There is a product to resolve the need to bail out toilets when doing a full unit replacement.
Comes in a package of about 4 oz and is poured into the bowl.
In one minute, the water in the bowl becomes a very stiff gel mass for no spill when removing the toilet from the home.
Do NOT tell any Jr High kids this is sold at Home Depot and only cost $2 per pack.
I recently called a plumber to fix my leaking toilet. It took him 10 minutes. He charged me for 2 hours.
A buddy of mine had a fishing camp with the only drinking water supply being from a cistern.
He mentioned that the water was cloudy and had crud floating in it.
I climbed up into the cistern and there was a very dead and decomposing raccoon.
My buddy and his crew had been drinking that water for weeks.
“To our surprise, we pulled back a dead raccoon from the drain through a 4-inch plumbing vent stack.”
that happened to me with a squirrel: main roof vent stack didn’t have a protective vent cover, squirrel goes down, gets stuck a few feet before the main drain empties into the septic tank ... didn’t know any of this until plumber sticks his power roto-rooter up the pipe exit in the tank and hits an obstruction ... after a bit of grinding, ground up squirrel and all the backed up waster water comes rushing out ... plumber came close to getting sick, which surprised me as i would have figured he’s seen much worse ... at any rate, put a vent cover over the main roof vent stack ASAP ...
My plumber now charges $165 per hour.
My doctor visit is less per hour.
Out of boredom, in my off time in lovely Minot AFB ND. I completed the USAF plumbing course.
Passed all tests except the final which I did not take as I didn’t want that extra specialty officially written into my records.
A guy that repaired B-52 avionics and could do plumbing, I feared I would have never been transferred out of that shithole.
Plumbers have a racket. All you need is a strong stomach, good PPE (gloves), be something of a contortionist, and it is easy.
DIY’s on Youtube have been invaluable for me.....
In Texas we had a rattlesnake in the shop toilet.
The rusted steel pipe we noticed, running level above the entire length of the sandwich prep counter, and spliced with rubber couplings in several places, all of 2” diameter, was an unvented soil pipe for 8 apartment units toilet and sink flush from the four stories above.
No wonder there was a mysterious smell.
Years ago my wife dropped a wash rag in the toilet as it was flushing.
No harm no foul I thought. A couple years later the toilet wasn’t flushing properly. I finally removed it and shined a flashlight down the pipe. The cast iron pipe had a little burr that caught the rag and completely unraveled it.
I must have pulled a mile of crap covered thread out of that pipe.
... I'M WORKING ON IT SHARON!!!
(If you know, you know)
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