Some bizarre things get flushed at the rental home
It just kills me that my child & I had to waste hours out of our afternoon because someone flushed plastic, then who flushes that down the toilet? It is so bizarre to me that people suppose comfortable flushing.
I run a small motel business & I deal with a lot of concerns, and the people I was with and I don’t get the highest quality of people renting. They tend to trash the rooms, then i have needed to get my septic program pumped because of gross things people have flushed down the toilet. I have needed a drain line service from tampons stuck in it. I also have messed up around with shower drainage due to soap, hair & people dumping grease down the shower drain, however gross right? I recently had an issue with a toilet not flushing. The water would go down, but no solids. You could plunge & nothing would happen. I knew something major was causing the block. I tried to get a plumber to do the dirty task but the guy wasn’t available. So my child & I served as plumbers for the afternoon. I had him lift up the toilet while I shined a flashlight down it. I then found the plastic that covers deodorant was in the pipe. It was blocking everything from its angle. I then had to fish it back out & then everything flowed naturally. It just kills me that my child & I had to waste hours out of our afternoon because someone flushed plastic, then who flushes that down the toilet? It is so bizarre to me that people suppose comfortable flushing. It is not a magic hole that lets all icky things disappear. It goes through the drain line & into a septic tank. It doesn’t disappear. It will come back in hopefully years down the road! Flush the wrong thing & hours later someone is pulling it back up.