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PSA for the lounge
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Nov 15, 2018, 11:41 AM

If you, or your woman, or dog, or whatever, is flushing wet wipes down your toilet...STOP IT. NOW.

You want to know what makes me an old, grouchy curmudgeon? A $285 sewer clean out at 1 am because *someone* flushed a lot of stuff they've been told NOT to ever flush. Had I not helped the guy move his equipment around, he would have charged me $485, btw. Then I spent the next two hours cleaning up the mess he made.

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details on helping him move his equipment around?


Nov 15, 2018, 11:42 AM

~TOTE1

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Re: details on helping him move his equipment around?


Nov 15, 2018, 11:57 AM



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we wash & re-use.


Nov 15, 2018, 11:46 AM

were yours the 'flushable' type? or the juans that explicitly say "do not flush..."

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I'm going to guess they were the ones that explicitly


Nov 15, 2018, 11:48 AM

say to NOT flush. That would match the indignation I received and complete refusal to believe the wet wipes caused the problem.

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I had a roommate that didn't know you could flush toilet


Nov 15, 2018, 11:53 AM

paper. We lifed together for a whole year before I noticed brown in the trash can.

Pretty cool, huh?

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I was a park ranger on summer break in college (Lutz)


Nov 15, 2018, 11:56 AM

for a couple of year. One of the glorious duties of this job was cleaning out the campground/park area bathrooms (you know, the outdoor cinderblock ones)


The park was heavily traversed by Central Americans.

They threw their doodoo paper on the floor and, sometimes, stuffed it in the blood bins where women put their jelly-stained muffrags.

I'm glad I worked with gloves. Some of the kids would even poop on the floor. I never knew kids could poop so big until I worked there. It was bigger than mine (the poop)

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Seriously...


Nov 15, 2018, 11:58 AM

You shouldn't be embarrassed by your micropoop. That 'size matters' thing is a myth.

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Mine looks more like pulled pork


Nov 15, 2018, 12:00 PM

than a banana shape. This has always been an issue for me and has always concerned me. I even watch my fiber intake.

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Again, talking about my


Nov 15, 2018, 12:00 PM

poop, no my weenie

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My wife didn’t find it funny when I told her this was what I


Nov 15, 2018, 1:03 PM [ in reply to I was a park ranger on summer break in college (Lutz) ]

was laughing at so hard


“the blood bins where women put their jelly-stained muffrags.“

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if no kids, why do you even have wet wipes


Nov 15, 2018, 12:25 PM

Greenr has probably spent more in wet wipes than FBcooch paid for his house with his 9 kids

I love having them around because of kids and get that oh so fresh feeling.

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I can't go back to just dry TP


Nov 15, 2018, 12:29 PM

to date, the 'discovery' of wet wipes has been the best thing to come out of having kids

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Re: I can't go back to just dry TP


Nov 15, 2018, 12:46 PM

So what do you do with the wet wipes once you wipe your ########?

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Re: I can't go back to just dry TP


Nov 15, 2018, 12:47 PM

https://www.tigernet.com/forum/message/we-wash--re-use-24484487

nah bruh, flush'em.

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So..got a plumber on speed dial yet?***


Nov 15, 2018, 1:26 PM



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been 10 years of flushing wipes


Nov 15, 2018, 1:30 PM

no problems.




unless, that is, they're the cause of my never-ending HVAC problems

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edit: 10 years of flushing *flushable* wipes***


Nov 15, 2018, 1:32 PM



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I refer to you this


Nov 15, 2018, 1:33 PM

https://www.tigernet.com/forum/message/Yes-I-saw-the-article-and-news-story-24485269

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Pro Tip PSA - BABY WIPES ARE NOT FLUSHABLE.


Nov 15, 2018, 12:40 PM

Moist toilet wipes such as Cottonelle are, and have passed industry standards to show they are.

About 60% of municipal pump clogs are from paper towels that wimmen use to sit on in public toilets. Less that 1 half of 1% are wipes that are deemed flushable.

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Re: Pro Tip PSA - BABY WIPES ARE NOT FLUSHABLE.


Nov 15, 2018, 1:15 PM



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Re: Pro Tip PSA - BABY WIPES ARE NOT FLUSHABLE.


Nov 15, 2018, 1:17 PM

I can smell that through my computer monitor

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lulz, I hadn't seen your post when I linked the pic.


Nov 15, 2018, 1:34 PM

For some reason that story made the news here---that image has been burned in my brain ever since.

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Worst job ever?


Nov 15, 2018, 1:35 PM

The divers that had to go down and clean that up.

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I still can't believe that with the water table in the low


Nov 15, 2018, 1:36 PM

country the way it is, they have 100 ft deep sewer wells.

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Did you see the tweet?


Nov 15, 2018, 2:32 PM

Some pretty interesting questions and replies.

https://twitter.com/ChasWaterSystem/status/1051913118962597888

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This is my industry :)***


Nov 15, 2018, 2:43 PM



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Cole @ Beach Cole w/ Clemson Hat


Ever went diving 90 feet down in a river of chit, Andy


Nov 15, 2018, 2:46 PM

Dufresne?

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Nope, but I did the electrical design of a pump station


Nov 15, 2018, 2:53 PM

that had the drywell 100' below the ground, with the wet well adjacent. It was a structural thing of beauty, had to use rock anchors to stop the thing from floating, and the walls were 5'-0" thick.

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Re: Ever went diving 90 feet down in a river of chit, Andy


Nov 15, 2018, 3:04 PM [ in reply to Ever went diving 90 feet down in a river of chit, Andy ]



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ROFL


Nov 15, 2018, 2:48 PM [ in reply to Did you see the tweet? ]

https://twitter.com/CapersKeith/status/1053081408883879936

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Yep. I think it's actually a lot deeper than that


Nov 15, 2018, 2:45 PM [ in reply to I still can't believe that with the water table in the low ]

Might be like 150' deep or more. That sewer goes underneath the Ashley river to plum island. Took a field trip there in college for my wastewater class. That well is deep af

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Whale duh. didn't you see the article in the P&C recently


Nov 15, 2018, 1:10 PM

warning NOT TO FLUSH WIPES. They had to send divers down into raw sewage to remove a huge clog caused by wipes

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/flushable-wipes-causing-clogging-mess-in-charleston-area-sewer-pipes/article_1fb9977e-d0b5-11e8-a4ee-f3906600973e.html

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Yes, I saw the article and news story.


Nov 15, 2018, 1:25 PM

As did Mrs Ineligible. And at that point I also reminded her that flushing those, as well as "feminine hygiene products" would stop up a sewage pipe. What I got in return:

"I've been flushing them for years and its never caused a problem."

Then about 3 weeks later, and I'm calling a plumber at midnight.

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Srs...Check that the outflow pipe into your septic tank


Nov 15, 2018, 1:31 PM

isn't extending too far into the tank. It took two backups for me to figure out that was causing a lot of our problems. The what appeared to be 3mm thick toilet paper wasn't helping, either.

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No septic tank..city sewer.


Nov 15, 2018, 1:32 PM

And to make it even better, we don;t have a clean out at the house. Not sure how this got by the home inspector, but I can't find a clean out. It may be in the neighbors yard...on the other side of our fence. Plumber had a to pull a toilet and go from there.

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That story has so many inaccuracies it isn't even funny.


Nov 15, 2018, 1:58 PM [ in reply to Whale duh. didn't you see the article in the P&C recently ]

Just to start:

"Only nonwoven, biodegradable wipes break down in water, like toilet paper."

First off TP isn't considered a wipe. It is paper (all paper does not break down BTW). Unless a nonwoven is designed to be flushable it should not be flushed. Most nonflushable wipes no have a "Do not flush" logo on the package (see below).

"Most commercial brands are woven, more like cloth than tissue." Where the Samhell does he come up with that? In reality, the only woven wipes left are used in industrial applications with strict hazmat disposal requirements (and is also a very small percentage of the total wipes market).

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He probably just asked the sewer people***


Nov 15, 2018, 2:00 PM



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Re: He probably just asked the sewer people***


Nov 15, 2018, 2:08 PM



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Do me a favor and try this trick


Nov 15, 2018, 2:36 PM [ in reply to That story has so many inaccuracies it isn't even funny. ]

fold a few sheets of TP and put it down in the terlit water. Let it sit for 24-48 hours. After that amount of time come in and take a #### on it. It disintegrates.


Now do the same with wet wipes. They do not disintegrate.

By the time toilet paper gets to the treatment plant it has pretty much broken down into nothing but wipes do not break down. They clump together and can cause clogs for the pump station

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Wet wipes do not. Flushable wet wipes do.


Nov 15, 2018, 4:07 PM

A little light reading whilst you drop a tdrake:

http://www.inda.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Guidelines-for-Assessing-the-Flushability-of-Disposable-Nonwoven-Products-Ed-4-Final.pdf

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And when a City bans "flushable" wipe it only


Nov 15, 2018, 4:10 PM

exacerbates the pump clogging problem because the population can't get the flushable version and use non-flushable wipes like baby wipes or WetOnes.

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Charleston Cty Water say none of them are flushable


Nov 15, 2018, 4:23 PM

After spending $285 getting my pipes snaked out (literally and figuaretively), I believe'em.

https://twitter.com/LaFrancis327/status/1053008332338941952

https://twitter.com/ChasWaterSystem/status/1053818380988411905

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Right. None of them are flushable. Those wipes are not


Nov 15, 2018, 4:27 PM

supposed to be flushed.

They didn't say they found wipes designed to be flushable in the pile.

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I doubt they examined that pile.


Nov 15, 2018, 4:33 PM

Read the exchange--theyy said is nothing is to be flushed except for human waste and toilet paper.

They also said NO wipes are flushable, no matter what the wipes say.

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And they would be very wrong.


Nov 15, 2018, 4:43 PM

From a UK Study:

The majority of the sewer blockage material recovered comprised of
non-flushable wipes that were not designed to be flushed and should not have been disposed of via the WC. Baby wipes accounted for over 75% by weight
of identifiable products . Surface wipes, cosmetic removal wipes and feminine hygiene products accounted for approximately 20% by weight of identifiable products..The products recovered that were designed to be flushed accounted for ... approximately 0.88%

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I think I'll trust them and my plumber on this one.


Nov 15, 2018, 5:01 PM

They're the ones I have to pay if you're wrong.

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I have five daughters and they have a mother. nopigs


Nov 15, 2018, 1:20 PM

You have no clue.

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I think I do.


Nov 15, 2018, 1:26 PM

I was hosing chit of a shower that backed up.

I have a clue.

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