Does your toilet back up often?
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
United States
June 15, 2008 2:56pm CST
How often does your toilet back up in your house?
Have you ever had to live in a situation where your
toilet did not work at all?
Sometimes when it rains a lot in our area, we
have lots of problems with the septic system and our
toilet backs up almost daily.
I guess we have old pipes or something.
About a year ago, the neighbors got mad when they
moved out because they couldn't get their deposit back
and dropped bricks down into the septic system.
And, it backed up all the toilets on the block.
I hope someone sued them for all the trouble they caused.
We had a real mess to deal with.
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7 responses
@mummymo (23706)
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16 Jun 08
Oh how awful beauty! I have never had to deal with this in my own house but there was a problem with my gran's toilet last year and it backed up several times. Eventually my brother in law got out special rods to clear a blockage down the drain and there have been no more problems since! xxx
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
19 Jun 08
Yes, it was bad. I was concerned that the little one
would get sick. I am so protective of her and her health.
I cleaned constantly for three days and worried a lot.
All is well now. We got someone out to handle the
problem quickly. I will just pick up my family
and take everyone to a hotel next time it happens
until the issue is resolved!
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@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
15 Jun 08
Yeah, it was so super mean, cause it
ended up hurting everyone on the block and not
just them.
They just did it and ran away like cowards
cause they couldn't get their deposit money
back.
Thanks for your comments.
It was nice to chat with you!
Have a good day.
@golfproo (1839)
• Canada
15 Jun 08
Hi There,
I have 3 toilets in my house and they seem to take turns on breaking down! I am not sure why I have such lousy luck with toilets. I have had 3 floods in my house because of them. I am at the point now where I know I should just buy new toilets, but they are expensive and I really dont want to throw my money "down the toilet" :)
cheers,
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
15 Jun 08
I hear you! My front toilet is permanantly
on the disable list until I have the money to buy a new
one. The pipes are fine in there. But the little thing
in the back won't stay down to let water fill the tank.
So, it leaks water from the tank all over the place.
I had to shut the water supply off to it.
Money down the drain as they say!
@TinaCL (429)
• United States
15 Jun 08
Toilet problems are awful! After I moved into my apartment, my landlord told me that I would have to put toilet paper in the trash can instead of the toilet because the toilet always backs up. I wish she had told me this BEFORE I moved in lol. OH well. It's otherwise a decent place with very cheap rent.
@beautyqueen26 (16030)
• United States
15 Jun 08
Oh, the price of cheap rent!
I've gotten "deals" like that too.
There's always a catch for me.
@allendavid (190)
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19 Jun 08
are u in downstairs or in above second floor tell me the detail of your house or u message me
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
15 Jun 08
A septic system shouldn't be backing up into your house if it's working properly. It sounds like there's a problem...maybe it needs to be cleaned out or the drain field isn't working right. We have a septic system at our house and my daughter has one next door, too. At one time, before she moved in over there, the toilet was backing up and we had to have the septic tank pumped out (we're the owners) which fixed the problem. Recently my husband noticed water on the ground next to the tank cover so he investigated and found that there was a blockage going into the drain field which he corrected and it's working fine now.
@cdparazo (5765)
• Philippines
16 Jun 08
Over the years, I can only remember at most 2 incident wherein our toilet didn't work. The last time it didn't flush was because my daughter flush a bent plastic spoon in the toilet. We just found out about it when we had it fixed. Luckily, our toilet works all the time.
