Don't Use Drain Snake in Toilet. Best Way to Unclog Toilet Bowl

how many times in your life have you come to the bathroom opened up the lid and you see that it's totally backed up what do you do you've got a plunger you can definitely plunge it toilet auger send it down through there see if you can grab whatever it is and pull it out but what if many of these things work what do you how many times in your life has this happened you come into the bathroom and you flush the toilet and this happens and you can see it right away you know what's gonna happen it's gonna overflow you see that one just came to the top but if we flush it again of course that's just gonna overflow how many times does that happen to you maybe you've had guests maybe you have a young child or maybe it was you maybe you stopped it up maybe somebody drop something down inside there either way we've got to open this up let me show you how this is called a plunger I know that sounds silly probably everybody knows that but say you didn't know this is a plunger and if there's a great plunger because it has a stem at the bottom you see it's flexible rubber we know that something stopped up inside of here we can try the plunger let's see if it'll do it will push down and actually pull up nothing's happening right nothing at all little water is being forced through so let's list that toilet and just see do we plunge it out remember I showed you the auger let's go ahead and try that pull that all your cable all the way back get this down into the to the trap of the toilet push it hard then we're gonna crank the handle see if we can grab whatever is down in there put pressure on it push it down through oh I feel something [Music] you see the tension see the tension on there right at the bottom of the toilet I can feel it it's got tension can you see this handle see that tension something right at the bottom of the toilet don't know what it is so I should be all the way through still tension did I grab it you can see the water going down somebody put something down there what is that you can see there's still something into that water still trying to drain let's clean this off and do it again probably more paper towels so what do we do sometimes it'll break free and that water will flush but remember something those paper towels that's what we found they're going to go down the sewer line they're not going to dissolve never put paper towels down yet ever never ever as well as any female products talk about Kotex again we've got that all girl all the way through that toilet trap went clear down to the bottom you can see I'm still still filling up but let's flush it take a look nice and clean so those are two ways that you can try to unclog your toilet so maybe you have one of these little hand crank snakes and of course it works the same way you hold the chair you turn it you can see the cable spinning and that would go down through the traffic I would not recommend this number one it's going to scratch up the bottom of your toilet really bad and then to this cable is pretty flimsy and see how easy it bends this can actually hit your stockings and then double back and then you've got a knot in your cable that you won't be able to pull the cable back so even if you rent a machine okay we've seen several methods to unclog the toilet but what if it's none of those work what if none of them work we sent the auger all the way down through and we know that it went through the trap and we know that it went clear down to the flange clerkes through the toilet but it's still backed up what do you do first thing you're gonna do is shut off the water okay shut that water supply off you might have to go to your main but whatever you got to do is shut that water off next run take the lid off okay then we're gonna go ahead and flush and get all this water out of here hold hold the handle and make sure that all that water goes out as much as possible if it backs up you know it puts overflows well it overflows but hopefully you've got enough with your plunger that it won't overflow so you can see we've got most of the water out of there next set your plunger down the toilet and get pushes much water out of here as possible get it all you can see it's just holding a little bit of water and that's good because next what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and pull out these toilet bolts more than likely down here in this trap somewhere in here or right at the flange there's an object most common objects are small toys like a Hot Wheel perhaps a toothbrush or even a small comb and it's stuck right there so we've got to take the toilet out and roll it upside down to see if we can get that to drop where we can get it out let's take a look so using your wrench get this toilet not loose and you can spin it off one of the problems that you may find remember I just put this toilet all here for demonstrations but one of the problems you might find is that that toilet bowls were rusted and that's a whole other video on how to take this toilet bowl off of here that can be a real pain and that's why when plumbers come out or roto-rooter or somebody that's a drain cleaner like us we're gonna charge a little bit more if we have to work on this toilet bowl to get it off of here and it takes might take an hour might take two but it is not easy I made it look easy because I just put this together before you guys see the demonstration let's do the same thing let's go ahead and take this toilet mould off and normally these would have been cut down to size and a cap on top of it but again remember I just put this together for a demonstration for you to show you what happens and remember also the reason that we're doing this is because something is lodged down in this section of the toilet well it has a trap it's right here water level right here's the trap the toilet has a trap right here's the water level that keeps the sewer gas from down below here from coming up and getting you have no odor but something got stuck in this system right here and more than likely I see they're in this Bend or it's right down at the flange and it's laying across the cost of flange won't let that water go down and of course all the waste is in there too remember we plunge the toilet we got as much water out as possible we emptied the tank make sure your tank is as empty as possible because when we pick it up and roll it over then you've got a real mess so I suggest that you actually take this outside and work on it rolling it around in your bathroom it's really the small space plus it might be tile you know floor scratch it up could break the toilet so I'm going to show you how to set this lid someplace safe because it breaks very easily so I'm just going to move it out of the way move all your tools that you have out here it's nice to lay out some towels if you have them make sure that you have all of your nuts and bolts make sure you've got all those put them in your pocket or whatever usually you would replace usually you would replace these after you pull it so keep them handy the way I like to do this is this grab a hold right here in the center and this will make it so it's very easy to carry pull it up remember it's got wax holding it down pull it up and it will wattle it out you should walk it backwards or forwards just carry it right after you've went outside lay the toilet on its side and you can see this one right away there's a toy jammed down in there there could be anything down in here I mean hot wheels are a big number two item perhaps does this mean the child dropped it in there no it could have fell off of the top of the toilet maybe it was on the top all kinds of things can get stuck in your toilet what's amazing is how did it get from here and go through that trap come through this little elbow and get all the way down here that's what's always amazing to me but you have to play with this this is stuck in your heart remember how much tension we had on the auger when we were trying to pull it out of there because it grabbed a hold of this you got it we got it loose and we can pull it out okay we've got it all back together remember we tighten up those toilet bolts we also put a new wax ring down below next thing you want to do is go ahead and put you know your lid back on the top and then of course tighten up that water supply line and let it fill up so we're ready to test the system how do you do that of course we could just flush it yeah we wouldn't really want to make sure that it's clean that everything is going to go through throw some toilet paper in there use a flush let's see what it does oh yeah took that right out nice and clean good swirling action jets are working baby hey this is chocolate apple dreams reminding you [Music]

Channel: Apple Drains

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Keywords: toilet back up, toilet overflow, toilet sewer drain, plunger, auger, drain snake, drain machine, Apple Drains, Drain, sewer, How to unclog toilet, toilet clog, tampon, waste vent, french drain, septic tank, drain field, toilet flange, wax ring, toilet bolt, toilet seat, how to fix toilet

Id: zbokwBe3eCw

Length: 13min 1sec (781 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 20 2020