this toilet won't flush no matter how many times i tried, the toilet is 17 years old and been used with hard salty water, any guesses and suggestions if some salt built-up or something that may have deposited over years of continuous usage, how to cut through the salt that has narrowed the hole? I think the salt build-up is predominantly the reason why the toilet won't flush:no:
Super choked toilet,won't flush
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this toilet won't flush no matter how many times i tried, the toilet is 17 years old and been used with hard salty water, any guesses and suggestions if some salt built-up or something that may have deposited over years of continuous usage, how to cut through the salt that has narrowed the hole? I think the salt build-up is predominantly the reason why the toilet won't flush:no:
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Is it really the drain that's plugged up?
Does water fill up the tank and come out the holes under the rim when it's flushted?
If you dump a 5 gal. bucket of water in the bowl does it go down?
Does water fill up the tank and come out the holes under the rim when it's flushted?
If you dump a 5 gal. bucket of water in the bowl does it go down?
nice joke man but i hope you suggested a solution anyways:thumbup:
the water stays in the bowl the water doesn't go down, it looks like a pond
So you give us a non standard situation wherein your toilet is set in concrete, (Who the hell does that?) Your toilet is supplied with salt water (Who the hell does that?) You dont tell us how the waste line is piped. (Dumps into the Ocean?) and you dont try to dump a five gallon bucket of water down the drain like one poster described, and let us know what happened.
Yeah the bulldozer guy was right, or Composition C-4. It sounds like your (house?) was plumbed by Rootie Kazootie.
Yeah the bulldozer guy was right, or Composition C-4. It sounds like your (house?) was plumbed by Rootie Kazootie.
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Drain lines plugged up, vents plugged up, septic tank is full, leach field has failed.
All I'm asking is how to get rid of the salt deposit caused by the hard water usage? just let me know some way i could use to cut through the salt. i put my fingers through the hole and found out that it is no wider than the circumference of my thumb and thus i have concluded that it is the salt deposit that has caused me all this trouble.
Is there any chemical or product that could be employed to fixing this?
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lime-a-way is a product often used to loosen calcium/mineral deposits on shower heads, but i don't know about salt, and i don't know about using it in a toilet. I have had toilets with major mineral deposits before, but i was able to pull them up, and feed a small log chain thru them with a string and shop-vac, and then carefully work the chain back and forth to break up the deposits. I have also broken a toilet by doing this, so it's a last resort. I suppose since your toilet is cemented to the floor (i still find it hard to believe that anyone would do that), it's not an option for you.
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Try some Clobber and a toilet auger- careful with the stuff- read the warning labels!
http://www.herchem.com/specs/clobber.pdf
http://www.herchem.com/specs/clobber.pdf
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