Comments on: One Beer Projects: Fixing Your Toilet http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Sat, 17 May 2008 01:03:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: ToolFreak http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/#comment-237821 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:09:22 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/#comment-237821 Maybe the reason the plumbers don't want you using Drano/Liquid Plum'r to clear a clog is that it works. If the plunger/snake won't cut it and you don't have a compressed air system to clear the pipe with, chemicals are a good last resort. A good bit of the time, paying to have a "pro" come out just involves them pouring professional strength chemicals to accomplish the same thing. Maybe the reason the plumbers don’t want you using Drano/Liquid Plum’r to clear a clog is that it works. If the plunger/snake won’t cut it and you don’t have a compressed air system to clear the pipe with, chemicals are a good last resort. A good bit of the time, paying to have a “pro” come out just involves them pouring professional strength chemicals to accomplish the same thing.

]]> by: Chris http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/#comment-135653 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:08:17 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/#comment-135653 I have been told by more than one plumber that you should NEVER use Liquid Plumber or Draino in a clogged toilet. The chemical reaction that it uses to unclog a drain can crack a porcelain toilet and that would put you up shit’s creek, literally. If the plunger doesn’t work call a pro. One more thing, a good tip for getting the last bit of water out of a tank or toilet is to use a shop vac. I would empty the canister on the vac first and remove the paper filter but it works much better than a sponge and is easier than cleaning water up off the floor. I have been told by more than one plumber that you should NEVER use Liquid Plumber or Draino in a clogged toilet. The chemical reaction that it uses to unclog a drain can crack a porcelain toilet and that would put you up shit’s creek, literally. If the plunger doesn’t work call a pro.

One more thing, a good tip for getting the last bit of water out of a tank or toilet is to use a shop vac. I would empty the canister on the vac first and remove the paper filter but it works much better than a sponge and is easier than cleaning water up off the floor.

]]> by: William http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/#comment-62175 Mon, 07 May 2007 17:08:21 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/#comment-62175 My dad has been a professional plumber for 25 years and between this OBP and the Fixing a leaky faucet you have covered 50% of his work. Now you just need to cover a unclogging a sink / tub drain which I also a One Beer Project and you'll have 75%. I think you made changing a wax ring sound a little harder than it is. Its pretty straight forward just a little time consuming. Cleaning the old wax and making sure its set and not still leaking isn't quick but its not bad. My dad has been a professional plumber for 25 years and between this OBP and the Fixing a leaky faucet you have covered 50% of his work. Now you just need to cover a unclogging a sink / tub drain which I also a One Beer Project and you’ll have 75%.

I think you made changing a wax ring sound a little harder than it is. Its pretty straight forward just a little time consuming. Cleaning the old wax and making sure its set and not still leaking isn’t quick but its not bad.

]]> by: benjamen http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/#comment-59905 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:32:03 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/#comment-59905 After I had just listened to the fixing your toilet episode this morning, I almost created a case of beer project for myself. I was putting up some moulding in the kitchen on the wall shared with the bathroom. I started nailing up a piece with my finish nailer and after 3 or 4 nails I hear a ring, like somebody had struck a bell. I asked my wife weather she had heard it too, or if I had just imagined it. Unfortunately she had. So I dug up my tape measure, went to the basement and figured out where my drain stack was. Then I came back upstairs and measured to exactly where I sunk the last nail. I swore a little and broke for some lunch. After lunch, I cut a whole in the wall to see how bad the damage was. I was very lucky, the nail bent right where it had struck the stack. I pulled off the moulding and removed the nail and there was a little gouge in the copper pipe where the nail hit, but it was still intact. Two things saved me: My house is old enough, or the builder was feeling rich enough to use copper instead of PVC for the drain stack. Two I didn't hit the pipe dead on. Even though I was above where the toilet came in, I was only about a foot above right at floor level. It still could have been bad. Moral of the story: Always know where your drain stack is when you are doing anything in a 10 foot radius . After I had just listened to the fixing your toilet episode this morning, I almost created a case of beer project for myself. I was putting up some moulding in the kitchen on the wall shared with the bathroom. I started nailing up a piece with my finish nailer and after 3 or 4 nails I hear a ring, like somebody had struck a bell. I asked my wife weather she had heard it too, or if I had just imagined it. Unfortunately she had. So I dug up my tape measure, went to the basement and figured out where my drain stack was. Then I came back upstairs and measured to exactly where I sunk the last nail. I swore a little and broke for some lunch.

After lunch, I cut a whole in the wall to see how bad the damage was. I was very lucky, the nail bent right where it had struck the stack. I pulled off the moulding and removed the nail and there was a little gouge in the copper pipe where the nail hit, but it was still intact.

Two things saved me: My house is old enough, or the builder was feeling rich enough to use copper instead of PVC for the drain stack. Two I didn’t hit the pipe dead on. Even though I was above where the toilet came in, I was only about a foot above right at floor level. It still could have been bad.

Moral of the story: Always know where your drain stack is when you are doing anything in a 10 foot radius .

]]> by: Freddie http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/#comment-59471 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:55:56 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2007/04/27/one-beer-projects-fixing-your-toilet/#comment-59471 Its all crap.(Joke) How about doing a one beer on visiting a junkyard. I've never done it. How does it work? Its all crap.(Joke)

How about doing a one beer on visiting a junkyard. I’ve never done it. How does it work?

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