Be thankful for the little things. The air you breathe, the food you eat, and apparently among others, your toilet that flushes! It’s addling how frustrating our lives can get when these little things we appear to take for granted begin to malfunction. Have you ever been in a situation where your toilet won’t flush? Oh dear.
While plumbing mostly requires professional help, this piece offers a do-it-yourself help, or at least, a temporary form of sustenance for people with faulty toilets. From faeces to urine, to any random disposals we use toilets for, it is expedient that it be cleaned after use. Asides the fact that cleanliness is next to godliness, it is just hideous to have a messed up toilet. No one wants ever to have to fetch water in a bucket and manually flush the toilet. Some of us didn’t even know that was possible until you read the previous sentence!
“My toilet won’t flush. Why?” Without further ado, let’s proffer a range of answers to your question.
Only plumbers can see via a professional lens and offer an immediate diagnosis of problems like these. Even then, sometimes we encounter unconventional issues and might need to fiddle around a little before we get the hang of them. Our most accurate guess is you’re not plumbers! Hence, we’ll only help you in trying to locate the source of the problem by listing some common possibilities. When you find the problem, the answer is in reach!
Some of us are hands-on, and we have toolboxes! As impressive as that may be, before you get your toolbox out, check for the presence of the most important thing – water. Is there even water? Open all the taps in your home, and leave them running for a minute at least, and three, maximally. Ensure that the pipe’s stopcocks are open. If you notice there is no water, contact your plumber. Call your utility supplier if the problem is not peculiar to your home alone.
Peradventure there’s water elsewhere, the problem has a smaller scope now. You now know the non-functionality is a sole problem of the toilet system.
Ensure the stopcock that feeds water into the toilet cistern is open. It can be found just behind the toilet. The following can cause an empty tank:
A filled cistern should empty its content into the bowl. If your toilet still doesn’t flush, it could mean that any of the following has occurred.
Some toilets won’t flush when they are blocked. Blocked toilet require that you use a plunger and possibly a toilet unblocker to free the passageways. It is high time you stopped using too much toilet paper or making a waste bin – tampons, hair, wet wipes, dead plant, etc. – of your toilet bowl. These things clog the pipe and make further flushing impossible.
While it’s indeed frustrating to have a toilet that won’t flush, it is not the worst thing that can happen to a human being. It happens all the time, to everyone! When the toilet button doesn’t flush, follow an ordered step-wise process in the diagnosis of the problem.
Many toilet problems can be fixed by yourself, and you might only need to call a professional when these problems are way above you. Remember always to keep healthy toilet practices, and prevent your kids away from toilet cisterns!
Remember that fixing your toilets when they get damaged and unable to flush, is no luxury. It is of uttermost expedience that you at least try to keep them in good condition.
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