How To Remove a Toilet Clog When Snaking Won’t Work [Pictures]

In my girls bathroom the toilet was clogged. That happens from time to time so I got out the large toilet snake I use and snaked it out. I usually only have to snake it 2 or 3 times and that usually fixes it, but this time it did not.I snaked it 10 times and the water still would not flush correctly.

So I headed down to Home Depot and got a new wax ring for the toilet because my guess was the girls had put something down the toilet that was jammed in the toilet’s “P” trap.

So to remove the toilet I did the following:

Turn off the main water line and unscrewed the water line from the toilet:

Then I removed both screw caps:

Then I removed the blots on both sides of the toilet:

I lifted off the toilet. Before that I cut the chaulk around the toilet so it would not tear the flooring when I lifted it up. I then tilted the toilet back so I got get the the P-trap underneath.

Then I went hunting for the clog (obstruction) with a screw driver and found it right away. It appears to be a very small toilet brush that must have been the previous owner’s because I have never seen it before.

Then I put on the new wax ring:

And installed everything – and it fixed the clog where the snake would not.

Took about an hour to complete the toilet repair.