Things You'll Need:
- plunger
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Step 1
If you take a plunger and place it in a wet window and push, when you release the handle, you will note the plunger will not JUST pop back up. This is because you have created a vacuum between the plunger and the glass surface. In this vacuum state, the plunger can gather a suction force based upon human strength and speed.
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Step 2
Water not only stops rising in a once the device is full but it can only flowes down hill. I know these laws are as simple as Newtons law of gravity but a toilet uses both principles. When you look down the neck of a toilet, that drain actually goes back up hill to the point that the designer wants the water in the bowl to top off at. That is the first principle. Next, when placing a plunger in a toilet and PUSHING on the plunger in hopes of PUSHING the clog on down the system, this MIGHT work 10% of the time.
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Step 3
The best way to take a clog out of a toilet is based on a piece of knowledge that the drain pipe in a toilet actually gets smaller aqs it goes down. What this means to you is that if what is stuck in YOUR humble commode just happens to be solid like a lid off of some bottle or something, it aint goinn further down without help. Honestly unless your lucky, you don't want to send it down the pipe short of it getting stuck FURTHER down.
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Step 4
Now back to the basics. You put your plunger in and TRIED to SUCK the fluid toward you only for it to go further down. You think it is fixed so you flush and it appears to be worse. You haven't done anything or gained anything. Here is what you do. Be ready for splashing water so you might want to throw towels over it.
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Step 5
Flush your toilet, push the plunger till it goes down. Now pull up on the handle fast. With any luck you still have the suction we talked about at the beginning. You might get two or three of these actions before you can no longer get suction. One of the bigger things to watch for is anything coming to surface (like that lid) and be ready to get it. Tis best to do all this with clean flushing water even if you have to empty the bowl before you make your first flush to fill it with water and a second flush to start your vacuum process.
