Best pooping methods for a low-flow toilet

[Nekoi.Inukuma.00]

Not a plumber, just a homeowner and DIY guy.

Fuck it, I'm just gonna post some of this shit and if you can find me, good on you.
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So here we have the shitter drain, not because the shower leaks but because the toilet does and sometimes you get a little poopie

Concrete slab, with a drain. Makes sense with that crappy built-in shower. Does that drain back up too? And is this a converted garage apartment?

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Here you can see the giant hole in the ceiling, that most of the rodents come through, yes that is plumbing, no I don't know what it goes to. You can see in the background an attempt to cover up this hole but the landlord unfortunately stopped giving a fuck and here we are.

That looks like a cleanout for the upstairs sewage, also looks like it's been patched a few times. Is that actually inside your living room, or is this a patio of some sort?
Also, are those smaller 3/4" waterpipes actually outside the ceiling crawlspace? What third world shithole is this, or how much is the landlord bribing code enforcement?

If you want to fuck him over on the way out, call up your city's code enforcement department and give them a tour while you're packing up.

I forgot my favorite part, the little knob that does something.
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That looks like galvanized steel/iron piping. Looks old too. That's probably where the restriction is. Do you get a lot of rust in your water if you don't use it for a while?

Our house was built in the '50s and some of the plumbing dates back to then. We had a similar problem and had to tear that crap out and replace it. Damn pipes looked like how I imagine your average death fats coronary artery, restricted and clogged.

Looking at it again, this is attached to those water pipes below ceiling... Also, seeing that bubbling rust spot on that one pipe is disturbing; that will fail and blast that room with, if I had to guess, your hot water supply. Hell, if you wanted to screw with him more, after you're packed up, chip away at that rust spot a little before leaving, make it fail faster after you leave.

 

[Dyn]

Do your poos in a plastic bag and fling them out the window, obviously.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

Yeah, that helps but they're still not great afterwards unless you have amazing water pressure.

General question for the americans here: Is low line pressure a common problem in the states? Are water towers still a thing over there?
It must be done at this point:
3 bar average Evropeans, rise!

Germans can't help shitting on U.S. infrastructure, I was born this way, so I can't be held accountable.
On the downside many people flood their apartments by over-pressuring their washing machines for years by opening the screw-in faucet fully and never closing it off after use.
Because of that most EU market washing machines have external rube-goldstein'd magneto valves at the start of their hose, to protect weak soymachines from our stronk aryan water pressure. And because people can't into faucets, it appears. Cheap chinese washers are even delivered with a screw-in-between backlash valve, so their machine's janky internal valves don't waterhammer the faucet loose by closing to fast and hard.
Just mentioning it, so you feel better about it.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Bulk up on fiber, bean burritos hell even Metamucil.

Choke that bowl and make it pay.

 

[A Cardboard Box]

Just shit in the trash can and throw it away in the dumpster.

 

[bile demon]

I think I finally figured it out. OP lives in Rick's airbnb.

 

[Fascist Frederick]

OP, during your last week there don't flush at all. Let it fill and overflow.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

General question for the americans here: Is low line pressure a common problem in the states? Are water towers still a thing over there?

My personal water pressure at home is a bit low for whatever reason but I'm a contractor so I've used the hoses at easily hundreds of residences and mine is definitely on the low end. The only times I've run into water that wasn't noticeably better than mine have been at homes with well water (they have an electric pump that generally can be adjusted, with most people running them on low to conserve water)

Yeah, water towers are still relatively common, at least in my neck of the woods. I'm not an expert on the municipal/civil engineering though so I can't tell you anything about what else might be done, like if there are pressure boosters or supplementary ground level tanks etc. You can get a booster for your home, mine doesn't have one, but I can't say how common they are since it's not something I've ever asked about

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

My personal water pressure at home is a bit low for whatever reason but I'm a contractor so I've used the hoses at easily hundreds of residences and mine is definitely on the low end. The only times I've run into water that wasn't noticeably better than mine have been at homes with well water (they have an electric pump that generally can be adjusted, with most people running them on low to conserve water)

Yeah, water towers are still relatively common, at least in my neck of the woods. I'm not an expert on the municipal/civil engineering though so I can't tell you anything about what else might be done, like if there are pressure boosters or supplementary ground level tanks etc. You can get a booster for your home, mine doesn't have one, but I can't say how common they are since it's not something I've ever asked about

Yeah, germany is pretty insane compared to what you describe, proper, code correct installations have to withstand 10 bar water pressure and in some regions, real line pressure is up to 8 bar. "Pressure booster" pumps for normal family homes are unheard of, except for really tall apartment complexes. But I guess some people might use well water and thus have a pump for that. No water towers, btw. We have one in our city but it's defunct and now a minor, historic landmark.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Water pressure gauges are like $10 so I might grab one just for fun since I can write it off for my job lol. I want to know exactly how jealous I should be. I've been doing a ton of plumbing the last few weeks so it won't even look like an odd purchase in my trashbag full of receipts

I think most of our plumbing in the US is rated for 150psi which is 10.34 bar so sounds like our minimum standards are roughly comparable

 

[FrigginWeeb]

save up your money and splurge on Haribo sugar free sour gummy bears, bad mexican beer, pretzel sticks and as many tacos as you can scarf at taco bell. Landlord will be forced to buy a high flow toilet after that armageddon.

 

[Taser Confetti]

Fuck it, I'm just gonna post some of this shit and if you can find me, good on you.
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So here we have the shitter drain, not because the shower leaks but because the toilet does and sometimes you get a little poopie

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Here we have our window enforcers, none of that dark stuff is dirt, just dead bugs that no one wants to move because it might displease our guardians. You may ask, why keep the window open and that is because our apartment has a direct line to the septic tank for the one above us and it always smells like poopy, I wish I wasn't alive.

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Here you can see the giant hole in the ceiling, that most of the rodents come through, yes that is plumbing, no I don't know what it goes to. You can see in the background an attempt to cover up this hole but the landlord unfortunately stopped giving a fuck and here we are.

I'd show you the rest but those were highlights.

Do you live in America? Because I've visited homes in bad parts of Mexico nicer than that.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Flush frequently. It's annoying, but it's what you have to deal with in an area with low water pressure.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the toilet problem isn't low water pressure. Low water pressure just means the toilet cistern will fill up more slowly after it empties.

Toilets are like capacitors, but for water. The problem is that he has a designed low-flow toilet. Well, the original problem.

 

[Spruce Supremacist]

many people flood their apartments by over-pressuring their washing machines for years by opening the screw-in faucet fully and never closing it off after use

I, uh... I never thought about doing that. Probably a good idea, considering I did once find the washing machine half-full of water after it sitting without use for over a month. It's definitely a good idea not to leave anything under pressure for prolonged periods of time if it's not designed for it (handheld bidet sprayers, for example).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the toilet problem isn't low water pressure. Low water pressure just means the toilet cistern will fill up more slowly after it empties.

Actually, OP's problem might just be that the toilet is old and there's a lot of limescale buildup at the exit hole that goes from the tank into the bowl (talking from first-hand experience here). I would recommend getting one of those old-timey toilet bowls where the tank is suspended high up if you want water to be bursting out at max power.


...or, if you have the will and patience, you can try and fix the current one yourself by disconnecting the tank from the bowl (preferably after emptying all the water out) and descale the offending orifice after assessing the situation.

 

[Swiss46]

FYI your landlord is never giving your deposit back and you're morally obligated to poor a bucket of kitty litter down the toilet before leaving.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I, uh... I never thought about doing that. Probably a good idea, considering I did once find the washing machine half-full of water after it sitting without use for over a month. It's definitely a good idea not to leave anything under pressure for prolonged periods of time if it's not designed for it (handheld bidet sprayers, for example).

Actually, OP's problem might just be that the toilet is old and there's a lot of limescale buildup at the exit hole that goes from the tank into the bowl (talking from first-hand experience here). I would recommend getting one of those old-timey toilet bowls where the tank is suspended high up if you want water to be bursting out at max power.
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...or, if you have the will and patience, you can try and fix the current one yourself by disconnecting the tank from the bowl (preferably after emptying all the water out) and descale the offending orifice after assessing the situation.

Oh man, this just triggered a flood of memories from a house I worked on decades ago. It wasn't that exact style, it looked a lot fancier with a brass coated pipe, handle, and pullcord, and the porcelain might have been one of those weird vintage colors. But the bathroom was so bizarre. The rest of the house was normal, but the bathroom felt like I was going through a time portal to a victorian mansion or something. There was fancy wallpaper, wainscoat beneath the chair rail, an antique chair with red velvet padding sitting in front of an antique vanity/mirror, and one of those giant cast iron tubs with a hoop hanging from the ceiling for a shower curtain and with the showerhead extending down directly from the ceiling in the center of the hoop, and some kind of oriental rug covering the tile so your feet didn't get cold when you got out of the shower

What a trip, I feel like I just wrapped up with that job

 

[anustart76]

I feel compelled to reference the King of the Hill episode.

I think my toilet is also a low-flow, I get around it by basically holding the flush lever down for a few seconds.

Fuck the EPA.

 

[GloryHole Stalker]

Lo flush toilets were a terrible idea. You end up having to flush more (unless you want to clog up the works) and waste more water then a nice high powered shitter. Shit, flush... if it's gonna big a big one flush at least once while shitting. then wipe-n-flush...if it's messy, you might need to flush the TP more than once, again so you don't clog the toilet.

 

[Battlefield42]

Fill a bucket up with water and keep it near your toilet. You can then double flush without waiting ages. Obviously this means you have to fill the bucket manually. Shouldn't be too bad if you don't shit like 4 times per day.

 

[Carlos Thin]

You have two choices, change your diet to either have rock hard feces so that it will come out of your ass like tiny pellets; or the exact opposite, diahirra dogshit that is basically just shit in liquid form.

Or become some sort of shit baron of public bathrooms; storing a giant turd all week to unleash to an unsuspecting public.