Sander Scott explains why modern toilets clog and leave floaties behind. Holding down the flush lever longer helps fully evacuate the bowl, advice from a plumber he met on Facebook Marketplace.
So this may be gross to talk about, but it's a real life thing, and that is that if your toilet is getting frequently clogged, or maybe you have some floaties after doing a number 2, there's a reason for that with today's modern toilet. So you have to think about it. So let me help you with why that tends to happen and how you can avoid it. So it all comes down to the flush itself. So if you look in here, you can see down in there, that's the flap. That when it opens up when you flush the toilet, that opens up and lets the water out. So what often happens is people just do a quick flush and notice that flap popped up and then went back down, and notice there's still a lot of water left in there. That's why you'll have a lot of floaties. If you want to make sure that you don't have any floaties and that your toilet doesn't get clogged, you have to hold this down longer. Watch, hold it down longer, and it totally evacuates all the water out, and then you drop it down to let it fill back up. I just got that pro tip from an old crusty, uh, plumber who's been plumbing for years and years. Just stopped by his Facebook Marketplace sale and got him talking, and he shared that little gem with me. Thought I'd pass that along.
