Kempinger — #451 — Clearing a toilet with an obstructed drain
Carsten (Kempinger Rohrreinigung Berlin @ YouTube; Kempinger GmbH) is in a bathroom with a wall-mounted toilet that is draining very slowly. When the toilet is flushed, the water backs up in the bowl, before gradually draining away. He suspects that there’s something blocking it that has to be removed.
He removes the toilet from the wall, and empties the water inside it into a nearby bucket. The obstruction is clearly visible in the drain pipe within the toilet itself, and it appears to be a short-bristled rubber brush of some sort. The resident mentions having used it while cleaning the toilet, but accidentally lost it down the drain at some point, and wasn’t able to retrieve it using her hand. Carsten removes the brush, and disposes of it in a plastic bag.
With the blockage clear, Carsten remounts the toilet onto the wall. An initial test flush shows that it is draining much better than it did when he’d first arrived, although the water does still back up slightly. He does another flush, with some toilet paper, with the resident there to check if it’s flushing normally, and she suggests that it isn’t. He pours some buckets of water down, and does a test flush with a larger amount of toilet paper. It does seem to flush away, so there don’t appear to be any other significant obstructions. The customer seems satisfied that the toilet is flushing as well as it likely can.