Toilet blockage - solution or new toilet required?

[DanielDeronda]

I've got quite an old toilet, at least 20yrs+ old maybe in property before I moved in.

Has worked fine until last couple of months. I may have put too much toilet paper in & that's caused the blockage.

Have used various options like washing up liquid then hot water. Works temporarily but still get the issue. Have cleared any excess paper & poo but still no solution. Don't have a plunger.

Will it be better to just get a new more modern toilet plumbed in or can the existing one be saved?

I'll be renovating the bathroom anyway but not until 2025 at earliest.

 

[Alec_t]

Fill a big bucket with water and empty it quickly down the loo. Repeat as needed. Failing that, buy a plunger.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Buy a plunger!

Monument MP1600 Toilet Plunger

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Andy

 

[Deluks]

Empty all the water out and pour down a bottle of Spirit of Salts (read the instructions, safety glasses, ventilate room etc.)

The first time I did this, it dislodged a huge chunk of limescale which had built up up inside the bend, have had far fewer issues since.

 

[Elkato531]

Spirit of Salts

Very dangerous stuff. Try all mechanical methods first. If you do use any chemicals and they don't work, be sure to warn anyone who looks at it subsequently and tell them what you have used.
Also, don't mix chemicals. This can lead to reactions producing heat and poisonous gasses such as chlorine.

 

[Mottie]

Also, don't mix chemicals. This can lead to reactions producing heat and poisonous gasses such as chlorine.

My mate had a slow draining shower so he bought some stuff to pour down it. His wife had the same idea. Neither of them told the other. She put her stuff down and went to bed. He came home from the pub and put his stuff down. Immediately a cloud of gas came up and nearly knocked him out. His wife had to get an ambulance and they took him to hospital and kept him on oxygen for the night. Could have been nasty if his wife hadn’t woke up and heard him coughing and gasping for breath.

 

[RrogerD]

I use Kilrock.
Pour in a kettle of hot water, then the measured amount of kilrock and leave for an hour or so. Give a good, a VERY good scrub and plunging motion with the loo-brush and this should loosen and wash-away any limescale build-up.
In the past, I have also been on my hands and knees and, using a small screwdriver, 'chiselled' the deposits off as far as I can around the bend. Messy, but seems to work.

 

[Hugh Jaleak]

You're condemning the Pan, when it may not even be the issue! What the pipework arrangement off the back of the outlet like? Possible the issue lies here, and not in the outlet to the pan.