What happens when you are in the toilet to attend the nature’s call and suddenly find your flush not working? May be because of clogged drain? Or something else! Let’s find out. Read on Let us know the working of a toilet flush. When a toilet is flushed, water rushes from the tank, through the valve seat, around the rim, and through a siphon jet chamber built into the porcelain at the front of the bowl. As the water encircles the rim, some washes down through the rinse holes in the underside of the rim. The rush of water causes a cleansing action and creates enough force to push waste out through the back of the bowl and down into the waste pipe.

To know what went wrong in the system, open the tank and check the water level. If the water level is low, it means there may not be enough force to kick off the draining action.

On the other hand, if the water level is fine, the rinse holes may be clogged with some deposits. If it is hard water, minerals in water may get deposited in the rinse holes. You can use lime remover which can dissolve the minerals built in the toilet’s channels.

Use a short piece of coat hanger to clear the rinse holes which are located just under the rim or near the back of the bowl.

Here is another method to clear the contamination in the flush-water tank.

Dose 50ml of Household bleach (Milton) cleansing fluid per 15 litres of flush water. Add directly into the flush-water tank and fill with clean water. Leave the solution in the tank for 24 - 48 hours, depending on the degree of contamination. Empty the tank by draining or flushing into an empty, clean waste holding tank. Rinse the flush-water and waste holding tanks thoroughly with clean water. Always empty the waste holding tank at a designated location. Do not use together with other products. Depending on the degree of contamination a second treatment may be required.

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