Do you flush tampons?

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Anonymous wrote:You keep saying "clogged toilet" when everyone above (myself included) are telling you the clog isn't limited to your toilet. Tampons can clog the main sewer line. You get sewage coming up every drain in your house.

All because you're too dainty to wrap a tampon in tissue and throw it away.

Have you seen the main sewer lines? It's the mountains of fat and hair that get nicely stuck there. I suggest stop taking showers, washing dishes and generally using it, because it all can clog it.

If you think of what a teeny piece of hair becomes, imagine what a tampon does. Your logic is flawed.
And, also, I don't put oil/fat down the drain either.

My logic is fine. I don't think any of it should matter for the first world sewage system. If it does, I hope we work on a better solution than "stop flushing stuff down".

And what do you propose that solution is? Redo all the sewer lines in DC so you don't have to be troubled putting stuff in the garbage? You will change your tune fast when you have sewage coming up your basement.

Why do you care if PP risks her house having a sewage problem?

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Anonymous wrote:You keep saying "clogged toilet" when everyone above (myself included) are telling you the clog isn't limited to your toilet. Tampons can clog the main sewer line. You get sewage coming up every drain in your house.

All because you're too dainty to wrap a tampon in tissue and throw it away.

A friend of mine moved into a home in Arlington. less than a year later there was a sewer backup in her house. The clog was halfway between her toilet and the street. It cost thousands of dollars to fix.
The plumbers told her never to flush anything but toilet paper. Her story of what her house was like during the sewage back up convinced me to do the same.

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Anonymous wrote:You keep saying "clogged toilet" when everyone above (myself included) are telling you the clog isn't limited to your toilet. Tampons can clog the main sewer line. You get sewage coming up every drain in your house.

All because you're too dainty to wrap a tampon in tissue and throw it away.

A friend of mine moved into a home in Arlington. less than a year later there was a sewer backup in her house. The clog was halfway between her toilet and the street. It cost thousands of dollars to fix.
The plumbers told her never to flush anything but toilet paper. Her story of what her house was like during the sewage back up convinced me to do the same.

I had to deal with those in houses and condos. None were related to stuff that was flushed: tree roots, pipe defect and a wrong connection to the main line by a neighbor. Plenty of fun experiences, with the tree roots issues during norovirus attack (it was jokes galore).