Help! Idiot Plumbing Accident!

**Shoshana** · 11-16-2008, 04:32 PM

I'm the idiot.

I flushed a wash cloth down the toilet. The toilet has been flushed once after the OMG-I-Didn't-Just-Do-That-Did-I? flush.

The water went down both times, and the tank refilled.

The toilet is on the second story, if that matters.

Should I prepare for a call to the plumber, or might everything be okay?

**allthewiser** · 11-16-2008, 04:35 PM

More then likely everything will be fine.

**vigilant20** · 11-16-2008, 04:39 PM

I'd think you'd be ok. Some of the things that get flushed down there are bulkier than a washcloth.

**YankeeMom** · 11-16-2008, 05:41 PM

I don't know how many washcloths my youngest dd flushed down the toilet when she was two before I caught on to what she was doing. My washcloths kept coming up missing & I couldn't figure it out until one day I caught her holding a washcloth into the flushing toilet, watching it "swirl" around before she let it go

Long story short, my toilet never stopped up. Yours should probably be fine

**Karla** · 11-17-2008, 02:52 AM

All should be fine...I think it would have plugged up by now if it was going to.
If thats the worst that gets flushed consider yourself lucky...LOL I still can't believe some of the things my kids tried to and did flush.

**TheRootedNomad** · 11-17-2008, 07:43 AM

We have signs at work in the bathrooms across from all the toliets that say:

Please flush toliet pare only! No toys trucks, gum, femine products, paper towels, dolls, underware, candy wrappers you are trying to hide, and so on.

I think a single washrag will probably be fine.

**DonnainME** · 11-17-2008, 08:20 AM

Reminds me when my DS flushed a toy that had a string on it. It got stuck. we couldn't get it removed and bought a new toilet. LOL

**della92** · 11-17-2008, 09:06 AM

I did the same exact thing a couple years ago. I had been moping on hands and knees with a wash cloth. I usually empty the bucket in the toilet, but I had forgotten to take out the wash cloth, it went down so fast that I couldn't catch it in time. I assume that the pressure from that much water at one time sent it straight to the sewer since it never clogged.

However this did happend just weeks after my husband had to take the toilet apart from the floor so that he could get a single paper towel that was in the S trap. I was so afraid that wash cloth was going to clog and he'd have to take it apart again-but it didn't and we are still happily married!