2006-12-31 06:02:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Is this a serious question?
Flushing too much of anything will clog anything.
Basic physics!!
2006-12-31 06:52:54 · answer #1 · answered by mystk1111 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if there is already an obstruction, or partial clog. Get a snake, and send it down through the toilet. If this doesn't work, find the cleanout plug, and snake the drain out from there.
Also, a plunger will work if your clog is in the toilet.
Children like to flush things like toys. You might have to remove the toilet to see if that's it.
I have found dentures at the base of a toilet before- almost gone for good.
2006-12-31 14:56:28 · answer #2 · answered by Lion J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Toilet paper is specially made to break down fast in water. With nominal usage, it's already breaking down even before you flush. Facial tissues do not break down like this, and are not advised as a replacement for toilet paper. But if you use a huge gob of it, it's not going to disintegrate and can get stuck in the drain. Ever see a public restroom where punks tried to fill the toilet with paper? After sitting there for awhile, even that huge gob has bio-degraded enough that it'll usually flush down. Unless you're over-using the paper, it shouldn't pose any problem unless there's something else cloging the drain or trap.
2006-12-31 15:56:53 · answer #3 · answered by BuddyL 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Toilet paper is specifically made to disintegrate in water and not clog the sewer piping. Any other paper -- facial tissue ("Kleenex"), paper towels, the cardboard tube that the toilet paper comes on -- does not have this characteristic, and CAN clog the toilet.
2006-12-31 18:19:10 · answer #4 · answered by engineer01 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Toilet paper can and should be flushed. The paper will 'self destruct' in the sanitary sewer or septic tank. Don't flush Kleenex or similar products, cigaretts, cigars, sanitary products. They can cause problems
2007-01-03 21:52:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Paper towels are usually a bad choice.
2006-12-31 16:43:38 · answer #6 · answered by eniomelmahnarb 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When it gets wrapped around the last thing you flushed (tampon applicator, q-tip, toothbrush, chicken bone, matchbox car ...) it will.
2006-12-31 19:05:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you got kids, no telling what's down there.If you can't plunge it down you might need to root it out.
2007-01-04 07:54:50 · answer #8 · answered by JACK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋