• MudMan@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    9 months ago

    So this is a US thing, with the weird half-full-of-water bowls, right?

    I’ve had a messy clog maybe once in my life, but evven then it didn’t just fill horrifically with water and overflow. It’s such a trope that all I can assume is that maybe US toilets do that sometimes?

    • samus12345@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      American plumbing sucks. I never once clogged a toilet in my 10 years living in Germany - those things would suck down ANYTHING. Here they sometimes just decide to back up for no visible reason.

      But like the other poster said, they rarely overflow - you just have a gross bowl of water to deal with trying to plunge it down.

    • Denvil@lemmy.one
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      9 months ago

      It happens occasionally, it’s not like they overflow after one flush. You flush, notice the water isn’t going down, plunger it, and usually you’re good

      • variants@possumpat.io
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        9 months ago

        Plus there’s a knob where the toilet water hose connects that you can turn off if you see it filling up so that it doesn’t overflow

        • spauldo@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          9 months ago

          That won’t stop it from overflowing. You need to pop the lid off the toilet, push the float down, and unhook the chain going to the flap.

          • moody@lemmings.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            9 months ago

            The flap should stop the toilet from flushing once the tank is empty. You shouldn’t need to do anything manually to stop it. That’s why people are concerned that your toilet overflows. A single flush should never cause your toilet to overflow, even if it’s clogged.

            • spauldo@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              9 months ago

              Yes, but people tend to have the habit of flushing at least twice in hopes the second time works, despite past experience.

              • MudMan@kbin.social
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                9 months ago

                This entire conversation confirms that apparently yeah, US toilets do this and as usual Americans will blame just about everybody for a problem that is readily solvable instead of actually fixing it.

                I didn’t think I was gonna end up with toilets as a metaphor for, you know, health care, political corruption and gun control, but here we are.

                • spauldo@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  9 months ago

                  Sure, I’ll just smuggle in European toilets to replace the perfectly serviceable toilets in my house.

                  Shall I remove the toilet seats and paper as well to really get that “Spanish gas station” feel?

                  Or maybe - just maybe - it’s not a big enough problem for anyone to take the time to fix.