bet you didnt know....

[rainbabies]

that you cant flush baby wipes down the toilet.

$350 bucks to snake the pipes. goosh! comes about 9 months worth of baby wipes all over my basement floor.

this, after the sink, tub, shower and toilets in two bathrooms wouldnt move.

thankfully we have a third bathroom(that is on a different set of pipes). plumbers make a crap load of money when you call them at 9pm. but they were nice enough to leave, come back first thing in the morning...so we could "avoid that extra emergency pay"

note to self: babywipes dont disolve.

oh, and of course we had to pay it..i wanst about to ask our land lord....because we're IDIOTS!!!

yikes!

DH had to snake our pipes once. He refused to call a plumber. He worked on it for about 2 hours and then came out of the bathroom swearing and laughing and saying something about being "the Man!"

I've never flushed baby wipes, but after the snaking incident, I'm sooooo careful about the toilet.

Sorry you had to learn such an expensive lesson!
:therethere:

[DCJenn]

Actually- the Petey tampon eating exercise made us think long and hard about what to flush and what not to flush and we decided that it's cheaper to flush than to deal with a $1000 doggie endoscopy...

Toilet Roto-rooter is much less expensive than doggie Roto-rooter.

Jenn

PS- I did know about the baby wipes because my parents have a septic system and they can't go in the septic system.

[rainbabies]

i kinda figured that it wouldnt be a good idea...but i thought that using one a day to wipe ds's buns would be okay.

[Momo]

Sylvia...go to target or walgreens & buy their flushable wipes.

[peggyfromwastate]

DH has snaked out our potties several times- not for wipes, but for flushed makeup and for flushed toys. (Makeup from my mom, freak accident, and toys from a charmer whom I was babysitting).

Anyway, it's a good skill to use.

We do use the flushable wipes for the "big" kids. They work fine, and there are lots of different brands. Pampers and Huggies have them, as well as other types too.

[houseelf]

ACK...so sorry for the PITA.

Kelly

[Momo]

Sylvia...go to target or walgreens & buy their flushable wipes.

when you become the rich dawkter's wife you can spring for the names brands if ya want :>

My uncle recently had to snake their upstairs toilet because it wasnt working correctly. His 3yo son came up to "help him" and says
"daddy whats wrong" my uncle explains that the toilet isnt working correctly, to this my adorable little redheaded cousin replies " well it isnt because I flushed my sandal down there" and casually walks away.

[DCJenn]

OMG- can you imagine?

My ex-husband and another guy owned a house and they rented out their basement to a third guy. Third guy had a piranha. Fish dies. He flushed it. (Um, it's NOT a goldfish, dude)

So, they had to call Joe's plumbing and the bill he left said, "snaked out something slimey."

Jenn