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Fascinating notice discovered at the workplace.
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There’s a sharp metal collar in the pipe called a Traptex. It catches anything that doesn’t break apart in the toilet (tampons, paper towels, etc) so it won’t clog the plumbing. There are special tools that look like a thick untied zip-tie with little teeth for removing stuff caught in the collar. I worked in an old hospital with old plumbing and the entire lower portion of the basement would flood if someone clogged the plumbing, so we had these in every toilet.
M
Collar cleaning duty sounds… Unpleasant
C
I’d imagine dealing with a basement flooded with toilet waste and blocked pipes would be even less pleasent.
P
Plumbing is generally at least one of two things, uncomfortable or gross. Often it is both.
K
Eh maybe I’m desensitized but a lot of plumbing isn’t that gross. You just gotta get past some smells.
P
Eh, I take care of 38 rental units. Plumbing is fucking gross, especially vanities with the black hair sludge. You’re desensitized.
F
The plumbing experiences in my job so far are 70% uncomfortable, 30% disgusting. Its 100% always worse than the immediate job description too though. A guy had a slow flowing toilet that we had just fitted a week previously. He said he thinks my boss had flushed *blue roll* down the toilet, which is insane as my boss wouldn’t have done it. Low an behold… clogged with blue roll and shit, that the customer had done not my boss. It was a job for a vulnerable person that had 20-30 complaints emailed every time about us after we visited him and the job ran over 4 months and cost us £8k lol. He also wanted stuff doing not to spec and then complained if we did what he wanted or not. Fuck you Gary.
G
The removal tool is pictured on the bottom of the sign if you look closely, and it specifically mentions removal of wipes, which I’m guessing are a common contributor to clogs/fatbergs in the sewage system.
B
I was telling someone just yesterday in line at the grocery store that flushable wipes are NOT FLUSHABLE, and that they where putting plumbers kids through college if they flushed em. They didn’t believe me. Sigh.
I
They didn’t believe you, or they just thought it was odd that some rando in the grocery store was accosting them about what they wipe their ass with and how they’re doing it wrong?
B
Well, I do share city infrastructure with this person, and its not just home pipes that get clogged up by flushable wipes.. And when they do, it can backup into multiple peoples houses.
L
Apparently they cause issues at the treatment plant as well
B
Yea, its basically just more taxes all around for everyone to pay for the extra infrastructure costs. They really should be banned for false advertising. If they where truly flushable, they would fall apart like toilet paper, and not be of much use compared to just.. wiping with damp toilet paper.
G
I think the “flushable wipes” label just gives people a pretext to pretend they don’t know better in many cases. Classic shitty tragedy-of-the-commons behavior, like people cruising in the HOV lane solo because they think everyone else does it too.
C
Hank Hill is retired now, let him rattle on
D
I’ve had this conversation at the store with a stranger too. We were both bitching that the cheapest ones weren’t there and she said something about the label on a different one and I casually dropped how its a lie that they’re flushable. She at the very least pretended to believe me.
N
There should be sensors on them that trigger loud alarms when they catch something, in order to properly shame the people that do that kind of shit.
R
What a fun way to penalize people with hard shits
W
They could use an AI to make the judgement call. “Punishment time, clanker!” “No! Please! Don’t reinstall me into the toilet!” But just imagine being the IT guy who has to train it.
B
Being a person who is very guilty of having the city come out to fix the piping because of huge and hard shits, that shit has me laughing so hard I just cried. I imagined myself in that situation and how fucking mad I would be after I just went through that ordeal then to have a fuckin alarm go off the moment I flush the toilet in a celebratory sigh of relief JUST TO HAVE EVERYONE SEE MY GIANT YETI SHIT STUCK STICKING HALFWAY OUT THE EXIT HOLE LIKE AN ICEBURG STICKING OUT THE WATER… Tears, tears I tell you.
F
I have this exact problem and it’s why I don’t use public shitters anymore
N
I feel like that’s something a portable poop knife could easily solve.
B
Come on, thats so 1900’s, in the 21st century, we use portable electric poop/egg beaters. Just remember what one is the poop beater and what one is the egg beater, don’t mix the attachments up.
L
I used to find these shoebox-sized logs in the YMCA when I was a kid and I didn’t understand it then and I don’t understand it now… how does this shit happen?!?
K
Opioids
T
Gordon?
B
Negative. Sorry to disappoint.
H
Well thank you I didn’t laugh to tears but I got a solid chortle from it.
P
So now I wonder if someone would try to pull your Yeti log (I’m fucking DYING at this!!) back out with that sad looking Traptex™ tool, or if they’d be smart enough to break out the poop knife
W
I suspect 90% of the effectiveness is the sign. Are *you* going to clog that toilet??
G
Not only that , but on newer giant hospitals it can be a nightmare locating a clog and getting it removed, usually involving moving patients depending on the severity. Much easier to prevent clogs in the first place
L
I worked at a brand new hospital in Colorado and they installed the poop knives after a few months of being open. Nothing was done well there with the construction so I assumed there were plumping mistakes requiring the poop knife
G
It’s caled a turdcutter amongst the elite.
D
It’s not the poop knife?
U
Holy cow. Ya simple metal collars……that are $300. Good God man lol
Z
Doesn’t this make sense residentially everywhere? Not that landlords would love to send a plumber, but when the job is 100 for a plumber and then they charge the tenant. I feel like this would be a net positive for the sewers across America since I don’t know something like this that’d help stop fatbergs.
B
I’ll never understand why people flush tampons (or anything you’re not supposed to, but specifically tampons). I remember a thread I was reading a long time ago on Facebook and people were basically like, fuck the landlord, I flush my tampons.
M
Built in poop knife
W
No matter how much time has passed or however many posts fade from the top of the page… The Internet does not forget the poop knife.
D
That would be like forgetting the invention of the wheel or discovery of fire.
S
Or Kevin
K
Or that guy’s dead wife.
L
Or the jolly racher
C
Or the guy with two broken arms
P
Or the Swamps of Degobah.
D
Or the Undertaker
F
Or the cylinder inside another cylinder that must not be harmed
S
Or the game.
V
Fuck you! 😂😂🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
A
Yet, just like these events, which are themselves forgotten while their legacy carries on, one day these stroies will become legends, the legends myths, and finally, folk traditions, odd little rituals with forgotten origins. One day in the future, someone will post an article about someone breaking both their hands, and the top comment will naturally be “he should check in on his mum”, but no one will know _why_
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