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February 3, 2010
September 13, 2009
clogged toilet links
Here are few links that will help you to learn how to fix the clogged toilet.
How to Fix a Clogged Toilet article
anothe clogged toilet article
August 30, 2009
clogged toilet: disposing of toilet paper
disposing of toilet paper in the toilet insted of
in the garbage can will produce a greatly increased demand on septic
and sewage systems and water treatment recycling facilities. it will
result in increased costs in maintaining such systems. Expanding the
volume and capacity for dealing with increasing amounts of wastes in
septic and sewage systems and water treatment and recycling facilities
is a very costly project. It is not at all unsanitary to dispose of
toilet paper in the garbage can provided such wastes are promptly
collected and burned or thrown into a pit and covered up with lime
August 26, 2009
How to fix clogged toilet
Clogged toilet is a big issue we all want to avoid. The knowledge of how to deal with clogged toilet can help you very much in saving lot of money and frustration. There are several hardware tools that can be found at any store and will help you in solving your clogged toilet situation
August 20, 2009
Clogged Toilet Around The World
Clogged Toilet
in a family-type restaurant in Paris, the train station in either
Rome or Florence and a town on the French/Spanish border (very
specific I know) where the Basque terrorists were quite active.
I’ve been to the same countries as A.L. Ashbridge as well as the
Czech Republic and more recently Poland.
These days, however, the chance of finding a squat toilet is
probably approaching zero.
The only time I ran across a bidet was in an expensive hotel in
Paris. I’d probably have seen more of them if my travelling weren’t
budget, i.e., b&bs and 1 and 2* hotels and pensions.
A bidet is not a toilet. It’s for personal hygiene. Do a search on
the Internet for usage instructions.
The only time I ran across really non-soft toilet paper was in a
school in London. It was a sort of waxy tissue paper and every
second or third square was stamped “Property of” the name of the
school.
Fifteen years ago, many places in Paris and Italy charged to use the
facilities. Three or four years ago, many places in Poland charged
to use them. If this is still the case, finding coins when you’re
desperate could be a problem.
Train stations in London charge 20 p to use the loos.
Clogged Toilet Thailand culture
Clogged Toilet
There is another little
cultural difference that takes many Westerners by surprise.
This is a country with very little toilet paper .
Most rural and many urban hotels and guesthouses provide no toilet
paper whatsoever, since the Thais use a little water to do the job
instead. There may be a water-filled bucket or other vessel and a
dipper beside the squat toilet. The ‘fancy’ places may have a hand
sprayer such as are found on kitchen sinks in the U.S. This is an
occasion when the squat toilet comes into its own- it’s not easy to
hose down one’s nether regions while seated on a western-style throne.
The job is easier still when wearing a sarong Burmese-style. It takes
a little getting used to, but I think that one can actually do a
better job with the water method than with a roll of t.p., anyway.
Besides, when you had a big bowl of noodles and fiery rat-shit peppers
for lunch, a little cold water on the..er..affected part can be a real
treat.
I stayed in a guesthouse in rural Thailand whose owner had had no
luck with posting signs for guests who insisted upon plugging up his
minimal plumbing with toilet paper they’d sneaked in. He finally
provided a trash can for those who insisted on using t.p. to throw it
away. Now there’s a pleasant thought on a hot day!
Let me rethink my statement about there being little toilet paper in
Thailand. Now that I think of it, there’s a roll of toilet paper in
many restaurants- it’s in the middle of the table! The Thais are a
delightfully practical people; the diners simply tear off whatever
they need to use at the table as a table linen. They even have little
plastic holders for the tabletop rolls. No fair reeling off 20 feet
on the way to the toilet!
clogged toilet – thailand
As a tourist visiting Thailand, the Clogged Toilet business is rather easy to deal with. Rule no 1, use the toilet in your hotel room in the morning (“the big visit”). Then out in the streets use the toilets in the nice looking hotels if there is any nearby (they don’t seem to mind, atleast if you look like someone who could be a guest). big shopping malls usually also have ok toilets, the ones at Siam Square for instance, it seems they have like 4 full-day-working toilet-facilities-cleaners for each toilet area. if you need to use a less clean toilet, like in a average street nudel restaurant, use sandals, then it doesn’t matter if theres 1 inch of water on the toilet floor. and if it’s a no-seat toilet, just stand. ofcource there’s a problem if your a woman, or if you need to do the big one. and regarding the stalls with no paper, I think it would be better if they charge like 4 baht for each customer and have big paperrols in each stall instead of charging 2 baht for a small box with paper. probably they would make more money on that aswell, and I would be happy to pay that small change.
August 13, 2009
clogged toilet cat training
train our two 9 mo old kittens to use the toilet,
with mixed success. One kitten (Athena), seems to be grasping the concept,
but our other kitten (Jasmine) is having some problems. Since we really
don’t want to go back to using a litter box, I’m asking for some help
from the r.p.c list.
We’ve been training for about 2 months now, using a plastic insert that fits
in the toilet. For the most part, Jasmine was able to use this setup.
Within the past week we cut a hole in the insert, and began to use less
litter in the tray, with the hope they would begin to place all four paws
on the toilet seat (as opposed to squatting in the tray, as if it were a
regular litter pan). This is where Jasmine’s rebellion begins. She will
run up to the toilet, scratch around, push the litter into the hole and
down into the toilet, and leave, without “making a deposit”. She hasn’t
used the toilet for about 3 days now, prefering the couch in our living
room. We’ve covered the couch with a sheet and sprayed it with vinegar,
but Jasmine still relieves herself there. We’re assuming she’s protesting
the experiment, and longs for her old litter box.
We’re almost ready to give up on this experiment, since we’ve been told that
some cats just won’t use the toilet.
We also got to the point where I had a big piece of linoleum over the
toilet with litter on it. She would stand on the linoleum instead of
on the rim, and go in the litter. Then I cut a small (maybe 1″ dia)
hole in the middle. Amazingly, she went into the hole, but then pushed
any litter on the platform into the hole after it. Our response was to
put as very little litter on the platform as possible (to wean her off the
need for litter as well as to not clog the toilet). Then we gradually
made the hole bigger (may one extra inch in diameter every 4-5 days).
Eventually, once there was only a 2″ rim of lineoleum inside the seat, she
started putting her front paws on the seat but her back paws on the
platform. Finally, after many weeks, we were able to get rid of the
platform altogether.
There were times she resisted and would pace around the toilet wanting
her box and then would leave. We knew she was holding it in, and were afraid
she would get constipated. We induced her to use the toilet by 1) feeding
her a little pat of margaine or butter. This loosens up the stools and
gives them the impetus to go to the bathroom (also a good trick for
helping them pass hairballs). 2) Getting in the bathroon with her and closing
the door so she couldn’t escape, and 3) sitting there with her until she went.
Patience was definitely required on part 3. Sometimes I would sit on the
floor reading a magazine for 1/2 hour or so until she decided that she’d
do whatever to make me happy and get out of there. Another trick is
to tickle her back right above her tail. I was told that this is where
mother cats touch the kittens to make them go to the bathroom (maybe there’s
some kind of reflex or something). I would put her up on the platform and
just use one finger to rub the junction of the base of her tail and her
back and she would get all pestered because it was giving her the urge to
go.
rv clogged toilet
Are there any guide lines on how much toilet paper is TOO MUCH? Do you count squares or what?
Can an rv toilet be plunged safely if you hold the lever open and fill
it with water?
Are there any guide lines on how much toilet paper is TOO MUCH? Do you count squares or what?
Can an rv toilet be plunged safely if you hold the lever open and fill
it with water?
Whe you are stationary for a period of time, there’s nothing sloshing the
“stuff’ around and it will sit in a lump. Under those conditions, you should
keep the dump valve closed until you are about half full, fill the tank the
rest of the way with water and then dump. If stuff still remains, they sell
a magic wand that attaches to a garden hose and squirts water at high
pressure (because of a small orifice in the end). You put it into the tank
through the toilet and let it rip while the dump valve is open. They also
sell clear plastic elbows that attach to the drain where you connect the
sewer hose. You can connect a hose (through a one way valve) and squirt
water back into the tank, shut it off, and watch the stuff come out,
repeating the operation until all is clear.
If all that fails, use the single sheet method on the toilet. You take a
single sheet of toilet paper and fold it in half. Fold it in half again.
Now tear a small piece off the corner which forms the center of the sheet.
Save that small piece, it is important. Open the sheet of TP and the hole
should be about the right size to slide your index finger through. Slide the
TP all the way back to the knuckle. Use your index finger to wipe. Now
slide the TP back off your finger, carefully wiping the finger with the TP.
Now get that small piece of TP you ripped off; you’ll need it to clean under
your fingernail!
My personal bias is that only using toilet paper, whether in an RV or at home,
is rather unsanitary. I believe individuals in countries without plumbing or
toilet paper are more likely to have cleaner rears than the average American
because we typically only use dry paper, but they use water to wash themselves.
Bidets are the most convenient way to get a water wash, but lacking that, as
most RVs do, consider doing what most of the rest of the world does, which is
to take a small container of water into the bathroom with you (an 8 oz. plastic
bottle will do, or maybe use the spray nozzle I’ve seen in some RVs), do you
business, lean forward, and slowly poor the water onto your tailbone while
washing yourself with your other hand. All the water runs down your butt into
the toilet bowl. Blot your wet hand and your rear dry with several sheets of
pre-folded toilet paper. Your “working” hand is not likely to be much more
“soiled” than it would be using toilet paper, but of course you wash your hands
with soap afterward anyway. This also works great on backpacking trips where
TP disposal and “rump rash” can be a problem
clogged toilet and snake
I’ve had very limited luck with using a snake through the toilet. The
toilet has the trap build in, and its difficult at best to get the
snake throught the trap. You can, however, remove the toilet, and
snake the waste pipe starting from there. If the clog is in the toilet
itself, you should also be able to work it out, since you can work from
both ends. Removing the toilet typically only involves a couple of
bolts (usually rusted, cut them and replace them.) Use a new wax ring
when you put the toilet back on. Note that there are two varieties of
plumbers snakes. One is the long flat “wire” sort of thing you use to
ram out pipes. It is usually just a coil of flat spring steel with
some sort of flat spot on the end. The other kind consists of a four
foot or so pipe, with a crank on one end, and a flexible attachment on
the other end. This type (it probably has a name other than a snake,)
can be used to clean out the trap of a toilet without detaching the
toilet. You might try one of these if you have one, and think the clog
might be in the toilet trap.
