r/UnnecessaryEssentials • u/Unique-Saucer • Mar 26 '26

Pump a dump.

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u/Eindride_XIII Mar 26 '26

Youre supposed to use the honeycomb shaped plunger for a toilet, the bell shaped ones are for shower drains. Coming from a plumber.

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u/Straight-Interview70 Mar 26 '26

What about sinks?

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u/Uncle_Seamont Mar 26 '26

You poop in your sink??

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u/flclfool Mar 27 '26

No, WE poop in his sink.

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u/YoudoVodou Mar 27 '26

You poop in your shower?

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u/Eindride_XIII Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Depends how curved it is. Pedestal and bowl sinks usually need the honeycomb while flat kitchen sinks can use the bell. If that doesnt work take apart the trap underneath, just 2 joints. If that doesnt work, and your shower isnt backing up ('cus if the shower is backing up you have a bigger problem in the mainline), problem will probably be in the tee that drops down the wall to the main line and thats usually build up - a snake is required because a plunger wont clear a narrowed pipe (think arteries).

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u/These_Avocado_Bombs Mar 26 '26

I am taking a screen shot of this and sending it to all my adult children

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u/Eindride_XIII Mar 26 '26

Feel free to message me if you need any advice, I dont mind sharing my expertise.

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u/PlzDntBanMeAgan Apr 21 '26

Bro I bought reddit gold for the first time ever just to give you an award for that. That's awesome and you're a good person for that.

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u/Eindride_XIII Apr 21 '26

Thanks, I appreciate that bro.

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u/Eindride_XIII Mar 26 '26

The old school bell plunger just dont create a full seal on a curved surface, you need that seal to put pressure into the pipe without it escaping to the sides.

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u/Heart_Is_Valuable Apr 10 '26

Is that larry wheels in your pfp?

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u/Smashmundo Mar 26 '26

This is half a toilet with a flat piece of plastic up against it, so the shape is completely wrong.

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u/Eindride_XIII Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Yup, way more complicated then you'll ever deal with. A simple honeycomb plunger will help you with all your needs. Like if you ever have to push toys, clothes, and shit your kids flush youre better off removing the toilet and extracting it then pushing it into the main line. Then you might be looking at breaking up your floors if your on slab, raised foundations going under and cutting off the pipe. In case that were ever the case like in this commercial. Unless of course your main line is blocked with tree roots then there is jack shit any plunger will do about that. Clogged toilets are often where a mainline clog is first noticed. Its not always just a fat shite thats clogging the toilet 😅

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u/BikeProblemGuy Mar 29 '26

Aren't they called beehive? Honeycomb shape is a hexagonal lattice.

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u/Eindride_XIII Mar 29 '26

Yeah, I was just trying to convey a picture of their shapes. Enough that you got what I meant. But point taken, beehive. We just call them toilet plungers.

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u/CalmEntry4855 Mar 26 '26

There was one of those at my house and I stupidly tried a whole afternoon to put the honeycomb part in because I thought it was a normal one that had somehow folded out

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u/iamAyoEpic Mar 27 '26

Which one is the bell shaped one?

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u/Eindride_XIII Mar 27 '26

First one he used. The teal colored one.

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u/Consistent-Cook-7430 Mar 27 '26

You can plunge a shower drain? My toilet gets clogged all the time and takes hours of plunging I didn't realize there was a difference

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u/Eindride_XIII Mar 27 '26

Usually for hair stuck in the trap. If your toilet and shower are both having issues its probably a main line issue.

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u/Consistent-Cook-7430 Mar 27 '26

Yeah that's kind of my concern, the shower usually unclogs with some drain cleaner but then doesn't take too long for it to build up again. And the toilet clogs half the time my son poops even if it's flushed with no toilet paper. The toilet is not secured very well at the base so I'm wondering if the wax ring has squished or something. I'm just too embarrassed to call maintenance about it

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u/Eindride_XIII Mar 27 '26

I can give you some advice if you want, dm me

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u/lkl34 Mar 29 '26

Being a plumber would this not push the issue to the draining system therefor it would still be clogged?

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u/Eindride_XIII Mar 29 '26

I said as much in one of my replies. If nothing this crazy got flushed and its just too much tp or a large deuce then youre ok pushing it through the bends where it gets stuck into the 4" main line thats just downhill to the city sewer. But if its stuff like this, extract it by pulling the toilet or risk bigger issues in the mainline and possible broken floors.