How To Snake A Toilet From The Roof

Lay a couple of towels around the base position a large bucket nearby and put on rubber gloves.

How to snake a toilet from the roof.

Best way to snake from the roof i use to use flex 1 5 pvc hose. Yes the one on the roof. Did you know that using a plunger can actually damage your to. One man in texas called the police after his son pointed out a six foot long indigo snake poking his head out of the bowl.

How to unclog a toilet using a snake and why you shouldn t use a plunger to unclog your toilet. Prepare the area around the toilet for any likely mess. Now with my k 60 i take it up to the roof with me if i don t feel comfortable climbing on the roof then i pull a toilet. Begin the feeding the snake into the mouth of the drain.

I would definitely not recommend to snake from there unless you have a very specific reason to. Lean a ladder against the house as close as possible to the room with the blockage and climb it to access the roof. One man in north carolina even reported that the snake he recently found was the sixth snake to come up his toilet in four years. Usually a toilet clog will be in the trap in the base of the toilet.

How do snakes get in there. At the end of the snake is a curved hook which will help break up and grab debris that has accumulated in the pipes. Unfurl the snake and lower the bulbous metal end into the toilet bowl. Snaking a vent stack from the roof would entail carrying a heavy auger up there and running an extension cord to power it but milwaukee tool recently launched a revolutionary idea in augers.

Turn the handle clockwise to extend the auger s cable or snake down into the drain towards your clog. I would run my snake through it attach my cutter then band it to the vent with a 2 x 1 5 or 3 x 1 5 or 4x 1 5 band. Make sure the plastic coating on the end of the snake is intact so it doesn t scratch the porcelain.