HELP! Hairspray Bottle down toilet!
Frank
spray can. If you can see it, you might be able to use a vacuum cleaner
nozzle to suck it out. Just be sure to get as much water as possible out
first. Use a towel to absorb the excess. Or, if you can borrow a wet/dry
shop vac, then you don't have to worry about the water. As a last resort,
you may have to remove the toilet, but depending on your handyman abilities,
you may wish to call a plumber. It would require replacing the wax ring to
reinstall it. Good luck.
Frank
Rebecca Airth <beck...@home.com> wrote in message
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> PLease help...I trail metal harispray can fell into the toilet while it
> was flushing and I tried to grab it, but it went down! The toilet is
> plugged, doesn't overflow, but comes close...please help, we have tried
> a plunger. We live on the second floor of an apartment building. We
> rent from the owner, so calling the super of manager is out of the
> question. We only have one toilet, help please!
>
> Becky
tre...@sirius.com
>was flushing and I tried to grab it, but it went down! The toilet is
>plugged, doesn't overflow, but comes close...please help, we have tried
>a plunger. We live on the second floor of an apartment building. We
>rent from the owner, so calling the super of manager is out of the
>question. We only have one toilet, help please!
Ouch. If you can't remove it by hand, like the others suggested, you're
going to have to remove the toilet. It's not a big deal, plumbing wise, but
I'd recommend telling the owner juuuust in case. He just might have someone
who can do it for a lot less than it would cost you to get a plumber out.
Good luck!
Rebecca Airth
plugged, doesn't overflow, but comes close...please help, we have tried
a plunger. We live on the second floor of an apartment building. We
rent from the owner, so calling the super of manager is out of the
question. We only have one toilet, help please!
Becky
Daniel Hicks
Grit your teeth and reach in there to see if you can grab the can. The
person with the smallest arms should probably be the one to try. It
helps to dipper the water out first.
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Frank <doc...@dontdoitnow.com> wrote in message
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Rebecca Airth
we don't have access to a shop vac until tomorrow, and we were planning
on going away this weekend, would the toilet explode if we didn't get a
plumber in until this weekend?
Thanks alot guys!
Becky
Frank wrote:
>
> Scoop out excess water and use a small mirror to see if you can see the
> spray can. If you can see it, you might be able to use a vacuum cleaner
> nozzle to suck it out. Just be sure to get as much water as possible out
> first. Use a towel to absorb the excess. Or, if you can borrow a wet/dry
> shop vac, then you don't have to worry about the water. As a last resort,
> you may have to remove the toilet, but depending on your handyman abilities,
> you may wish to call a plumber. It would require replacing the wax ring to
> reinstall it. Good luck.
> Frank
>
> Rebecca Airth <beck...@home.com> wrote in message
> news:3980D673...@home.com...
> > PLease help...I trail metal harispray can fell into the toilet while it
> > was flushing and I tried to grab it, but it went down! The toilet is
> > plugged, doesn't overflow, but comes close...please help, we have tried
> > a plunger. We live on the second floor of an apartment building. We
> > rent from the owner, so calling the super of manager is out of the
> > question. We only have one toilet, help please!
> >
> > Becky
Niall Sheehan
>PLease help...I trail metal harispray can fell into the toilet while it
>was flushing and I tried to grab it, but it went down! The toilet is
>plugged, doesn't overflow, but comes close...please help, we have tried
>a plunger. We live on the second floor of an apartment building. We
>rent from the owner, so calling the super of manager is out of the
>question. We only have one toilet, help please!
>
>Becky
A toilet is a pretty simple thing so don't fret to much. Normally speaking
there is a trap in the bottom half of the toilet (the half you sit on).
This tap is a curved path for the evacuating water to follow. The top of
the trap is at the level of the water in the bowl after a flush. My guess
is that the bottle is stuck at this point as there wouldn't be enough room
for the can/bottle to rotate through the trap.
So as mentioned in this thread get as much water out of the toilet as
possible. The can will have air in it and will therefor be floating. Find
someone with really small hands (a 9 year old would work) to try and reach
it, but this will not be easy. You could also try a wire coat hanger to
try and get it to fall back out. The best method though will be turning of
the water to the toilet, disconnecting the supply tube, unbolting the
toilet from the floor, tilting it up and use the hanger from the bottom to
push the can out. If the wax seal ($3.00) isn't to damaged, you can sit
the toilet back down and do everything back up.
Good luck.
Steve Smith
take it up, turn it over, and with luck the can is stuck inside the
porcelain toilet fixture and you can get it out with maybe a big
corkscrew. Pray it did not go some distance down the sewer drain.
Rebecca Airth wrote:
> PLease help...I trail metal harispray can fell into the toilet while it
> was flushing and I tried to grab it, but it went down! The toilet is
> plugged, doesn't overflow, but comes close...please help, we have tried
> a plunger. We live on the second floor of an apartment building. We
> rent from the owner, so calling the super of manager is out of the
> question. We only have one toilet, help please!
>
> Becky
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Steve Smith wrote:
> Use the local gas station, bail out the toilet, unbolt it from the floor,
> take it up, turn it over, and with luck the can is stuck inside the
> porcelain toilet fixture and you can get it out with maybe a big
> corkscrew. Pray it did not go some distance down the sewer drain.
Puncturing the can? Sounds dangerous, as does the vacuum cleaner. Call the
owner and fess up.
Heather Haindel
floor with a rag or something. They smell realllllly bad.
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Before you buy.
Keith
purpose things like this happen. I dropped my razor down ours. It would take
the maintenance person less than an hour to do the job and he knows or
should know what to do and the parts to fix it. Don't make the job worse and
then have to have the stool replaced because you caused some other damage.
Ben Franklin VI
Both look like small tightly wound coil springs with a helix on the end.
Most stools are tested to pass a two inch ball. IF the can diameter is smaller
than the 2+" passage it is stuck because of it's length. It cannot make the
turn. There will be space between the can and the passage.
The trick is to auger the helix completely by the can THEN pull it back.
Closet Augers are stronger, have a cable within a cable BUT the larger diameter
of the cable may not go by the can.
The cheap Hand Spinner cable is about 1/4" and probably is you best bet.
Good luck!
He is not well bred that cannot bear ill breeding in others. Franklin, 1734
Travis Anton
<beck...@home.com> wrote:
> PLease help...I trail metal harispray can fell into the toilet while it
> was flushing and I tried to grab it, but it went down! The toilet is
> plugged, doesn't overflow, but comes close...please help, we have tried
> a plunger. We live on the second floor of an apartment building. We
> rent from the owner, so calling the super of manager is out of the
> question. We only have one toilet, help please!
>
> Becky
You may want to try what I had to do to retrieve a toilet paper spindle
deposited by an errant 3 year old. Drain the toilet, unbolt it from the
floor, turn it upside down, reach in from the bottom and grab.
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