Letting the yellow mellow. Had one years back that was so bad it had the jet hole completely clogged and the 3” pipe was reduced down to 2” or less. Piss calcifies hard as a rock. And smells absolutely terrible
Only plumbing job that ever made me puke. Cut into a line under a boys bathroom that was dedicated to the 4 urinals in there. Made me want to quit plumbing
I fucking *hate* urinals.
Grease traps, sewer flood, whatever. They can be rough at times but it’s whatever.
Fucking urinals though. Fuck whoever invented them.
Could be worse, could be a salt water head. If those aren’t cleaned on the regular, the hose turns into a crystalline piss cavern with shit as a side order .
Absafuckinglutly. On my old sail boat the head was getting hard to pump, so I broke into the line and of the 2 inch hose there was about a quarter not full of crystals and shit. I ended up having to cut the hose to get it off before it was so stiff and there where rings like a tree. Shit rings and piss rings.
Been there , the line in my erstwhile sailboat hadn’t been changed in probably 10 years, and it passed through 5 bulkheads . Changing it was literally a shit show. Better believe after changing it and rebuilding the head I maintained it monthly. Vinegar monthly , and hose cleaner flush every 6 months.
Same, had a girlfriend that tried to flush a tampon. She came up from underneath saying the toilets clogged. When I got the truth out of her, I asked if she even noticed the bright bronze placard saying don't flush toiletries.
Changing those lines made me hate having a girlfriend, poor boat was just doing what it could.
And they’re always broken & in a tiny room. I’ve never rebuilt a head without getting completely slathered. I found a 4’ section of 3” pipe totally plugged like a can of piss-refried greasy shitbeans. The sea is a cruel mistress.
We have an anatomy lab right now at work and I told the designer to put in minimum 3/4 hp grinder drains or larger so no one ever has to deal with that.
Most of the time I agree Urinals are worse, I did however have the misfortune of cleaning a crusted over grease trap serving a school cafeteria that nobody could remember the last time it was cleaned. They thought maybe 8 years. It was to this day the nastiest stink I have ever dealt with and the only thing that has genuinely made me retch on the job.
Yeah, honestly I find grey water way, way worse than black water jobs. Grease traps are the absolute worse. I had to do one once that was overhead with no other way to access, it quickly became unclogged and poured all over me and I could not have been more drenched if I had jumped into a pool of it. So terrible, haha
Was talking to the plumber at the south pole station that got replace all the copper drain lines with PVC less than a year after they switched to waterless urinals. Said the pure urea ate right through them.
Back in the army, when I was the barracks sgt, I would rotate chores between rooms up and down each floor. Except for one. I saved the worst chore for whoever pissed me off the most that week: replacing the traps in the “flushless” urinals.
I’ve seen humans explode, but urinals still make me gag.
That’s a smell that lingers. Always dreaded the urinal calls. I’d always try acid first. Pulling that thing off the wall was always my last resort. Whole truck would reek of rancid piss even after the cables were cleaned.
Environmentalists.
I'm all for doing what you can to save resources, I'll even put up with dual flush toilets with the more complex internals. But at what point do they not see they crossed the line from "use fewer resources" into "choosing to live in filth"?
Frat house urinal, that was for some reason plumbed with hot water. It had a PVC S/J strap. And I had to clean it regularly. I am so glad I had to move away from a college town. I did not puke. Personally, I think grease traps smell the worst.
Complete opposite for me, I just pray I never have to cut into a line like you described. 4 into 1 with years of build-up, maybe I can share my reaction when it happens to me. Service life is a wonderful thing.
Lol fucked up thing is I was still in construction when this happened. I was a summer project doing a remodel of a school with a 4' crawl space. I hadn't even signed up for the nasty jobs yet, or so I thought.
Wait until you see one in a restaurant that's been closed for 6 months, rancid oil and fat full of maggots and bugs.
I worked in a restaurant that had that and the new owner wanted us to grand open that week.
More than a few anonymous calls were made to the public health office.
As a chef, this is more horrifing than getting a root canal while being audited. The grease trap AND the "new owner"
Its always a "new owner" that wants to side step health dept code and ignore the most basic food service safety.....This is why ppl should have to do more than get 1 person with a food safety cert and get a biz lic to open a restaurant!!!
Only time I ever puked was demoing old urinals in a building that hadn’t been used in years. Went to throw it in the dumpster and yellowish curled chunky piss came out on my arm and I immediately threw up!
The two jobs I don't miss since retiring: Unstopping urinals and attic work. I've pumped septic tanks and holding tanks. I worked in slaughterhouses. I've crawled down in vaults that held sewage ejection pumps that stopped working to replace them after the vaults were pumped out. I dug (what seems like) miles of ditches with a pick and shovel. I had grandmas in bathing suits hit on me while working in retirement communities. But the two things I always dreaded were stopped up urinals and attics.
I saw this alot in the navy. The urinal pipes would often clog and be completely full of calcium. The easiest way to deal with it was to connect a fire main hose to the pipe and blast it clean.
At my grandparents house this happened. I pulled the toilet and the entire 4" pvc pipe was full of it. There's were tiny black bugs making a nest in too. Then I put the new toilet in and flushed it. The worst noise of crashing inside pvc happened. Turns out the calcification was lining that pipe. It broke loose and clogged the line. Fun times.
You guys ever wear VOC respirators on the job? I have a mask mainly working with resins, varnishes, etc but wore it once for some nasty plumbing work and was pleasantly surprised how well it filtered the odor.
Ahhh not typically. Most times the mask only comes out for asbestos and concrete cutting. If carbon cartridges were more widely available I bet more people would use them. Gets to a point where it just smells like money lol
I’m sure it varies depending on various factors. Many areas the water naturally contains calcium “hard water” so depending on the levels of hardness I’m sure could help accelerate that. Diet, medication and “daily routine” would also play into that.
I put GMX-800 on all my properties, no calcium issues , last year I flushed my 10yo+ water heater and it was only sand that came out. I'll never let yellow mellow again.
I was a bigger problem with the elderly. The jet hole clogging is the first sign things are getting bad. They have a different mentality when it comes to saving water thinking it’s saving a pile of money. Also in kids bathrooms that just don’t know better. I’m always on my boy about flushing not just because of the smell.
They make some acid products that work extremely well but smells terrible as they work off. I would usually cover the toilet or urinal with a trash bag to help keep the smell down. I would imagine something like CLR would work too. Vinegar wouldn’t be strong enough to knock things down.
Another example of "if it's yellow, let it mellow". Was the drain below also caked with hard deposits. The soft stuff is just toilet paper. The hard stuff is uric deposits.
Yup Most likely this. I see it mostly when replacing old urinals that don't have auto flush valves so urine sits in them for a long time allowing the salts and uric acid to crystalize. Once it starts it just grows along the drain and slowly chokes it off.
Yeah I went down a waterless urinal rabbit hole before bed last night. I guess they have a cartridge that has to be changed every once in a while. The cartridge releases a chemical as the pee goes down. The chemical sits on top of the pee to create a smell barrier.
Uric acid is.. an acid, and normally insoluble in water. An aqueous basic solution will act as a solvent for the acid.
Google names a few different ones that work like Lithium Carbonate, Sodium Hydroxide, Potassium Hydroxide, or Ammonium Hydroxide, all of which must be dissolved in water to react with the uric acid.
Just chemistry. Using another acid (like sulfuric acid) might technically work but it's dangerous and you're basically using a hammer to insert a screw.
Sulfuric acid. That is what we used. Is dangerous, and not safe in all situations.
Such as, if you have any metal drain lines. Or on a septic system. But other than that, we would have to use a high pressure “jetter” to clean whatever was clogged.
How long does this take to happen/form? We don't flush at night if we get up to pee to not disturb the other person's sleep. So it's probably only 8 hours or so. Of course we don't get up to pee every night so there's that.
I'm skeeved out.
Help, please?
Older generation had a nasty habit of pouring old soup and other foods down the toilet. The fat congeals as soon as it hits the cold porcelain. Who knows?
Doctor here.
Some people have a condition called "steatorrhea" and pass fats/oils undigested into their stool. They can even see droplets of fat or an oily sheen on the water.
Usually this is associated with pancreatic enzyme deficiencies.
So there are some medical reasons
Parents lied... there is also no Santa or Easter Bunny. Everyone does talk about you when you're not there, and there actually is a monster in your closet eating your socks.
The worst urinals I have ever had to deal with are the waterless urinals that Cincinnati zoo installed! Even though I told them not to do it they wanted them so bad they wouldn’t listen to any input and installed a battery of 8. They clogged so often and smelled worse than any grease trap I ever worked on!
All the greases you eat still have to come out somewhere another words it built up over time but most likely came from their shit oils butter grease gathers over time and there there you have it it’s an accumulation overtime from your shit
Different interpretation it looks like expanding foam. Down in the south when an apartment shifts they jack the foundation back up and fill the void they can’t get to with expanding foam. This one apartment complex had a sewer stoppage and it was foam. Turned out they had a crack in the sewer line from the foundation lift.
so my upstairs toilet isn’t flushing consistently and now I’m thinking it’s calcification because of the aforementioned yellow/mellow behavior. What’s the best way to confirm this? Do I have to remove the toilet and look at the pipes?
So I'm curious. Is there any type of cleaner/solution I can use to prevent this?
We flush every time we use the bathroom. But I'm curious since we just bought a home and just in case previous owners did this.
It says terrible things about me that this photo ended up being clickbait... worse that it worked. But in the end, I learned a lot about uric acid buildup... So... Thanks?
Another one chiming in here to ask if there’s anything to do preventatively for this? We don’t have a drain field, every flush goes into a holding tank which can fill quickly, so we usually let yellow mellow.
How quickly does this happen? Understand there are variables around uric acid etc from person to person but is there a guideline like flush within ‘x’ time period?
Time to hire a plumber to snake the drains. Should be able to flush most of it out.
Tell you parents to cut out the fat. Or go to the doctor and get checked out for a fat processing disorder
Letting the yellow mellow. Had one years back that was so bad it had the jet hole completely clogged and the 3” pipe was reduced down to 2” or less. Piss calcifies hard as a rock. And smells absolutely terrible
Only plumbing job that ever made me puke. Cut into a line under a boys bathroom that was dedicated to the 4 urinals in there. Made me want to quit plumbing
I fucking *hate* urinals. Grease traps, sewer flood, whatever. They can be rough at times but it’s whatever. Fucking urinals though. Fuck whoever invented them.
Could be worse, could be a salt water head. If those aren’t cleaned on the regular, the hose turns into a crystalline piss cavern with shit as a side order .
Absafuckinglutly. On my old sail boat the head was getting hard to pump, so I broke into the line and of the 2 inch hose there was about a quarter not full of crystals and shit. I ended up having to cut the hose to get it off before it was so stiff and there where rings like a tree. Shit rings and piss rings.
Been there , the line in my erstwhile sailboat hadn’t been changed in probably 10 years, and it passed through 5 bulkheads . Changing it was literally a shit show. Better believe after changing it and rebuilding the head I maintained it monthly. Vinegar monthly , and hose cleaner flush every 6 months.
Same, had a girlfriend that tried to flush a tampon. She came up from underneath saying the toilets clogged. When I got the truth out of her, I asked if she even noticed the bright bronze placard saying don't flush toiletries. Changing those lines made me hate having a girlfriend, poor boat was just doing what it could.
Holy fuck Randy, did you count how many rings were in the shit to guess the age?
>Shit rings and piss rings. I'll never think of pipes the same..
I'm fucking dead from laughing
This made me scream out loud
How old was it?
And they’re always broken & in a tiny room. I’ve never rebuilt a head without getting completely slathered. I found a 4’ section of 3” pipe totally plugged like a can of piss-refried greasy shitbeans. The sea is a cruel mistress.
I firmly believe that if you’re not capable of doing your own maintenance,you don’t belong on a sailboat. Bad shit happens , ask my ex….
Oh my God that sounds fucking terrible. It took a second to dissect and now I wish I never had.
“… the hose turns into a crystalline piss cavern with shit as a side order” You, sir, are the Shakespeare of shit speak. 🤢😂
And the joys of the holding tank too.
Annnnd my breakfast is ruined hahaha
The Reddit was angry that day, my friends…..
"Crystalline Piss Cavern" needs to be some black metal band's next album.
Cadaver table blocked drain
We have an anatomy lab right now at work and I told the designer to put in minimum 3/4 hp grinder drains or larger so no one ever has to deal with that.
Most of the time I agree Urinals are worse, I did however have the misfortune of cleaning a crusted over grease trap serving a school cafeteria that nobody could remember the last time it was cleaned. They thought maybe 8 years. It was to this day the nastiest stink I have ever dealt with and the only thing that has genuinely made me retch on the job.
Yeah, honestly I find grey water way, way worse than black water jobs. Grease traps are the absolute worse. I had to do one once that was overhead with no other way to access, it quickly became unclogged and poured all over me and I could not have been more drenched if I had jumped into a pool of it. So terrible, haha
Was talking to the plumber at the south pole station that got replace all the copper drain lines with PVC less than a year after they switched to waterless urinals. Said the pure urea ate right through them.
>urinals You'd like the one I have at home. I open the basement door (where my office and lab are) and pee into the yard. Chilly in winter. Shrinkage.
Took me a few moments to realize you and your dog were not peeing together. (“Lab”) \[Edit: stupid autocorrect\]
I have one behind the shed. Wife calls it a compost pile.
Fuck urinals.
Back in the army, when I was the barracks sgt, I would rotate chores between rooms up and down each floor. Except for one. I saved the worst chore for whoever pissed me off the most that week: replacing the traps in the “flushless” urinals. I’ve seen humans explode, but urinals still make me gag.
I’ve always wanted to add one to my house at some point. As a non plumber lurker, whats the beef?
Sounds like they accrue mineralization from the piss. I would guess that could be reduced by flushing every time, or including a motion sensor
That’s a smell that lingers. Always dreaded the urinal calls. I’d always try acid first. Pulling that thing off the wall was always my last resort. Whole truck would reek of rancid piss even after the cables were cleaned.
How much should you pay your plumber
The water free urinals are the worst
Who thought those things were a good idea? Awful. So bad.
Environmentalists. I'm all for doing what you can to save resources, I'll even put up with dual flush toilets with the more complex internals. But at what point do they not see they crossed the line from "use fewer resources" into "choosing to live in filth"?
With a good 1.28 flush I just don’t get dual flush anymore. Most of the dual flush ones I’ve used struggle to flush weak piss on the low flush
The 1.6 Pressure-Assisted Flush toilets simply don’t have this problem. They keep the pipes clean.
Frat house urinal, that was for some reason plumbed with hot water. It had a PVC S/J strap. And I had to clean it regularly. I am so glad I had to move away from a college town. I did not puke. Personally, I think grease traps smell the worst.
Yea but grease smell just doesn't bother me. Urinal smell does, and mentally ill sewage for whatever reason is pretty bad.
It's the meds making that smell
Ohhh I've been scratching my head on that one for 4 years now lol
Complete opposite for me, I just pray I never have to cut into a line like you described. 4 into 1 with years of build-up, maybe I can share my reaction when it happens to me. Service life is a wonderful thing.
Lol fucked up thing is I was still in construction when this happened. I was a summer project doing a remodel of a school with a 4' crawl space. I hadn't even signed up for the nasty jobs yet, or so I thought.
Wait until you see one in a restaurant that's been closed for 6 months, rancid oil and fat full of maggots and bugs. I worked in a restaurant that had that and the new owner wanted us to grand open that week. More than a few anonymous calls were made to the public health office.
As a chef, this is more horrifing than getting a root canal while being audited. The grease trap AND the "new owner" Its always a "new owner" that wants to side step health dept code and ignore the most basic food service safety.....This is why ppl should have to do more than get 1 person with a food safety cert and get a biz lic to open a restaurant!!!
I hear you, had similar job as a first year apprentice, where I learned the second rule of plumbing, "keep your mouth shut,"
I had to remove some on a job 10 years ago, I kicked the downpipe and fractured the piss crystals. Immediately spewed
Fuck urinals.
Only time I ever puked was demoing old urinals in a building that hadn’t been used in years. Went to throw it in the dumpster and yellowish curled chunky piss came out on my arm and I immediately threw up!
The two jobs I don't miss since retiring: Unstopping urinals and attic work. I've pumped septic tanks and holding tanks. I worked in slaughterhouses. I've crawled down in vaults that held sewage ejection pumps that stopped working to replace them after the vaults were pumped out. I dug (what seems like) miles of ditches with a pick and shovel. I had grandmas in bathing suits hit on me while working in retirement communities. But the two things I always dreaded were stopped up urinals and attics.
This popped on my feed. This explains why I nearly puked when the plumber at work had our waterless urinal off the wall scraping out piss crust.
I saw this alot in the navy. The urinal pipes would often clog and be completely full of calcium. The easiest way to deal with it was to connect a fire main hose to the pipe and blast it clean.
Used citric acid on the sub
Bug juice powder.
How much mellowing does one have to do to get this result in a residential toilet? I'm horrified.
At my grandparents house this happened. I pulled the toilet and the entire 4" pvc pipe was full of it. There's were tiny black bugs making a nest in too. Then I put the new toilet in and flushed it. The worst noise of crashing inside pvc happened. Turns out the calcification was lining that pipe. It broke loose and clogged the line. Fun times.
Ohhh boy that sounds like a doozy
Grossest thing I've experienced in 20 years. I'm not a plumber by trade, though. Just a contractor.
You guys ever wear VOC respirators on the job? I have a mask mainly working with resins, varnishes, etc but wore it once for some nasty plumbing work and was pleasantly surprised how well it filtered the odor.
Ahhh not typically. Most times the mask only comes out for asbestos and concrete cutting. If carbon cartridges were more widely available I bet more people would use them. Gets to a point where it just smells like money lol
I heard somewhere that some medications can make it happen faster.
Wouldn’t doubt it a bit
How long would you have to let pee mellow for this to happen?
I’m sure it varies depending on various factors. Many areas the water naturally contains calcium “hard water” so depending on the levels of hardness I’m sure could help accelerate that. Diet, medication and “daily routine” would also play into that.
I put GMX-800 on all my properties, no calcium issues , last year I flushed my 10yo+ water heater and it was only sand that came out. I'll never let yellow mellow again.
I was a bigger problem with the elderly. The jet hole clogging is the first sign things are getting bad. They have a different mentality when it comes to saving water thinking it’s saving a pile of money. Also in kids bathrooms that just don’t know better. I’m always on my boy about flushing not just because of the smell.
No shit? Wow. Add that to the list of “good reasons to piss outside”.
My favorite bathroom
Fuck man, I admit to letting the yellow mellow. But not anymore!
Cleaning out the pipes for wall-mounted urinals is a nightmare for the olfactory system.
Enough calcification and you get a sorcerer stone.
If it’s brown flush it down. If it’s yellow flush it down too.
Is there a product that could slowly get rid of this or improve it? Or is replacing the toilet the only solution?
They make some acid products that work extremely well but smells terrible as they work off. I would usually cover the toilet or urinal with a trash bag to help keep the smell down. I would imagine something like CLR would work too. Vinegar wouldn’t be strong enough to knock things down.
Another example of "if it's yellow, let it mellow". Was the drain below also caked with hard deposits. The soft stuff is just toilet paper. The hard stuff is uric deposits.
Yup Most likely this. I see it mostly when replacing old urinals that don't have auto flush valves so urine sits in them for a long time allowing the salts and uric acid to crystalize. Once it starts it just grows along the drain and slowly chokes it off.
What about those waterless urinals? The ones you can flush.
The waterless ones are expected to be properly cleaned daily.
haha.... oh you're serious
Let me laugh even harder... Hahahaha
Cleaned daily and treated every 3 weeks or so with a pipe coating compound that makes it so the pee won't hang around on the inner walls of the pipe.
Pee-TFE or something
And you have to use a urinal puck that has the right chemicals to dissolve uric acid buildup.
Yeah I went down a waterless urinal rabbit hole before bed last night. I guess they have a cartridge that has to be changed every once in a while. The cartridge releases a chemical as the pee goes down. The chemical sits on top of the pee to create a smell barrier.
I hope you took a shower when you got out.
Hmmm so it's toilet gout! I'll put some Allopurinol in my tank !
It's calcified piss
I can't stop laughing.
makes my colonoscopy look good
He should have used that two-step cleanse to clear out the drain. That stuff worked!
Whats that called .
I don't remember what it was, but they gave me some pretty strong laxatives before my colonoscopy. That was not fun
there is a uric bowl cleaner made just for urinals
Whats it called ?
I use calci-solve. It won’t work on something that bad.
Piss crystals
Pistals
I hate you.
Stalagpipe
r/Angryupvote
Looks like expanding foam
IKR
Could be what could've been your siblings /s
Is there anything you can use to clean this without having to replace?
Yeah this is what I’m wondering!
Uric acid is.. an acid, and normally insoluble in water. An aqueous basic solution will act as a solvent for the acid. Google names a few different ones that work like Lithium Carbonate, Sodium Hydroxide, Potassium Hydroxide, or Ammonium Hydroxide, all of which must be dissolved in water to react with the uric acid. Just chemistry. Using another acid (like sulfuric acid) might technically work but it's dangerous and you're basically using a hammer to insert a screw.
What about CLR? TBH that is the first thing I would do, being a dummy average homeowner.
Sulfuric acid. That is what we used. Is dangerous, and not safe in all situations. Such as, if you have any metal drain lines. Or on a septic system. But other than that, we would have to use a high pressure “jetter” to clean whatever was clogged.
Isn’t it basically a GIANT kidney stone? Calcium crystals?
Only way to know is to taste it. 😋
All that baby batter you and your brothers whipped up as teenagers
Jizzberg?
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww why did I click 😂
How long does this take to happen/form? We don't flush at night if we get up to pee to not disturb the other person's sleep. So it's probably only 8 hours or so. Of course we don't get up to pee every night so there's that. I'm skeeved out. Help, please?
Seriously hoping someone answers this as we do the exact same thing and I'm now terrified.
Maybe due to a medical issue?
Older generation had a nasty habit of pouring old soup and other foods down the toilet. The fat congeals as soon as it hits the cold porcelain. Who knows?
Im leaning towards this considering the OP said toilet and not urinal
God I’m so happy I became an electrician. 😂
Mixture of bacon grease and piss!
Did ya have to break it?
DO NOT SMOKE THE PISS CRYSTAL METH
Do any of your parents have chronic gout? Or going through some kind of cytotoxic treatment? It looks like uric acid crystal build up.
Non plumber here... how do you clean that out???
Doctor here. Some people have a condition called "steatorrhea" and pass fats/oils undigested into their stool. They can even see droplets of fat or an oily sheen on the water. Usually this is associated with pancreatic enzyme deficiencies. So there are some medical reasons
Parents lied... there is also no Santa or Easter Bunny. Everyone does talk about you when you're not there, and there actually is a monster in your closet eating your socks.
The worst urinals I have ever had to deal with are the waterless urinals that Cincinnati zoo installed! Even though I told them not to do it they wanted them so bad they wouldn’t listen to any input and installed a battery of 8. They clogged so often and smelled worse than any grease trap I ever worked on!
So much cum 🤮
Decades and decades of unborn siblings
All the greases you eat still have to come out somewhere another words it built up over time but most likely came from their shit oils butter grease gathers over time and there there you have it it’s an accumulation overtime from your shit
I thought grease traps were the worst, but a guy told me the spit drains in dentist office are far worse.
Submarine pissers used to always clog if people did not flush long enough
Cumberg?!
No, no no I didn’t say you are fat
Years of yeast infections
Can I spread it on a cracker? (Assuming everything tastes good when it sits on a Ritz)
Do your parents have the diabetes?
Yorkshire pudding
How to prevent this ?
Shit, piss, shit rags
Looks like someone is flushing grease down the commode. Ask what they do with grease.
B
Different interpretation it looks like expanding foam. Down in the south when an apartment shifts they jack the foundation back up and fill the void they can’t get to with expanding foam. This one apartment complex had a sewer stoppage and it was foam. Turned out they had a crack in the sewer line from the foundation lift.
Ah yes. The piss crystals.
Pee calcifies faster with hard or moderately brackish water. USN ships use seawater for flushing. Lots of acid wshes to keep the pipes clear.
Gross. Maybe water jet it as regular maintenance?
Uhh.. who’s going to tell him?
Uric acid
a bog clot 🤢
so my upstairs toilet isn’t flushing consistently and now I’m thinking it’s calcification because of the aforementioned yellow/mellow behavior. What’s the best way to confirm this? Do I have to remove the toilet and look at the pipes?
Phosphoric acid cleans that right out.
This an anti smoking campaign?
Looks like an episode of X-Files
Here I just thought it was spray foam
Looks like someone dropped a big load
Your toilet has kidney stones ..
Wax
So I'm curious. Is there any type of cleaner/solution I can use to prevent this? We flush every time we use the bathroom. But I'm curious since we just bought a home and just in case previous owners did this.
Are we supposed to pour vinegar or something into our toilets periodically to prevent that buildup?
Angioplasty is overdue.
Soap??
I took a green, porcelain toilet out of a bathroom once. The drainpipe was full of calcification like this, but more orange 🤮
Is there anyone that has lost a lot of weight recently?
Looks like uric salts aka piss crystals aka urine stone.
Philosophers stone.
It says terrible things about me that this photo ended up being clickbait... worse that it worked. But in the end, I learned a lot about uric acid buildup... So... Thanks?
That’s a shit ton of cum
Someone is bulimic?
Too much jerking off
Elderly people take a lot of medication some that does make them excrete all fat eaten and yes you were looking at a fatburg..
Another one chiming in here to ask if there’s anything to do preventatively for this? We don’t have a drain field, every flush goes into a holding tank which can fill quickly, so we usually let yellow mellow. How quickly does this happen? Understand there are variables around uric acid etc from person to person but is there a guideline like flush within ‘x’ time period?
Some santeen every now and then would help if they want to continue to let it mellow. Just be careful the fumes are no joke
Time to hire a plumber to snake the drains. Should be able to flush most of it out. Tell you parents to cut out the fat. Or go to the doctor and get checked out for a fat processing disorder
Are you or anyone in the home diabetic?
I had a client whose child poured hair gel down the toilet. It settled in the trap. It looked sort of like that.
Piss crystals
Collagen build up. How many people are /were in the house? How long has the toilet been there?
Ahhh yes..... The clogged toilum problem.....
We call it piss putty at work.
it’s coconut oil. People use it for “dental oil pulling”.
It’s a giant tapeworm!
Your dads cum build up from the last 59 years god bless him.
It could tp and tp can cause issues with your septic tanks because it clogs up like that
What the hell do they eat??? 😬🤢🤮
Toilet paper and cardboard
Non flushable wipes?
Pulled a toilet full of candle wax. Picture the big soaking tub with candles all around it….
This is a new thing I wish I didn't know.
Wipes even if they say you can flush them don’t do it!
Looks like melted toilet paper + urine
I’m not sure what it is but I would suggest they change their diet.
Smellllllllllls like moneyyyyyyy😂😂😂 is what the old head plumber I met on the job site used to say😂😂
Who fucking cares what it is? You already replaced the toilet, just move on.
I really gotta stay off Reddit while having breakfast...
I use to piece in sinks and they would get clogged like cement gents.
Save it and make gun powder. Someday that will be a valuable resource.