Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Flushable wipes -> clogged toilet

We had a minor emergency on Saturday morning.  Our toilet was plugged up and started overflowing.  Kinda gross especially since the boy just pooped in it.

DH spent an unsuccessful half an hour trying to unclog it with our pathetic little plunger.  We called our landlord and he came by with a heavy-duty plunger and was able to fix our problem in a jiffy.  I think we should upgrade to a better plunger.

Anyhow, the cause of our clog was the flushable wipes I've been using... now DH has banned me from flushing them down the toilet.  My take-home message is that flushable wipes don't really disintegrate very well... so if you do flush them down the toilet, use sparingly.  We use regular toilet paper on him now, but he seems to prefer the wipes.