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A slow flushing toilet/commode Tip

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Own a home over 50 years old with two bathrooms. Had replaced one commode years ago and it works OK. The oldest commode one had a problem flushing. Water would rise in the bowel to near the top and slowly drain. I'm in the country and have a septic tank, so thought I had a clogged line to the slow flushing commode. Had a plummer come out and roto-root the line, which seemed to solve the problem. Plummer had run a camera down the line too and told me it looked like I had a separation in the line, that I'd have the same problem in the future. Pluming company I used had a free, 2nd roto rooting if needed.

Well, wife and I seldom used the bathroom with the problem commode and its line. So, about 7 months later, some of our kids are going stay with us with their kids and I checked the commode......slow flush was back. Called the Pluming company and a different plummer came. I told him about the possibly separated line and demonstrated how slow the commode flushed. He will ask me if I had any dish washing soap/detergent, that he wanted to try something. I brought him a bottle of Dawn dish washing liquid soap. He will swish a circle of it in the commode, wait a second or two and then flush it. There was an instant flush. I asked him, mind explaining to me just what happened. "I'm not sure myself," he answered. But then, he explained he visited with his grandfather a few days before, who was a long retired master plummer. During visit, Granddad had told him of an old trick he used to use to determine if a commode was too old, that needed to be replaced due to build up inside it....use dish washing soap.

I posted this story on another fix-it an repair type forum on another website shortly after it happened. Two or so gents with old commodes tried in in their slow flushing commodes.....it worked for them too.
 
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