If I flush again, will it overflow onto the bathroom floor, soak through the ceiling, and drip onto the new rug downstairs? Yes. Yes it will. So we don’t flush.
It started like any other Tuesday morning. Coffee, kids’ shoes missing, the usual chaos. Then my spouse called up the stairs: “Did you flush something you shouldn’t have?”
In every home, there’s a fixture waiting to humble you. For us, it’s the upstairs toilet. For you? Don’t wait until it’s gurgling to find out. Would you like a more troubleshooting-focused version (checklist, tools needed, DIY steps) instead of a story style?
That’s the real lesson here. After an hour of DIY heroics, I finally called a professional. He arrived in 45 minutes, fed an industrial-grade snake down the pipes, and pulled out… a small, melted hair clip. From 2019. The toilet has been holding a grudge for four years.
There’s a special kind of dread that comes from hearing the words “upstairs toilet blocked.” Not the downstairs loo. Not the guest powder room. The upstairs toilet. The one that sits directly above the living room sofa.