My 5 year old is a hurricane and then some. He's causing us so much money issues. The boy destroys everything lol. He has special needs and certain tendencies. Well this time he has an infatuation with the potty and seeing things get flushed. Well we've spent so far this year atleast a grand on repairs around the house do to him and we are very broke. Our car needs repairs and is just sitting outside because we can't afford to fix it. Now he clogged the potty and we've tried everything to unclog whatever he lodged in there with no avail. PLEASE is there anyone that knows a good but fairly CHEAP plumber??????????
Over the summer my potty got realy cloged up. My husband called a plumber and found out how much it would cost just to have him show up and look at the problem let alone fix it and it was a LOT. He then called Home Depot and found out how much it was to rent a power snake and it was really afordable. I can't remember exactly how much it was but I know it was under $100. I hope this helps, good luck.
Hi J..
You don't need to call a plumber. You can do this one on your own. I promise it isn't hard and it won't cost you much either. I know from first hand experience. I had two "flushers" and taught myself the wonderful art of toilet unclogging while I was still single. My little scientists, by the way, flushed everything from a shower head to my engagement ring.
Okay, so the first thing you have to do is get a new wax ring. You can get that at any hardware store for a couple bucks. Next, go home shut off the water to your toilet by turning that little knob down below the tank and empty as much of the water out of the toilet as you can. After that, unscrew the bolts that are on either side of your toilet and lift the toilet into the tub. If you aren't particularly strong, get help for this. Yes, it can get a little messy, but it's not too bad. Pull up the wax ring from the floor and clean off any of the remaining wax residue. Put the new wax ring in place of the old one and turn your attention to the toilet itself.
Now that you have toilet up and in the tub, you'll need to push whatever is blocking it from the underneath side back into the bowl. Invariably, this is the way those little buggers will get back out. If you're hands are small and you're flexible, you can actually stick your hand up the bottom of your toilet to do this. If not, get something flexible, but sturdy and shove that baby in there. Most often you won't even have to work very hard to get the lodged item out because by going from this direction, you're pushing it from the small space into a large one.
Once you have the object out, clean off the wax from the underneath side of your toilet and carefully lower it into place on your floor. You'll want to try to get this right the first time so you might need a spotter to guide you. If you get it wrong and have to pick it back up, you could end up needing a new wax ring. That wax ring is what keeps the water (and other nastiness) from seeping out from under your toilet into your bathroom. I've found that it isn't as precise a job as plumbers want you to believe, but do try to be careful.
Replace the bolts, turn the water back on And viola! You've just fixed your first toilet. Now you're ready for drywall repairs... or at least that's how it worked in our house. : )
Hope this helps!
P.S. Another handy little thing you can get from the hardware for a few dollars is a toilet seat lock. They didn't have them around when my boys were little, but at least they are there for you!
look up on the internet how to do it and give it a try. You can find instructions on how to do anything on the internet! Whats the harm? But make sure you turn the water off first.
Ive even unclogged the toliet with a wire hanger. although a snake is the plumbers tool, but if you can't afford to hire one or get a snake, wire hangers work too. Or like mentioned you may have to take it down to unclog it. I know that if I can do it, its achievable by anyone. Good luck.
Rotor Rooter guys are wonderful for these issues. I also have a specail needs child. She went thru that phase and they were wonderful about coming out to our house we were practically on a first name basis with him. As for the child Red and Green choices work wonderful for us, the specail needs preschool put us on to this techinque. It takes a while to work but once it does its great. Good behavior is a green choice and everything stays the same as always or really good green choices deserves a reward of some kind. Red choices something is taken away and put in red for us here its computer time if she's really being a terror then the computer is in red for the evening or until she earns back with green choices. Beleive me it takes a while but it really works.
I unplugged our pot a few times. Last time was a plastic cup my son tried to flush, it wouldn't come out even with a snake, so I had to unbolt the pot and get it out the back way.
Its not hard to do, just 2 or 3 bolts and water line, and thats about it.
Did he say what was flushed down?
Sounds like a handfull.
R.
One of the best plumbers I know is Robert Price from Price Plumbing. I'm not sure what he would charge to unclog a toilet, but I would give him a call ###-###-####.
We have had to remove many hot wheels from the toliet. One thing you can do is take the toliet off, and turn it upside down and put a garden hose thru the bottom and shoot water thru to the top and it should release the item.
