Toilet blockage please help. With picture

[rocketmanbkk]

Yep. Lovely

 

[village idiot]

When I get called to clear a blocked toilet, I automatically tell them it will be a minimum of £100.
Reminds me of a chap in Woodside who wanted me to relocate his toilet. I was busy at the time so asked him to look elsewhere. 6 Months later, I got a call, said new toilet was blocked. I told him I'd rather not be involved. ''Call the person who fitted it''.
He pleaded and pleaded. I told him we need to hire a jet thingy to which he said he will happily hire one. I then informed him that I will not be doing the jetting but will happily instruct and supervise him on how to do it.
Throughout the process, even though he was the one jetting the drains, I was retching uncontrollably. By the time I got home, my sides were hurting badly from all that retching. Got paid £120 for the supervision though.

 

[armyash]

When I get called to clear a blocked toilet, I automatically tell them it will be a minimum of £100.
Reminds me of a chap in Woodside who wanted me to relocate his toilet. I was busy at the time so asked him to look elsewhere. 6 Months later, I got a call, said new toilet was blocked. I told him I'd rather not be involved. ''Call the person who fitted it''.
He pleaded and pleaded. I told him we need to hire a jet thingy to which he said he will happily hire one. I then informed him that I will not be doing the jetting but will happily instruct and supervise him on how to do it.
Throughout the process, even though he was the one jetting the drains, I was retching uncontrollably. By the time I got home, my sides were hurting badly from all that retching. Got paid £120 for the supervision though.

I didn't know it was a blocked toilet until I got there. After speaking to him on the phone for 10 minutes to get some info before I turned up, the way he kept explaining things I was expecting a faulty siphon or fill valve. He made out that the pan had water continuously running in to it. How he couldn't just say the toilet is blocked is beyond me. oh well.

 

[plumben]

Everyone tells me i'm too cheap but as soon as I give a price for a job I get customers asking me to do it cheaper. I need to come back with something that doesn't sound rude or aggressive but makes them look cheeky. I usually say ' you are more than welcome to see if you can find someone to do it cheaper' that usually shuts them up because they know they are getting a deal.

Charge accordingly to your target market, too cheap you'll get cheapskates tiring to save money everywhere

 

[WaterTight]

If you pull out a WC and see the pan connector is caked in filth round the seal and the seal was twisted when the toilet was first installed but either hadn't leaked through sheer luck or had been leaking extremely slightly but now disturbed will leak loads you need to change the pan connector. Which means the boxing needs to come off. In my experience on pulling the toilet out of position this would be the case in about 1 out of every 5 jobs. You could always bung a ring of plumbers mate around the pan spigot but there'll no doubt be some concrete-hard build up of feces that need filing and chipping off before that's going to work. Either way I'd presume big fun ahead and allow 2 hours money.

 

[WaterTight]

Pan connectors should be like huge speedfit joints where you undo it and pull it out and then you change the seal, keeping the original housing and push back in without needing to disturb it's connection to the soil pipe.

 

[kris]

If there is something stuck in thd connector you'd be safer taking toilet out incase you push whatever it is further in. That is I it's an air fresher ... sometimes a drain snake can be handy fi

 

[kris]

If there is something stuck in the connector you'd be safer taking toilet out incase you push whatever it is further in. That is I it's an air fresher ... sometimes a drain snake can be handy for going round the bend. If it's human waste then a good plunge with the drain rod n rubber works a treat. Best to plunge when bowls flushing...Or Usually removing a wc is just as quick as is just a case of removing screws , disconnecting pipework and slide whole thing forward leaving the cistern on the wc.

 

[armyash]

Well I haven't heard from him today so i'm assuming it's all sorted.

 

[Mike Jackson]

Or it's backed up so badly that he's drowned.

 

[armyash]

Or it's backed up so badly that he's drowned.

I won't lie, that has crossed my mind!

 

[Whyme]

Dont put one shot or acid drain cleaner down toilets. it dont dissolve hand towels or wipes or big turds etc and you or the next bloke are gonna get burns firkin around in the water..

 

[WaterTight]

i bet it disolves turds. i'd be more worried about how to actually get it to the turd.