how to unclog a stopped toilet without having to send for a plumber?

Answer 1

Pour in the toilet 2 liter of hydrochloric acid and after a wail it will be unclogged and clean. However if it is clogged with plastic it wont work.

Answer 2

I would imagine you have tried a plunger! Get a metal coat hanger. Straighten it out and send it through the toilet. If you do not meet obstruction within the length of the hangar, you will need to do some work. You can remove the toilet very easily. Turn off the water supply and drain toilet. There are two screws at the base of the toilet. Take those off and remove the whole toilet (remove as much water as poossible first!) Now, run your hanger down the pipe. If you sill don't meet obstruction in the length of the hanger, you'll have to get a snake. Regardless, it is much easier to use the snake once the toilet is removed. Check in the basement before you do any of the drastic stuff and see if there is a 'clean out' plug anywhere. That makes it all easier!
Good Luck!

Answer 3

Go to home depot. Ask for help finding a toilet snake. BUT not just any toilet snake. I have provided a link to the one you should get. they are 30.00 USD give or take a few pennies. I use them at my job and will never use onything else. They force the clog past the small drain pipe to the larger main stack and this should elleviate the problem. If it doesn't you need to call a plumber, cause your main stack or street line is clogged and this could be a very serious problem. Good luck! (I am the Engineering Supervisor at a major hotel in the St. Louis area.) DO NOT USE THE 5 GALLONS OF WATER THING! BAD BAD BAD IDEA!

Answer 4

Ryan W is right about the plunger, but he left a little out. Use a good plunger but don't do it as most people try to do it. Everyone tries to plunge down and don't worry about the up stroke with a plunger.
If you will push the plunger down slowly until it is nearly collapsed but starting to get a little suction on the up stroke then snap it back up so as to create a large amount of suction, the reverse pressure on the clog helps more than compressing it does. Just push it down and jerk it back quickly. Do this several times in a row. Get a rhythm going. Slowly down and jerk it back, slowly down and jerk it back. I say slowly, but you want to do it as fast as you can without creating much pressure on the down stroke and then let the suction snatch it back and get it loose.
MichaelM is right about the 5 gallons of water if you don't have a plunger, and as he said, don't over flow it. Just dump what it will hold in there fast to create pressure and it will work a lot of times. If you try it once and it doesn't work, the water should seep down in thirty minutes or so and do it again. Even if you use the plunger and it breaks lose it is a good idea to do this as it will wash the clog out of the smallr line and on down stream.
The snake Weazalus is talking about would be the thirdf try. You can rent them, but for the money, you may as well buy one to keep on hand.
If all of this fails, there should be a cleanout somewhere within a few feet of the toilet. This is where the plumber earns his paychech, and they are high paychecks if it gets this far.....
Rent a powered snake and take the cap off the cleanout. A 12 pipe wrench or a large pair of channel locks should do it but I have seen a couple of them that I used an eighteen in pipe wrench on and had to put a pipe on the handle to get enough leverage, but you will have to get the cap off.
When you rent it, get the guy, or gal, to show you how it operates. It will power itself right on out and all you will have to do is guide it into the pipe. A 50 foot one should be pleanty, but I just had to gety a 100 foot one for my house that had been setting for years before I got it and remodeled it. It was stopped up within 10 feet of the road and a 50 footer wouldn't do it. Hope you don't have to go this far but one of the 4 answers above will get it clear and whenever you do get it clear, keep dumping water in it as fast as you can, even if is just a hose pipe to wash the debri clear for an hour or so.
Good luck and God Bless
Dennis

Answer 5

Go to your local Home Improvement center and obtain a 'closet auger'. If that doesn't clear the kids toys, then pull the trone and run a 4" blade down the waste line. The latter is something you will need to rent from a tool rental company.

Answer 6

If the above fails, get a clean 5-gallon bucket, put 4 or so gallons in it and pour it all at once right down the hole; this blast will usually send whatever on its way.
Don't overflow the toilet doing this, of course.
This is not a "bad bad" idea like Weazel said.
Just try it. I don't mean to stupidly dump the whole thing and get your feet wet.
Or spend 30 bucks.

Answer 7

Get a good plunger and start plunging. Make sure it isn't one of the plungers that are only cup shaped. They are better for sinks. For toilets get one of the ones with the cup but also the cylinder shape that goes down the hole.

Answer 8

Im a firm believer in explosives.....should fix it in a flash.. if not try the plunger or snake....LOL

Answer 9

IF YOU CAN GET IT DOWN TO LOW WATER LEVEL. TURN H2O OFF AT THE SHUT OFF VALVE THAT GOES INTO TANK. FLUSH TOILET ONE MORE TIME TO GET WATER OUT OF TANK. TAKE H2O LINE OFF OF TANK. UNSCREW BOLTS FROM FLOOR THAT KEEP TOILET IN PLACE. PULL DIRECTLY UPWARDS TO PULL IT OFF OF FLANGE IT'S THE PLASTIC CIRCLE IN THE FLOOR THAT CONNECTS TO PIPE TO RID OF WASTE. ANYHOW YOU'LL NEED TO REMOVE OLD WAX RING FROM FLANGE AND REMOVE WAX FROM UNDERSIDE OF TOILET SO IT'S CLEANED UP TO PUT NEW WAX RING ON WHEN YOU GO TO PLACE IT BACK ON AFTER YOU'VE RETRIEVED WHATEVER PLUGGED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE OUT. THEN PLACE WAX RING ON SET TOILET BACK DOWN FROM WHERE IT CAME MAKE SURE IT'S LEVEL AND TIGHTEN BACK DOWN TO FLOOR. AND PLACE H2O LINE BACK ON TANK NICE AND SNUG AND TURN H2O BACK ON AND LET TOILET TANK FILL. AND YOUR BACK IN THE BUSINESS.

Answer 10

do it your self as it was you they probable filled it