How to quickly and effectively eliminate blockage in the toilet?

The problem of cleaning a clogged drain in the toilet periodically occurs in any resident of an apartment or house. Therefore, the question of how to clean the toilet is practical information that will allow you to get rid of the blockage with your own hands. There are several tools and tools with which you can clean a clogged drain:

• plunger;
• acid;
• alkali;
• improvised means;
• industrial facilities;
• cable;
• other tools.

We use what we have at home

A clogged toilet seat can be cleaned independently by the means that every household has - vinegar, vinegar essence, baking soda or caustic soda. It should be said right away that vinegar and soda can remove only a little pollution or help soften the cork from the waste for subsequent mechanical cleaning with a plunger or plumbing cable.

Mode of application:

• pour 150 grams of baking soda into the toilet bowl (about 5 tablespoons);
• pour 1 liter of 9% vinegar or 130 ml of essence;
• wait for the reaction to pass;
• pour a large amount of boiling water.

If after that the water leaves in full, then nothing more needs to be done. If the water stagnates, drains poorly, you need to break the blockage with a plunger or a special cable.

Tip

If you clean the toilet from time to time with vinegar and soda for prevention, then no dirt will accumulate in the drain system and you will not have to use potent chemicals or call a master.

Caustic (caustic soda, caustic soda) - a strong alkali. It more effectively fights deposits in the sewer system.

How to eliminate caustic clogging in the toilet?

• Prepare the solution in a large non-aluminum container: cold water - 5 liters, caustic soda - 2 kg.
• Pour it into the toilet.
• Wait from 5 minutes to several hours. The time depends on the degree of clogging and the location of the clog. In a siphon, it dissolves faster, and for congestion in the pipes you need to give more time.
• Pour a large volume (up to 10 l) of hot water.

Before making a solution with caustic soda, you need to take precautions - put on work clothes that cover the surface of the body as much as possible, and rubber gloves.

How to clean the toilet with a plunger?

The most common method to clean the toilet flush yourself - pumping a plunger. For this, both a conventional and a pneumatic plunger are suitable. The difference in their application - pneumatic creates a greater impact hammer, so it copes with pushing the mud plug faster.

If the toilet is clogged, it must be cleaned in the sequence described below.

• Check for visible debris, and if there is one, remove it.
• Install a plunger over the drain. Make sure that the rubber edges fit most tightly to the drain neck, blocking air access.
• Press the handle of the mechanical plunger or the pneumatic piston several times.
• Pull plunger out sharply.
• Do this procedure several times (using a mechanical model).

If several procedures did not help, the water in the toilet leaves poorly, which means that a serious blockage has accumulated in the pipe. Perhaps a foreign object got there, or the accumulated small dirt was compressed and firmly stuck to the walls. In this case, you need to move on to more radical measures - the use of potent chemicals or plumbing cable. You can combine these two methods and supplement the chemical cleaning with a mechanical one.

Chemicals

There are toilet cleaners of various price categories on sale. Not always the most expensive composition is the most effective.

Consider what funds are presented on the Russian market.

• "Mole" is one of the means of the budget segment. Despite the low price, well removes blockage in the toilet. It contains caustic soda, but its effect is enhanced by surfactant components and other additives. Available in powder and gel form. It dissolves fat and solid biowaste, including hair and fish scales, trapped in the drainage system. Does not destroy plastic, cast-iron and steel pipes.
• Vortex Draft is a more expensive option, available as a liquid. The main active ingredients are caustic soda, active chlorine (labarraca water), and surfactant components. It has the same effect on blockages as the "Mole". Safe for any type of pipe.
• Tiret has a similar effect and composition with Vortex Draft.

Tip

For cleaning plastic sewer pipes, give preference to liquid or gel. Insoluble particles of the powder can get stuck at the joints and corrode the sealing gum, and the liquid leaves when washed with water, not lingering in one place.

How to break a cable clog?

Plumbing cable - a coiled spring of several layers of steel wire, equipped with a Z-shaped handle. Each layer is wound in the direction opposite to the previous one, which allows to transmit the torsion moment and provide the necessary flexibility. The maximum length of such a tool can be 100 meters. For domestic needs - to break a blockage at home - they buy a cable with a length of 2.5 to 5 meters.

How to clean the clog in the toilet with a cable?

• The end of the cable is lowered into the toilet bowl and pushed all the way.
• The handle rotates in one direction until the cable rotates so as to pass a bend. When turning the handle with the other hand, hold the cable.
• After the cable rests in a stopper from pollution, it is necessary to continue to turn the handle.
• If you have doubts about what the end of the cable rested against - the next bend of the pipe or blockage, you need to get it by scrolling the handle in the opposite direction to the original one. If there are lumps of debris at the end of the steel wire, you need to remove them and repeat the procedure.
• Feeling that the cork has moved, do not stop, you need to move on, pushing the cork into a wide drain pipe.

Tip

To clean the drain with plastic parts, plugs are put on the ends of the cable so that it does not damage the pipes. If this is not done, do-it-yourself cleaning of the sewer may end badly - you will have to change part of the drainage system.

Which method is better to use?

What to do if the toilet clogged: apply chemistry or mechanical cleaning methods? The answer to this question depends on why the water does not leave or runs off badly. If a foreign object has got into the toilet, then it can be pushed with a cable or plunger further into a wide sewer pipe (septic tank). If a cork is formed from hair, grease and waste or deposits on the walls of the pipe, then removing it yourself with the help of chemistry will be effective. You can combine cleaning using special tools and a cable - then the result will be clean drain walls, which will not cling to small debris.

There are also contaminants that cannot be removed using the above tools. For example, if during the repair the remnants of various plaster and putty mortars were poured into the toilet, then no chemistry can cope with them. Theoretically, it exists, but in practice, what dissolves such garbage will corrode the pipes themselves. Be careful not to let foreign objects or mixtures with insoluble residue get into the toilet, do not forget about the preventive cleaning of the drain, then you will not have to clean the clogged toilet in emergency mode when the water does not leave at all.