Clumping Cat Litter Toilet Clog

Swish the water around in both bowls and then set aside for an hour.

Clumping cat litter toilet clog. A flushable cat litter may cause clogs and a non flushable one definitely will. A friend of mine clogged up his toilet with a supposedly flushable litter don t know if it was world s best. In the other bowl place the kitty litter you want to test. Many types of cat litter are designed to absorb moisture and will expand by as much as 15 times its original size.

All you have to do to figure that out is look at the rock hard clumps it forms when the cat uses it. Here are some tricks i used to unclog it. To help loosen this mass pour several tablespoons of liquid dish soap down the toilet and let it sit for several minutes. Swish the bowl again.

Not all types of cat litter are flushable and flushing the non flushable cat litter can clog pipes. You will see that the toilet paper has disintegrated. We used clumping flushable litter for what seemed like forever without a problem. Apparently over time it turns to.

For overnight or after 4 hours combine 2 cups of white vinegar and 2 tablespoons of baking soda in a glass cup and pour that into the clogged toilet. Scoop out the kitty litter clumps into a plastic bag biodegradable bag if possible and dispose of it with your regular garbage you can use old food bags such as the inner lining of cereal boxes and cracker boxes old potato chip bags etc. Even if the granules of cat litter have already expanded somewhat at the time of flushing they could expand by much more once they enter the pipes. I made the mistake of throwing a large clump of clumping kitty litter down the toilet.

If your litter is still solid it has the potential to clog your drain. From the clogged toilet. Then use a plunger to break up the mass into smaller pieces. The clumping litter had been getting caught a little at a time and finally blocked a main pipe.

Because many varieties of cat litter clump when exposed to moisture the litter has a tendency to clump together and form a near solid mass in the bowl. However he did say he dumped a lot of clumps in all at once. Remove any toilet paper etc. Yeah it basically is concrete clumping kitty litter commonly contains lime and sodium bentonite drill mud to make it clump and it does a fantastic job of clogging sewer pipes.

Choosing to flush the wrong type of cat litter could be devastating to your plumbing. In one bowl place a piece or two of toilet paper.