!
We're 67 posts into this (I know, it's 73), and you spring a "Thomas train toy" as a potential culprit? You may have bit off, more that you can chew with this, now.
^thats a joke. not intended to be political. Common sense should alert adults not to put hygienic stuff down the throne or any other stuff. Now days, it's the homeless, druggies and mentals who intentionally plug up toilets or destroy them.
What did OP find solved his problem?
My mother's sewage drain pipe was clogged from roots, that needed to be routered out every year, and eventually we spent $10,000 to burst the asphalt-cement pipe, and thread in a plastic line. We also had to bust up 10 feet of the basement to access the pipe and get an easement from the neighbor because the pipe ran downhill thru the length of his property to main. This was in ~2010. A 55 year old build.
Someone we knew returned from a river camping trip and thought it would be good to empty the “boom box” down his toilet, apparently in one big dumping.
Big bill for a major clog that required clearing AND damage repairs!
Well now it's taking a different turn.
Try that super plunger cause it's cheap.
Very little chance, but why not.
Now with this new twist I guess you should get prepared for a large bill. No bleach would help I believe. Concentrated sulfuric acid could help if you only have secret documents in the toilet, but not big chunk of plastic...
Someone we knew returned from a river camping trip and thought it would be good to empty the “boom box” down his toilet, apparently in one big dumping.
Big bill for a major clog that required clearing AND damage repairs!
If it was anything like the boom boxes (we called them rocket boxes or the Groover because they were modified ammo boxes with a DIY seat) I've faced off with at the end of a river trip (ours tended to be over a week long) there's no way I would set foot inside my house with one long enough to reach the bathroom. We had the closest dump station to our take outs marked on a map in red block letters and headed straight to it!
Last edited by Parnassia; 03-05-2022 at 03:30 PM..
If it was anything like the boom boxes (we called them rocket boxes or the Groover because they were modified ammo boxes with a DIY seat) I've faced off with at the end of a river trip (ours tended to be over a week long) there's no way I would set foot inside my house with one long enough to reach the bathroom. We had the closest dump station to our take outs marked on a map in red block letters and headed straight to it!
I don’t know if his was the rocket box type or the DIY pipe type that can be made in different sizes. I have one of the latter, but the way I used it was to put my Wag Bags, sealed up, inside it and then discard those intact at the dumpsters where it was allowed. In other words, I just stored them in the poop pipe during the trip. Two layers of barrier are better than one, belt and suspenders.
Later on, to save money, I made my own wag bag knockoffs. There was a Montana company that sold the powder in bulk quantities.
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If it was anything like the boom boxes (we called them rocket boxes or the Groover because they were modified ammo boxes with a DIY seat) I've faced off with at the end of a river trip (ours tended to be over a week long) there's no way I would set foot inside my house with one long enough to reach the bathroom. We had the closest dump station to our take outs marked on a map in red block letters and headed straight to it! 
