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Hi a colleague and I have a bit of a predicament. There is one western toilet at our workplace (a disabled toilet at that) because nobody else uses it, we decided we should give it the treatment is so deserved. However... We have a bit of a blockage issue. Nothing will flush!!! The water pressure is so low here. We have left it for a week now with the lid down, and nobody has noticed yet. We checked on it again a few moments ago, and well it seems to have expanded in size! How can we get rid of it... Without getting our hands too dirty?
Leave the lid up so it is easier to notice, then maybe some cleaning staff will see it.
Maybe your workplace has a janitor that could help.
Other options.
- Get a stick or even better a plunger
- Hire a cleaner
- Apply for other jobs
Scandinavian:
note. If you get it fixed. you can probably mitigate the risk of it happening again by being conservative with the paper and maybe get a bucket and manually poor in water for flushing, like it is commonly done with the squatters
Scandinavian:
hang on, this question comes shortly after you wrote about lack of bowelmovements.
GuilinRaf:
It must have all come out at the same time, hence the blockage.
Not that it hasn't happened to any of us before however....
After a week, the fecal matter will decay and cause a foul smell to spread throughout the building. You will need to call a HAZMAT team.
GuilinRaf:
TIC
They probably wont know the difference.
HAZMAT? Here the "protective gear" of a HAZMAT worker is rubber boots and his t-shirt covering his nose....
Buckets of water might do the trick.
After that it's maybe safer not to use it again.
A wave of brown colored water raced across the floor, killing all in its way with the stench of death, like a turd colored horse of the apocalypse, slaying without mercy or hesitation. The few smart folks pulled their shirts over their noses, and fled the scene of desolation.
Maybe it was just for decoration? You know, "status symbol"?
GuilinRaf:
"... we decided we should give it the treatment it so deserved."
Not at the same time, I hope....?
Go to the local pharmacist or construction place. Buy lime. Sprinkle the lime liberally over the corpse. If anyone sees you, plead "allowed religious practices according to Chinese law." Then use bucket after bucket of 'Holy water' to send the corpse to the hereafter. Or wait until after an office-sponsored banquet, say that the food was a "little off". Visit the latrine. Scream your lungs out then emerge to say, "Houston, we have a problem here."
buy a bottle of 84 bleach and pour the whole bottle in the toilet and let it sit, should be gone in 3 days.
I got my toilet unclogged with hot (boiling) water, vinegar & a plunger. It will stink big time, (& you'll need a shower right after the procedure), but you'll get it through.
Use traditional Chinese method adapted by westerners. Get a really big firecracker and drop it in the toilet. This may clear the blockage or get a new toilet replacement. Have your co-workers watch it while you slip away for added fun.
I can just picture the plumber finally being called in to fix the problem
he will take one look and with no expression on his face
mutter the words
This is China
then close the door and walk away after of course
collecting a fee from those dastardly Westerners
who put all that cleaning crap down the bowl LOL
philbravery:
here is an idea
tell somebody you dropped your wallet with 5000 Yuan in it down the toilet
it will be clear in no time
but you will have to think of a way to get the floors and walls clean
I had to have my toilet snaked to clear it. The hard part was getting googles to fit my little friend.
I don't know how, when (today sometime) or who looked... But it has finally been cleaned. The problem we face now is that they know it could have one of two people. Even though it was both of us... (Not at the same time as some people would believe).
philbravery:
maybe you need to build a shrine to the Toilet God ... MeCrapper
the keeper of clear pipes
I have prayed over the alter a few times after heavy drinking
and is a good place to contemplate the world
also
this would be the perfect excuse to burn incense