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blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

This morning I flushed my toilet and it didnt drain properly. The whole bowl filled with nasty water and slowly drained. My aptment's handyman came this evening and unblocked it for me, but he told me in future not to flush toilet paper down.

Is he joking? Does anyone else have to do this? I've been here 7 months and not had any problems till now

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

I had that issue with my first apartment. It was an old house with plumbing that was crap. Apparently not able to handle paper. I left that place as quick as I could! My new place has no problems at all.

KPRROK

schwa · Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap

Man, a crap-paper bin in your bathroom would be a drag.

What did the maintenance guy do to unplug it? If its worked fine for months, I'd suggest just going a bit lighter on the paper & keeping a plunger handy just in case.

blunder1983 · Joined: 12 Apr 2005

Yeah I'm with you on this Schwa he just plungered it for 2 mins and it was fixed. I'll just claim ignorance if it break again, after all I am a foreigner! Very Happy

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

Definitely invest in a plunger. I've never looked back. I always flush bog roll down the pan and refuse to do otherwise but once I idiotically flushed a big apple core down there whilst rather drunk. Caused real problems...until I bought the magic plunger. An essential part of the kit.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Also, flush with more frequency. Three to four during one visit is not going to cause a drought.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Yeah, I think we are all surprised by that at some point in our stay here. Younger Koreans don't give a crap about stockpiling used toilet paper, however.